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• • Supporting our Creative Economy

    • 20 Sep 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • As Bill Clinton said, “It’s the Economy Stupid!” There has been very little said during this election campaign about our economy, but without a thriving economy, and increasing productivity, we cannot afford all the other things we want. My vision is for Wellington to be the best city in the world to live in. A […]
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• • Fixing the pipes – and spending $2.7 billion

    • 13 Sep 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • Shortly after being elected Mayor, just before Christmas 2019, I received a call telling me a major wastewater pipe had broken on Dixon Street. I promptly headed to the site to meet Wellington Water management and contractors. It was the first of several well reported pipe failures in rapid succession. Some were old pipes, some […]
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• • Getting things done for Wellington

    • 11 Aug 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • We all know it’s been an incredibly challenging 3 years. Pipes which had given no hint of collective problems, started breaking almost immediately after the 2019 election. Shortly afterwards the biggest global pandemic in a century arrived to turn our lives upside down. Covid is clearly still significantly impacting us all. It has played a […]
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• • Mayor Andy Foster confirms seeking a second term

    • 7 Jul 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • Our extraordinary city needs a leader who is 100% committed to it and our people and gets the important things done – and I have, even in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. I am 100% committed to our City – anyone who knows me knows that. They know I understand the complexities and interconnections. This is not […]
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• • Welcome back to our beloved St James!

    • 30 Jun 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • It was a huge day for Wellington yesterday to officially reopen the St James. She looks beautiful. The audience included most of the people in the group that formed in the late 80s / early 90s to save the St James from demolition. Heroes all of them. Rangimoana Taylor, Miranda Harcourt Siobhan Proctor and I […]
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    St James Theatre, 77, Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Lets Get Wellington Really Moving!

    • 28 Jun 2022
    • Andy Foster
    • Today is a big day for Wellington! Big LGWM announcement this morning alongside Minister of Transport and Minister of Infrastructure confirming: 1. Second Mt Victoria Tunnel 2. Basin Reserve Solution – grade separation between North – South and East – West traffic, and very beautiful design too 3. Clarity about the route for Mass Rapid […]
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    Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • You have told us – now lets do it!

    • 17 Oct 2020
    • Andy Foster
    • Thank you Wellington for your feedback on the future of our Central Library! Your input has been thoughtful, informative, and your views have been diverse.
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    Wellington Central Library, Civic Square, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Town Hall strengthening – huge and complex but going well

    • 1 Oct 2020
    • Andy Foster
    • This week included a visit to our Town Hall to see progress on the strengthening.
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• • $7.6 million in new funding for world-leading Predator Free Wellington

    • 7 Sep 2020
    • Andy Foster
    • Absolutely delighted today to join Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage MP, and Predator Free Wellington Director James Willcocks at Otari-Wilton’s Bush for Eugenie’s announcement of $7.
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• • Pandemic Response, Recovery and Rebuilding – Together

    • 15 May 2020
    • Andy Foster
    • We are in uncharted waters, going through something humanity has never experienced before.
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• • A chance to transform Wellington

    • 22 Apr 2020
    • Andy Foster
    • To help mitigate some of the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government asked for worthwhile projects to reduce unemployment. It received more than 1500 ‘shovel-ready’ public and private sector projects from around our country, including Wellington. This is our opportunity to transform Wellington. The thinking today is the same thinking behind the important […]
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• • Andy chooses Cr Sarah Free as Wellington’s Deputy Mayor

    • 25 Oct 2019
    • Andy Foster
    • Wellington Mayor-elect Andy Foster says he has chosen Motukairangi-Eastern Ward Councillor Sarah Free as his Deputy Mayor for the 2019-2022 triennium. Mayor Foster describes Cr Free as an experienced and personable City Councillor who will bring the necessary leadership skills to the Deputy Mayoralty role. “It has always been a pleasure working with Sarah over […]
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• • EU copyright: as far as we’re concerned, link away

    • 13 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • European Union—www.
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• • Navigating the Julian Assange arrest

    • 12 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I’m finding it disturbing that some of the talking heads here we’ve seen are giving the Julian Assange story the same bias that much of the US mainstream media are.
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• • Facebook: Kiwi lives don’t matter

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • As someone who read Confucius as a young man, and was largely raised on his ideas, free speech with self-regulation is my default position—though when it becomes apparent that people simply aren’t civilized enough to use it, then you have to consider other solutions.
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• • Bypass the media, Carlos Ghosn tells it as it is

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I haven’t blogged much about Carlos Ghosn, though I’ve Tweeted aplenty since his arrest last November.
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• • When the writers don’t check the Cobra 11 universe

    • 10 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • This is how big an Alarm für Cobra 11: die Autobahnpolizei nerd I am.
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• • Work as if it’s 2001

    • 6 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Asus One beauty to having new tech, even if it stretched my budget, is how my use of the desktop and laptop computers is more efficient.
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• • Fighting intolerance is the key to a tolerant society

    • 1 Apr 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Hat tip to Mauricio Freitas. Source: Pictoline. pic.twitter.com/eJVhZxA4ZW — Merlin Ks (@Merlin3ks) July 14, 2018    Quite simple, isn’t it? I sense my parents’ generation (who were kids during WWII) would have understood this, but I worry about my generation and the ones following.
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• • Alarm für Cobra 11: why the inconsistent season numbering?

    • 29 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • RTL Above: From the first episode after the half-season break, ‘Endstation’.
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• • The end of the long Instagram video

    • 27 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • After the last 11 months, only two Instagram users—myself and an Indonesian user called TryAink—uploaded videos of over a minute (his were up to four).
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• • In the wake of terrorism in your own country

    • 20 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Above: Flowers at the Islamic Centre in Kilbirnie, Wellington on Monday.
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    Kilbirnie, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Autocade turns 11 as the web turns 30

    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • The latest model to appear on Autocade today: the Mazda CX-30.
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• • After driving automatic and manual trucks, the manual still wins for me

    • 5 Mar 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I rented a couple of trucks over the last few days, and I’m surprised that automatics have taken such a hold in this country.
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• • The Singer of desktop PCs

    • 24 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I never planned to spend quite this much on computers in the first two months of the year.
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• • The Singer of desktop PCs

    • 24 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • I never planned to spend quite this much on computers in the first two months of the year.
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• • More reminders that Google lies

    • 21 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Nest/Creative Commons We’ve been here countless times before since last decade.
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• • More reminders that Google lies

    • 21 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Nest/Creative Commons We’ve been here countless times before since last decade.
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• • Autocade passes 15 million page views, as SUVs and EVs take hold

    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Over the weekend, I noticed Autocade’s page-view stat had ticked over the 15,000,000 mark.
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• • Autocade passes 15 million page views, as SUVs and EVs take hold

    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Jack Yan
    • Over the weekend, I noticed Autocade’s page-view stat had ticked over the 15,000,000 mark.
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