Latest from RDP - Opinion

Jo Raphael: We need Aucklanders

COMMENT: Aucklanders need to spend their money in the regions - not just Auckland.

Kristin Macfarlane: There is nothing wrong with cameras in schools

COMMENT: There's nothing wrong with schools having cameras.

Letters to the editor: Global warming takes back seat to Covid

Rotorua readers have their say.

Bryan Gould: Hunch is Crusher's not going down well with the public

COMMENT: We have not seen or heard as much from the National leader.

Letters to the editor: Unsure how work will improve Te Ngae Rd

Rotorua readers have their say.

Comment: In matters of life or death, minutes matter

COMMENT: Return of Rotorua rescue helicopter a no-brainer.

Kristin Macfarlane: Focus on mental health timely in 2020

COMMENT: Increasingly open conversations about wellbeing can only be a good thing.

Samantha Motion: Why we should ditch the boring election hoardings

COMMENT: Back your future. Protect your future. Change your future. Ditch the signs!

Stephanie Worsop: Social media and the guilty parent

COMMENT: When picture-perfect 'mummy influencers' make you question your own abilities.

Catching the tide for 'the lockdown generation'

What happens when young people 'miss the tide' in the transition to adulthood?.

Letters to the editor: Hemo Gorge sculpture a waste of public money

OPINION: Rotorua readers have their say.

Comment: Could the Hemo Sculpture be Rotorua's Eiffel Tower?

Initially criticised, the Eiffel Tower now welcomes 7 million visitors a year.

Letters to the editor: Hemo sculpture criticised

Readers share their views on news making headlines in the Bay of Plenty.

Opinion: Do you know how your regional council is supposed to work?

COMMENT: It is up to us to meet councils halfway.

David Beck: Why I'm learning te reo as a 29-year-old pākehā

David Beck: It's never too late to overcome your own ignorance and learn something new.

Bryan Gould: One way or another, the tax tab comes for us all

Bryan Gould shares his views on why paying tax isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Kristin Macfarlane: Ignorance valued speaking another person's language over my own

Te Wiki o te reo Māori/Māori Language Week gets under way today.

Samantha Motion: Five weeks to the election - here's who I think will win in the Bay

COMMENT: There are four safe seats and one to watch in the Bay of Plenty region