I just love reading the letters to the editor each week and I also contribute on occasion, but I also know that all the criticism can be rather painful. You see,... Read More

So Taxinda has struck again. A sewage tax on visitors. We are already seen as one of the greediest countries in the world to visit due to high hotel prices and food... Read More

Rogers Rabbits, I had to write and tell you how much I agreed with your article in the latest Weekend Sun (June 15). At the time of the last council elections I... Read More

Rogers Rabbits (June 15), like you I am against a grandiose museum. Twenty to 30 odd years ago the Pioneer Village was a thriving entity, but suddenly lost all/most... Read More

I do a regular walk three to five times a week. On each trip I pick up plastic rubbish. And we worry about the sea being full of it. Whoever is discarding it so... Read More

At a recent gathering of 40 residents at the village I reside in, a question was tabled: ‘How many residents possess a computer?' A show of hands showed that... Read More

The Long Term Plan of Tauranga City Council initially proposed that by 2028 total ratepayer debt would increase from around $350m to $983m, a 280 per cent increase.... Read More

Driving home from Tauranga to Whakatane the other night, I saw the Bright Lights. Though my life was in danger, it wasn't the Bright Lights of the End. It was the... Read More

It's that time of year again where we stand on the sidelines of our children's sports games and shout our encouragement to our kids and their fellow team members.... Read More

Where's all the blustering from across the ditch this week? Where are the Peter Fitzsimmons' and his ilk? Where's all the jingoism and breast-beating.? Let's look... Read More

It may seem like a serious problem for the kiwifruit industry, but come on, why would you want to work for low wages, or want to carry others who have never seen... Read More

Tauranga City Councillor John Robson campaigned on a platform to ‘Stop the Museum'. At the TCC meeting to conclude this subject, he attempted to slightly amend... Read More