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A Mayor Exposes Her Agenda
What’s difficult to understand about Mayor Holborow is how she has no trouble ignoring the wishes of most of her community, yet she cannot bring herself to tell an unelected Māori person they can’t vote on formal council matters.
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Rents Under TOP
The flood of ‘free money’ in the form of the UBI will cause increased rents and inflation-driven price hikes.
Now It Is ‘Operational'
Diametrically disparate attitudes towards political interference in New Zealand’s public sector.
A Lesson Luxon Has To Learn
The ship’s GPS needs recalculating to a different direction so tracking is improved going into the election. Will this happen? I guess time will tell. The ball is in Luxon’s court.
India’s View of ‘Indigenous’ Rattles Māori Advisors
The stealthy insertion has been seen by critics as a Trojan horse for constitutional – and anti-democratic – change.
Wayne Brown’s Fundraiser Meltdown: Gangsta Mayor’s Tall Tales Exposed
Do not expect any accountability. My prediction is simple. Wayne Brown will brazen it out, bully anyone who dares speak against him and his council will roll over as usual.
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Face of the Day
Roared on by a sell-out crowd of 60,000 at London Stadium, the five-time global medallist bet the record, untouched since 1999.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… The word for today is... frank (adjective, verb, noun, noun, noun) - adjective 1: marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression 2a: unmistakably evident b: clinically evident and unmistakable verb 1a: to mark (a piece of mail) with an official signature or sign indicating the right
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders;
