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Significant Ōtaki to Levin expressway on the back-burner

Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie bemoans lack of vision around transport and roading.

Comment: Can PM Ardern avoid a Lermontov style disaster?

The open waters of Cook Strait beckoned. What could possibly go wrong?

Rachel Stewart: Farm leaders in dance over freshwater plan

COMMENT: Finally long-delayed "action plan for freshwater" discussion document has arrived

Comment: Climate change - the game isn't over

What if we stop pretending that the climate apocalypse is not going to sweep us all away.

Jay Kuten: Reality TV and American war and peace

War in Afghanistan has no rationale, no actual legal basis, no clear reachable objective.

Comment: Turakina and Whangaehu backbone of the farming community

Turakina is more than one of those places which you pass through on the way to somewhere.

Letters: Vision needed to grow Whanganui economy

Your letters: Where's the vision for growing Whanganui's economy?

Letters: Diseases spread by false propaganda

Your letters

Call for New Zealand Wars remembrance day

COMMENT: It is not a pretty or honourable history, but we should honour it and the dead.

Terry Sarten: There's a fraction too much fiction

The collision of Harry Potter and religious zeal sparks this week's Terry Sarten column.

Rob Rattenbury: Retirement brings a new set of addictions

Commentator Rob Rattenbury contemplates new addictions since retirement.

Letters: Taking a first step

Somewhere down the track people will ask what you did about climate change.

Frank Greenall: Bring out the local bodies

Commentator Frank Greenall's take on the local body elections.

Comment: Rushing climate change legislation is risky

Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie checks in from out in the field.

Letters: Costs of measles rise

So far, the 350 people hospitalised with measles have cost taxpayers more than $800,000.

Rachel Stewart: Nope, I'm not taking a guilt trip in my V8

COMMENT: Gripe about my dream car and I'll rip the Velcro off your Tevas.

Letters: Traffic-free cycle ride wonderful

The whole of human history will undertake a violent swerve. -- L.E. Fitton

Russell Bell: Why there's no 'I' in team

Best business advice from local consultant Russell Bell.