No one likes spending their paycheck on taxes.

COMMENT: How in 2018 can you single out a race and offer them something no one else gets.

COMMENT: Nat leader's limp Budget-day monologue may have helped someone in the wings.

We should embrace one law for all, a reader says

How following the royals helped me feel connected to my British kin.

Tauranga MP and Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges responds to the Budget.

Tauranga Labour list MP Jan Tinetti shares her thoughts on the Budget announcement.

There is some limited but welcome new thinking, Bryan Gould says

The reduction of the KiwiBuild policy disappoints.

COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.

School balls are a highlight of the year but can be an expensive experience.

Not all able-bodied unemployed are able to get work, writes one reader.

Here's to the happy couple!

The Government should look at supporting pensioners into kiwifruit work, a reader says

If you had the opportunity to meet anyone alive on the planet today, who would that be?

Help us help the Tauranga Community Foodbank.

Should the kiwifruit industry lift wages?

One would wear one's diamonds, but they slipped down the back of the sofa

Regardless of voter turnout, the museum vote was still a no, a reader says

The empty bowling club is a missed opportunity, a reader says.

Social media has a widespread influence - including in the political arena

How many lives could have been saved if SH2 was safer?

Be wary of false teachers, a reader says.

Fewer marriages - and fewer divorces

Once you break an election promise it becomes so much easier to break more, a reader says

Opinion: The result of a referendum on whether the city should have a museum.

Can any good come from a mountain bike crash?

Advice for a soon-to-be stay-at-home Dad who probably doesn't want or need it.

Good customer service makes a difference.

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