Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Battle behind the scenes at OlympicsTHE Rio Olympics are over ... that's it for another four years. Hope you enjoyed them. There were some great sporting moments - not 22 Aug 08:48 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: On the road to PekanbaruAt about the same time as snow closed the Napier-Taupo highway we were in Melaka, acclimatising to the heat and quizzing locals about 22 Aug 05:10 AM
Whanganui ChronicleConservation Comment: Track funding jars with budgetSHOULDN'T WE be looking at how top rotect our under-pressure pristine landscapes? Do we need another Great Walk? Regardless of your 21 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleSteve Braunias Secret Diary of...Jonathan ColemanMONDAY The Prime Minister said, "Mate, would you like to go to Rio at the end of the day?" I said, "You bet I would, mate!" "Good," 20 Aug 12:50 AM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Vulnerable name tag not helpful for those ministry is meant to serveThere is an urgent need to tackle the problem of Vulnerable Political Strategy ... Those who proposed the name of Ministry for Vulnerable 20 Aug 12:44 AM
Whanganui ChronicleRachel Rose: Would-be councillors face a big jobWell, there were a couple of surprises when the nominations closed for local body elections. No fewer than 33 candidates have been 20 Aug 12:44 AM
Whanganui ChronicleKate Stewart: Say what?Last week I used the truism, actions speak louder than words. Whether you know them as truisms, adages or sayings you heard growing 19 Aug 04:09 AM
Whanganui ChronicleMP Chester Borrows: Whanganui gives NZ 'the slip'I guess I need to be careful what I say about Aucklanders. After all, many of the residents of New Zealand's biggest city fly or 18 Aug 03:12 AM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Wow, we have done so very wellIT HAS sometimes struck me that there are people in Whanganui who have an inferiority complex about their home town. As if they need 17 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Greenall: What about hands on homes?I'M GRATEFUL the Olympics only last a fortnight -- watching all that highly fraught determination to propel bodies, horses and bicycles 17 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleHealthy staff make a healthy businessWith our current employment rates at 90.4 per cent, a whole lot of us are spending significant time and energy in our place of work 17 Aug 12:58 AM
Whanganui ChronicleJay Kuten: Cheap shots from tabloid showTHERE are lots of good things to be said about Whanganui, and it's worth repeating that we're beautifully situated with the beating 16 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleIan McKelvie: Encouraging signs of job growthLAST week Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and Minister for Maori Development Te 16 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Simple fix for surge in call-outsFires are devastating, and capable of wiping out whole households and memories. THE number of house fires in Whanganui and district 16 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Council hopefuls plentifulTHIRTY-THREE candidates ... count them. That's 33 hopefuls standing for the chance to sit down at the Whanganui District Council 16 Aug 01:50 AM
Whanganui ChronicleGwynne Dyer: Malaria and chickensI HAD malaria once, and it was extremely unpleasant. I had been working in Yemen, but I contracted it while flying home on a Dutch 15 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Life imitates art in US politicsTWO American elections ago, during their primaries when Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton for the candidacy of the Democratic Party15 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleConservation Comment: Sceptics trying to trump scienceBy Philip McConkey AS MOST of us are aware, United States party conventions have been taking place over recent weeks. Among the many 14 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEva Bradley: When an early night is goodI remember (only just) when my night didn't even properly start until after 9pm. IT'S probably not especially cool to admit this14 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Industries leave council - and citizens - danglingNEGOTIATING with a gun to your head cannot be easy ... Is that why Whanganui chief executive Kym Fell was unwell over the weekend? Mr 13 Aug 05:18 AM
Whanganui ChronicleSteve Braunias: The Secret Diary of Andrew LittleMONDAY Monday caucus. They filed in, dragging their heels, yawning, scratching, sighing. They were a bit more animated than usual. I 13 Aug 04:15 AM
Whanganui ChronicleKate Stewart: When it comes to politics actions speak louderTHERE has been much talk of late about the "no show - no dough" proposal for Whanganui council members when it comes to attending 13 Aug 04:12 AM
Whanganui ChronicleTerry Sarten: Aussie government in denial over Nauru issuesWHAT can I say when there is so much that needs to be said? I could begin with a horsey haw-haw response to Mark Todd saying he lost 13 Aug 04:08 AM
Whanganui ChronicleChris Cresswell: Economic growth not the right pathIN medicine, something that grows until it kills its host is called a cancer. Something that is in balance, doesn't use up all its 13 Aug 04:03 AM
Whanganui ChronicleChester Borrows: Listening to the little peopleFIRST discovered in that wonderful decade, the 1950s, Kapuni has been providing natural gas for New Zealanders for more than 50 years. To 11 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: Sexist conduct needs to be buriedIN an age of professional sportspeople, every action will create a reaction because the lives of those individuals are front and centre. The 11 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: It's the taking part that countsThey are calling it Woeful Wednesday - or maybe it should be Terrible Tuesday, depending if you are on NZ time or Brazilian time. Either 10 Aug 07:59 AM
Whanganui ChronicleFrank Greenall: A Winterless taleI'VE recently had a few weeks in the Far North - the place which people who don't live there cannot refer to without prefacing it 10 Aug 05:11 AM
BusinessBusiness Zen: Lego of the old and embrace changeLego. What a truly magnificent product and a case study for all business in terms of adaptation and staying ahead of the curve. On 09 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleJay Kuten: The politics of emotionI came to my skepticism of political advertisement early in life. World War II ended shortly after my 10th birthday and I remembered 09 Aug 04:42 AM
Whanganui ChronicleFrom the Scrapheap: It's different for today's kidsIn some ways many of today's kids do have it easy. Calculators and tablets for schoolwork, mums (and dads) zooming them everywhere in cars for after-school activities, bugger-all real chores to do. But in other ways today's kids have it harder.09 Aug 01:49 AM
Whanganui ChronicleGwynne Dyer: Political choices driven by ignoranceTHE five most ignorant countries in the world are Mexico, India, Brazil, Peru and New Zealand. And the five best informed are South 08 Aug 05:30 PM
Whanganui ChronicleEditorial: No show, no dough for councillors?The issue of paying Whanganui councillors for attending meetings - or, more pertinently, not paying them when they do not turn up 08 Aug 07:11 AM
Whanganui ChronicleFred Frederikse: Millistates could mean an end to warIn the 1960s an eccentric English aristocrat, Alexander Thynn, the 7th Marquis of Bath, proposed that the world should consist of 08 Aug 07:02 AM
