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Letters to the Editor: buses, tourism and the hospital

Fare hikes unfair. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON

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Letters to the Editor: buses, tourism and the hospital

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including making buses accessible and affordable, the new tourism slogan, and the cost of hospital maintenance.

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Quality, autonomy, and everything going brown

David Seymour samples one of his $3 school lunches. Photo: RNZ

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Quality, autonomy, and everything going brown

If the offspring ever get organised enough to write the damning story of my mothering, school lunches are bound to feature.

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Superior boat in good hands

Start of the first Sanders Cup race of 14-foot dinghies: Iona (Otago, left) in the lead followed...

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Superior boat in good hands

The 1925 Sanders Cup contests will be generally voted by yachtsmen as the most exciting of the series of races between the 14-footers yet held in the dominion.

Tariffs and Trump’s hot-metal debacle

US tariffs have implications for Bluff’s Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Tariffs and Trump’s hot-metal debacle

The US return to tariffs has ramifications for us all, Andrew Perchard writes.

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Arch enemy in Wānaka

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Arch enemy in Wānaka

Coalition ministers win considerable sympathy when they decry the impediments to growth and development. Consenting (gaining permission) is so often difficult, time-consuming and expensive.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Wanted: reader seeks more ads in the personal classifieds

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Wanted: reader seeks more ads in the personal classifieds

Running classified ads is, like posting letters, finding a parking space and watching five-day cricket tests, a threatened activity.

The Microsoft Copilot money grab

No help requested or required ... But try saying no to Copilot. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Microsoft Copilot money grab

A new innovation has John Lapsley and millions of others utterly riled.

Come for dinner and enjoy real Wānaka fare

Come for dinner and enjoy real Wānaka fare

Sir Ian Taylor issues an invitation to dinner to Chris Bishop.

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‘Disgusted’ by Milford plan

Bowen Falls / Hineteawa at Milford Sound which, in 1925, were under threat from a proposal to...

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‘Disgusted’ by Milford plan

To the editor: Sir, I was surprised and disgusted to read in your issue of this morning a paragraph to the effect that the Minister of Public Works had approved the granting of a licence to a...

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More talk on supermarket competition

Minister of Finance Nicola Willis speaks during a Manawatū Business Chamber event last month....

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More talk on supermarket competition

If politicians talking about taking a big stick to the supermarket duopoly worked, we would have seen major change years ago.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Maccas, Net Zero and recycling

Recycling is not the place for plastic lids. Photo: ODT files

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Letters to the Editor: Maccas, Net Zero and recycling

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the McDonald's application in Wānaka, the DCC's zero carbon plan, and removing lids from recycling.

Freshwater claim offers hope to Otago

Cool, maybe clear water — The Manuherekia. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Freshwater claim offers hope to Otago

Court action highlights the state of Otago freshwater, Murray Neilson writes.

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Short phone calls which will resolve very little

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Short phone calls which will resolve very little

It is taking Donald Trump a little longer than the 24 hours he said he would need to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, but his 90-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday comes as no surprise.

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Lasting progress the legacy of a distasteful violent incident

The Black Ferns Sevens’ haka. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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Lasting progress the legacy of a distasteful violent incident

The Black Ferns Sevens’ haka is one of my favourites. Disciplined, passionate and proud.

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Carriages go down bank

Two railway carriages, one on its side, rest on an embankment following a derailment near...

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Carriages go down bank

A shunting accident at Henderson, Auckland, on Saturday afternoon resulted in two carriages breaking away from the train and falling over a bank, while a third carriage sustained damage.

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Navigating choppy green waters

Tertiary Education and Skills Minister Penny Simmonds. Photo: RNZ

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Navigating choppy green waters

Strange things are happening in the environmental world.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Trump, Gaza and PC gone mad

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Letters to the Editor: Trump, Gaza and PC gone mad

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including Trump's plan to buy Gaza, New Zealand's embarassing silence, and the cost of a foul-mouthed CEO.

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