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Pandemic Parenting: Sometimes, our kids have more than adolescent angst

Comment: Being a teenager is hard enough without the world in freefall.

Zizi Sparks: Volunteers keep the wheels turning

Comment: Spare a thought for those who give their time freely.

Zizi Sparks: Return of Covid-19 to Bay of Plenty nothing to worry about

Comment: Return of Covid-19 to Bay of Plenty disappointing but inevitable.

Derek Cheng: Inexcusable and embarrassing - PM should be livid

The border failures are an embarrassment to the Government and its health officials.

Patrick Walsh: A yes vote on cannabis will be a disaster

COMMENT: Secondary school principal Patrick Walsh has his say on the cannabis referendum.

Comment: The one MP taking the fight to the Govt - and it's not Todd Muller

Todd Muller coasts while David Seymour puts up a fight, writes Kate Hawkesby.

Steve Braunias: The secret diary of the Ardern Gang

COMMENT: You know how the Marshall feels about the rules.

Steve Braunias: The secret diary of The Muller Gang

COMMENT: A Wild Western tale of Parliament Hill.

New All Black captain Sam Cane: 'I could have lost use of my legs'

New All Blacks captain shaped by rugby greats Richie McCaw, Kieran Read and Liam Messam.

Dawn Picken: Slow slog of lockdown is draining

The last steps of the marathon are the hardest.

Bryan Gould: Pity the poor Americans

Comment: Americans have no one but themselves to blame for Donald Trump.

Zizi Sparks: City leaders should take Covid-19 pay cut

COMMENT: Taking a pay cut should be a no-brainer for elected officials and council chiefs.

Dawn Picken: Why we can't be productive during lockdown

COMMENT: Building resilience may be the most productive thing we do in lockdown.

Benefits of lockdown go beyond health and safety

We're forced out of convenience bubbles - and that can't be a bad thing.

Bryan Gould: Lessons the pandemic can teach us

We are just another part of the natural world and are subject to the way it works.

Carmen Hall: Drivers who flee the police are idiots

Police plea for fleeing drivers in the Bay of Plenty to stop.