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Jane Trask: Have your say, go vote
We should all care enough about our place to vote.
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How long is Daylight Saving an excuse?
It was an excuse to be late on Monday, but how long can we use the lost hour as one?
Zizi Sparks: If you don't vote, don't complain
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Rachel Stewart: Freed from hope but not hopeless
COMMENT: By clinging to hope people become deluded that things might change.
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Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
Letters: Passenger rail is not out of the question
Bay of Plenty readers have their say.
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Great Thunberg urgently beats the climate change drum.
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