Latest from RDP - Opinion

Opinion: Shelter shows love trumps hate

Opinion: A local man's plan to help the homeless is a reminder that love trumps hate.

Street view: Thoughts on rapid rail service

We ask locals their thoughts on a daily regional passenger rail service.

Letters: Time to retire town clock's mechanism

Letters: Readers share their views on the town clock, the National Party and boot camps.

Opinion: Parents, not children, should be the ones in boot camps

Opinion: It's not criminal youth who need boot camps, it's the adults who raise them.

What's to be done with naughty youth?

Why are our young males disaffected?

Opinion: A youth home in your backyard

How would you feel if a home for remand youths was to open in your backyard?

Opinion: What price a water tax?

How far should we go in setting a price on a resource that all own or none owns?

Rachel Stewart: Hysteria over water policy pitiful

COMMENT: Labour's water policy is not as difficult to understand as you might think.

Opinion: Collective steps up for community

Opinion: Not everyone has the will to make a difference in their community.

Letters: What has Ardern achieved?

Readers' views on Jacinda Ardern and speeding drivers in Koutu.

Opinion: Diana tapes should remain private

Opinion: I can't understand the continued worldwide fascination in anything Diana.

Street view: What do you think of Metiria Turei resigning as co-leader of the Green Party?

We ask locals their thoughts on Ms Turei's resignation from the Green Party.

Opinion: Turei misread price of telling a lie

Turei's resignation was the right thing, but will it save the Greens?

Letters: A warm welcome for new citizens

A reader says thanks to the mayor for her warm welcome at the citizenship ceremony.

Letters: Council must learn from mud blunder

Reaction to the Korean mud saga continues.

Opinion: Time to focus on policies, not personalities

Opinion: So far this election campaign it seems to be all about individuals.