Latest from WC - Opinion

Letters: Want more taxes, anyone?

More bureaucracy, heaps more rhetoric but much less real council control.

Terry Sarten: Checking the power play list

Competition for the No 10 Downing St address is all on

Have we lost the art of conversation?

I used to think that "grunting" was a modern dialect reserved for moody, hormonal teens

Letters: Pay council staff a living wage

"Our council should be setting a standard and leading the way for other employers."

Letters: Bus users shut out in cold

"Some of our most vulnerable citizens use this bus service. They deserve better."

Alan Taylor: WDC prudent on rates rises

One forms a very different viewpoint on rates when sitting in council chambers.

Mark Ward: Whanganui & Partners supports projects that benefit Castlecliff

I was excited by the community leadership driving the area's changes

Frank Greenall: Merit in pyramid scheme

Underpinning a mammoth workforce was an equally mammoth support industry.

Letters: Legal marijuana negatives

Colorado's economy has, however, greatly benefited from the legalising of marijuana.

Letters: Choosing how and when to die not suicide for terminal patients

The terminally ill know they are going to die. It's only a choice of how and when.

Frank Greenall: Budget puts wellbeing first

It's false language used to describe false economics, but most don't see any dichotomy.

Letters: Smoke out disadvantaged

At the end of the day, smoking is a personal choice and should remain so.

Letters: Bridge fit for last century

The bridge may well be safe, but safe and adequate are hugely different things.

Letters: Homeless suffer prejudice

Perhaps it's Palliative Care who need to "take their heads out of the sand".

Letters: Avoiding agonising death

We must change our attitude to death and discuss it openly with family and friends.

Reward artists for economic contribution

Can Whanganui be the best place in New Zealand for an arts career?