Blogs / June 2009
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Post-Script on The LTCCP 2009 -2019
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- LTCCP 2009-2019 voting record on some big expenditure items in the worst recession in 100 years. For the record I was joined by Councillors Steph Cook, Leonie Gill and Helene Ritchie in opposing the continued switch of commercial rates onto the residents rates bill.
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A loving farewell to one helluva cat
- CataBlog
- Today just after 1pm, we said a final goodbye to our wonderful, amazing, handsome hunk of Man-Cat, Ratty.
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Harbour Cities
- Eye of the Fish
- It was great to see the Dominion Post actually use some of its reporters to explore some of the local issues in the Weekend, with a two whole (almost) full pages on developments on the Wellington waterfront.
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A question of affordability and rates for wellington city / why we have failed with our ltccp 2009-2019
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- The following is taken from “IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF NEW ZEALAND” BETWEEN WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL Appellant AND WOOLWORTHS NEW ZEALND LIMITED AND OTHERS….
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Miss Moppett finally gets a home!
- CataBlog
- In just about the best news ever, our fabulous Miss Moppett has finally found the people worthy of becoming her devoted slaves and has a new home! It's been 3 and a half years since she first came to us...
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Blunder over the wires means weekend trolley buses will not resume. Why am I not surprised?
- Poneke
- Weekend trolley bus operations will not resume, despite Wellington ratepayers and taxpayers paying $9 million a year to run these expensive buses seven days a week from first bus to last.
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Terrible design
- Eye of the Fish
- I’d heard about these things being installed at Auckland Airport, and I just thought that was typical Jafa bad design in that godawful domestic airport of theirs, but knock me down with a wet kipper: we’ve now got them here in Wellington as well.
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Wellington International Airport, Coutts Street, Rongotai, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Thorndon Tavern : Thai Takeaway
- Eye of the Fish
- Thorndon’s quite the place to be you know. But there is an eyesore that is troubling the residents, above and beyond such other eyesores such as the American Embassy, the abortion of a supermarket carpark, the ugly lumpy tower of the Police Association, the row of non-descript office towers etc: yes, its the Thorndon Tavern.
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110 Molesworth Street, Wellington
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OPT all GO for APT
- Eye of the Fish
- In case you haven’t seen the news, a small item from the Council website today says: Mayor Welcomes Overseas Terminal Decision
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The Wellington Ukulele Orchestra
- The Sidestrip
- A heartbreaking video to the title track from the Heartache EP, by the Wellington International Ukulele.
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Freedom to act
- Te Papa's blog
- The other night we hung the two McCahons we bought last year – Scared and Mondrian’s last chrysanthemum. They’ve gone up in Toi Te Papa.
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Buses to go through Manners Mall
- Bryan Pepperell - Back To The Future
- Hi – I’m sorry to say we lost this battle today. Those voting against opening Manners mall to buses were: Councillors Bryan Pepperell, Leonie Gill, Hayley Wain and Jo Coughlan Special thanks to the Facebook Group Save Manners Mall and WGTN LOVE MANNERS MALL (Maria)
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Manners closes, but what will open?
- Eye of the Fish
- If you have read the Dominion Post article on Manners, you will know that the plans to un-mall Manners Mall have just been passed. If you have read the Dominion Post article, you will also not know the full story. Whether due to the breaking nature of the announcement, or somewhat slanted journalistic intent, the dom doesn’t make mention of the news that the lower end of Cuba St down to Wakefield will be redeveloped as a pedestrian-oriented public space.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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