Inside Wellington newsitems

• • Joining Inside Wellington

    • 20 Apr 2021
    • Inside Wellington
    • Mid-December 2020, following a very long and arduous year, I had written a lenghty, articulated article about Wellington growing pains.
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• • Wellington’s Growing Pains might be the death of it, Shelly Bay, the last straw for local democracy

    • 2 Dec 2020
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    • As some of you know, I’ve started working back in the city, at least three days a week, after some months of relative isolation on the farm.
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• • Is it time to bring in commissioners to manage Wellington City Council?

    • 2 Dec 2020
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    • Wellington Southerly StormIt seems that Wellington City Council is failing to do its job.
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• • Postcards from Taumata Island: Spring, national elections loom, watching Wellington CBD suffer from a distance

    • 3 Sep 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • Spring has arrived in the Wairarapa with grass growing (it never really stopped over what was an warmer than usual winter) and everything starting to flower.
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• • Postcards from Taumata Island: GWRC under fire at Taumata Island, the NZTA PR Department moves on Wairarapa transport, a visit to Wellington

    • 8 Jul 2020
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    • Trouble in paradise with our neighbour trespassing the Greater Wellington City Council from his property, which as I have written about before, contains the Taumata (Gretel) Lagoon.
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    • wairarapa
    • transport
    • wellington
    • art
    • sport
  
  

• • Postcards from Taumata Island: Winter doldrums, worries for Wellington, no confidence in Carterton District Council, and dangerous roads

    • 29 Jun 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • Low lying mist early in the morning is a constant now, as the winter doldrums peak with just a few days before we start to see the light returning at either end of the day.
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    • wellington
  
  

• • How not to fix a dying CBD: Do your duty public servants, return to your battery farm offices, sacrifice yourselves

    • 10 Jun 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • Telephone operators, MO All the dinosaurs have been out over the last few days trying to bully public servants and other staff back to working in less than humane conditions in CBD offices because the retail sector is suffering.
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    • retail
  
  

• • Postcards from Taumata Island: Winter arrives, South Wairarapa Politics, new challenges

    • 6 Jun 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • We have been here for a month now.
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• • Postcard from Taumata Island; Your foreign correspondent from the Wairarapa checks in

    • 24 May 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • Gretel Lagoon – Our bottom paddocks on the left Three weeks after moving from Strathmore to Taumata Island, outside Carterton, population eighty, I’ve finally come up for air.
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• • Will Wellington City Council have commissioners appointed?

    • 29 Apr 2020
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    • News over the last week that Sue Wells is being bought in to try and help a Council that appears on the face of it to have become tribal, and not in the right way.
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• • Wellington Council priorities: down with the convention centre, long live the shovel-ready, up the workers, let’s upgrade Wellington while we have the chance

    • 14 Apr 2020
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    • The Council is coming under increased pressure to reduce its spending and re-prioritise current projects to better position the city for a very, very long recovery period.
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• • WCC in austerity mode, or, “let them eat Lego blocks…”

    • 8 Apr 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • EDIT: Since publishing, the WCC has announced they will be taking a 10% pay cut.
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• • Wellington: Day Seven – Marketing vs Messaging

    • 1 Apr 2020
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    • After nearly a week of the lockdown, the city appears to be faring quite well.
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• • Social media misinformation, sources of truth, in this the time of our pandemic

    • 26 Mar 2020
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    • A third of the world is now in some kind of lockdown Let’s have a chat about misinformation.
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    • media
  
  

• • Strange days, living in a city in lockdown, being safe & kind, and looking to a new Wellington

    • 25 Mar 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • A quarter of the world’s population is now living under some form of lockdown Good morning readers.
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    • wellington
  
  

• • The WCC week that was; Taskforce Waterspout grows, fiddling on the edges, a crime wave in Miramar, Shelly Bay raises its head, and a “know nothing, do nothing” Council on the cards?

    • 28 Feb 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • In the last week, the Wellington City Councillors have been extremely busy.
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    • miramar
    • wcc
    • councillors
    • water
    • crime
    • wellington
  
  

• • How Wellington got into this watery mess; Taskforce Waterspout, Inquiries, and Central Government MIA

    • 24 Feb 2020
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    • The worst kept secret in Wellington is that the Council has under-invested in water infrastructure, in fact, pretty much in all infrastructure, particularly over the past decade.
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    • art
    • government
    • water
    • wellington
  
  

• • WCC water crisis proactive meeting results in PR fail; is the water issue going to be swept under the next long-term plan rug?

    • 19 Feb 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • While it was a positive step by the Mayor and Councillors to hold an urgent meeting concerning the ongoing sewage and water issues, Wellington is fast becoming the City of Fountains; it was let down by a lack of a plan and poor PR.
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    • councillors
    • issues
    • water
    • wellington
  
  

• • Wellington city in crisis; leadership absent, panic setting in (long read)

    • 16 Feb 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • I am occasionally accused, rightfully, of being pessimistic.
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• • Why the Wellington City Council finds itself in stasis; it’s about governance, not management

    • 10 Feb 2020
    • Inside Wellington
    • In my last article, I wrote about the Council facing stasis after 120 days of being in office.
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    • Tagged as:
    • art
    • wellington