American RoadtripTauranga residents Kay and Mike Travelling America on a Harley Davidson After a 12 hour endurance ride spanning 812kms in 40 degrees and umpteen bottles of Powerade we arrived in San Ontonio around 7pm. Exhausted and no accommodation... Read More

Financewith Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance On the back of rising food demand and falling or stagnant food supply, prices of food are rising to record levels. If you look at Egypt, Libya, Iran, Syria, the uprisings there were in part, caused by... Read More

Josh HoskinSmart Money [email protected] One of my favourite quotes from Jim Morrison in the American Prayer album is: 'Did you know freedom exists in a school book?” What Morrison is referring to is that freedom can have many guises... Read More

Sideline SidSports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Tauranga City is alive this week with thousands of youngsters, who have again descended on the city for the AIMS Games. In nine short years the AIMS Games has become one of the biggest... Read More

John ArtsAbundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz Remember the children's song Dry Bones? The chorus starts with 'the toe bone connected to the heel bone”. Of course this was written as a spiritual rather than anatomical song but it makes a great... Read More

Vet's VoiceKathleen Linpus www.vetcaretauranga.co.nz If your pet gets lost, how do you find them? We have many lost animals brought in to our clinic, especially cats who can often end up stowing away in removal trucks, covered boats and tradesmen's... Read More

Weather Eyewith John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of September have been recorded in Tauranga since 1898, except for 1904, 1907, 1908, and 1909. The graph shows the range of rainfalls from an extreme high of 274mm in 1973 to a low of only 16mm... Read More

Pete MorrisArt blogger www.sunlive.co.nz Kristian Lomath is a true artist. Lovers of art in the Bay of Plenty will soon have the opportunity to see his new work in an exhibition aptly named 'Book Work'. The story behind Book Work began in 2005/6... Read More

Brian RogersRogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz What you do in the privacy of your own homes, between consenting adults, is of no concern to the rest of us. Unless it involves farm critters or small rodents, and even then, the concern is for the welfare... Read More

News HoundAdy & Flo www.sunlive.co.nz Now Flo is not really a puppy, having turned one, she's getting quite mature and has stopped chewing up things. Yeah right. The boss was recapping on the past year of her puppyhood and reckons he's gotten off... Read More

Cr Bill FaulknerFaulkners Corner www.sunlive.co.nz The double speak of some politicians in successive governments can be breath-taking. This week Gerry Brownlee extolled the virtues of a new stadium for Christchurch. This despite him acknowledging... Read More

Ian McLeanSpokesperson for the Green Party Our economic system assumes that the environment can and will maintain itself, with a bit of help from the RMA. Evidence that the assumption is wrong includes polluted rivers, frequent flooding, silt-laden... Read More