Media / April 2010
May 2010 | March 2010-
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Zumba! Zumba! Zumba!
- Wellington Scoop
- he city council phoned me this week. It wanted to know what I thought about its plan for a city-wide drinking ban 24 hours a day and seven days a week. It wasn’t actually the council who called. It was a market research company, hired by the council. But the questioning were more or less unbiased, except when the researcher told me the police prefer a city-wide ban. However he didn’t push the council view.
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- wellington-city-council
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The $2m Serepisos secret is out
- Wellington Scoop
- A month ago when we published a series of articles asking the Wellington City Council for more information about unpaid rates and ground rents, the whole town seemed to know that Terry Serepisos was involved. But the council guarded its secret.
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The new Manners Street: speed is needed if you want to object
- Wellington Scoop
- The Wellington City Council has issued a densely-packed document of 27 pages which describes changes to traffic flows and parking which are to be made in preparation for Manners Street becoming two bus lanes. The council invites everyone to study the 27 pages and send “submissions”. But this isn’t a consultation process. The council is seeking only “objections” and the “objection period” closes at the end of next week.
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Council’s ’strategic priorities’ threaten to close suburban libraries in Wadestown, Brooklyn, Island Bay and Khandallah
- Wellington Scoop
- in the Wellington City Council’s draft annual plan for 2010/11 there is a major threat to our current library system – with potential for Wadestown, Brooklyn, Island Bay and Khandallah to lose their libraries.
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- khandallah
- island-bay
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- wellington-city-council
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Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
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Councilors fail in their effort to save money on the $400,000 waterfront toilets
- Wellington Scoop
- City councilors have failed to persuade the council-owned Wellington Waterfront company to save money by reducing the cost of new public toilets. In November, the councilors instructed the company to explore how to reduce the estimated $400,000 cost of new public toilets on the waterfront at Kumutoto.
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The residents fight back
- Wellington Scoop
- A conference of residents’ associations at Parliament on Saturday decided to set up a citizens’ forum – as a direct response to the “closed shop” approach of the Wellington Mayoral Forum’s review of governance in the region.
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Does the city really need to spend $100m for a heavy metal band?
- Wellington Scoop
- What do you do if you own a waterfront events centre which has been reviled as looking like a Soviet ablution block? What do you do when almost all the reviews criticise its acoustics and sightlines? The last thing you’d do would be to consider making it bigger. Yet this is exactly what the owners of the building are talking about – “expanding the capacity” as “a possibility.”
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Age? Who’s counting?
- Wellington Scoop
- The Paramount Theatre was built in 1917, and 93 years later it’s still showing movies. Currently its main attraction is the 12th annual World Cinema Showcase, an annual programme of new international movies which includes a mesmerizing new feature by a great French director who’s almost as old as the cinema.
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Crime scene investigation: Miramar
- Wellington Scoop
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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