Our May/June BayBuzz is now online.
Inside the Bay’s thriving horse culture. Is the $600 million dam project moving too fast? Are Hawke’s Bay business groups emerging from growing pains? Why no university in HB? Will Te Aute College survive? Should Hawke’s Bay remain GE Free? Should Hastings be fluoride free? What is a ‘home’ in Hawke’s Bay? Plus volunteering , HB writing and high-tech gaming.
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A HORSE IS A HORSE, OF COURSE
Mark Sweet takes an inside look at Hawke’s Bay’s horse culture
CHAMBER CHALLENGED TO GET BACK TO BASICS
Keith Newman discovers HB’s business leader groups get taste of own medicine
LAND ISSUES UNDERMINE TE AUTE LEARNING LEGACY
Keith Newman asks if Te Aute College can recover its financial, moral and academic mana
‘CALL-IN’ VERSUS ‘TIME OUT’ ON DAM
By Tom Belford
More voices join effort to slow down the Council’s process in the interest of environmental and financial prudence.
COUNCILS SET ANNUAL BUDGETS
By Jessica Soutar Barron
What projects determine what your rates will be next year?
NEWMAN MEMORIAL DAM
By Brett Monteith
Editorial cartoon
INSIDE HAWKE’S BAY POLITICS, CIRCA MAY
By Tom Belford
Candidates emerging. Tickets too.
FIGHTING TALK
By Keith Newman
NOW, Hawke’s Bay telco challenges big duopoly
‘RE-GROOVING’ THE AGRICULTURAL MAFIA
By Phyllis Tichinin
If you want more productive farming, love your microbes
KO AU TE AWA, KO TE AWA KO AU
Ngati Kahungunu
“I am the river and the river is me” … iwi perspective on HB water issues
THE ‘F’ WORD
By Jessica Soutar Barron
OUT, DAMNED SPOT
By Paul Paynter
GMOs … LIKE POSSUMS, RABBITS AND GORSE
By Pure Hawke’s Bay
WHY DOESN’T HAWKE’S BAY HAVE A UNIVERSITY?
By Claire Hague
BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES: Volunteering for Cranford Hospice
By Kay Bazzard
THE HAWKE’S BAY HOUSE … JUST ANOTHER OPEN HOME?
By Anthony Vile
KING OF THE BLOCKHEADS PROPELLED TO GAME FAME
By Keith Newman
HAWKE’S BAY’S LITERARY PURSUITS
By Lizzie Russell