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Opinion: Protect our fertile land
Opinion: Protecting our unique fertile land resource is essential.

Editorial: Spotlight again on event liquor
Are the mean police having too much fun at the cricket?

Mark Aspden: Technology - let's run with it
The statistics on participation in sport by our secondary school children are interesting.

Upholding golf's integrity cardinal, cute or not
LPGA was right in upholding integrity of golf in US pro's 'Lexi-daisical' approach

Katie Kenyon: Disappointed at lack of respect for farmers
Open letter to Prime Minister Bill English from a shepherd from Central Hawke's Bay.

Defending the nation's farmers
Porangahau woman Katie Kenyon wrote this letter to Prime Minster Bill English.

RMA reforms: Dr Smith's Frankenstein
The RMA has been amended so many times it has become incoherent, says Martin Williams.

Tim Gilbertson: The end of the world is at hand
Tim Gilbertson's Casual Obsever column

Simon Nixon: Horticulturalists have a role to play
Peter Beaven chastises Hastings councillors for agreeing to provide land for housing.

Bruce Bisset: Memo to Greens: Get Active!
My many Green friends will doubtless be howling, but I'm not repentant.

Tom Belford: Port financing needs study, not slogans
"Shallow and shallower" - politicising of Napier Port's future development.

Water quality problems will not magically disappear
When learning to hunt the first thing taught is to identify your target.

Editorial: let's finish airport terminal
Anyone would have been buoyed by the amazing financial results of the airport company.

Chris Perley: GM Food - it's about economics and democracy
The GM debate is heating up in Hawke's Bay, writes Chris Perley.

Linda Hall: We have to take off kid gloves
Linda Hall on dealing with crime committed by children.

Peter Beaven: When will they ever learn
Hawkes Bay has the good fortune to be the greatest place on earth to grow many crops.

Editorial: Nats name Napier candidate
It is time for David Elliott to show what he has to offer the people of Napier.

Mike Williams: Smith's GE stance puts him on thin ice
Hawke's Bay featured in Television One's Sunday programme last week.

Simon Nixon: Port decision should be best for Bay
Suggestion by Stuart Nash is appealing,but is not necessarily the best way forward.

Marcus Agnew: It's the mind that matters
NZ Rugby' campaign to break down barriers around public perceptions of mental health.

Editorial: What price a loss of your money and your friend
A lawyer gets sentenced for stealing friends' money

Dr Ryno Tope: The struggle with food and how to solve it
Most believe knowing WHAT to eat is the most important factor when it comes to diet.

Editorial: Compassionate sentence was spot on
Compassion was needed and that is what was served.

Why are NZ spinners short-changed?
Spinners in this country are getting a raw deal in cricket because of a caste system