
Carmen Hall: G-strings are for the bedroom, not beach
COMMENT: As the mum, I worry about the impression this trend is making on young girls.
COMMENT: As the mum, I worry about the impression this trend is making on young girls.
COMMENT: We were lucky to buy our home but others haven't been.
Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.
Comment: Ensuring reparation system doesn't re-victimise people is the least we can do.
This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.
COMMENT: Leaders need like-minded people in their top teams.
COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.
One month on the effects of the eruption are still seen in the small community.
COMMENT: They deserve an international reputation.
COMMENT: Help lifeguards stay afloat. You never know when they might do the same for you.
And now we're paying the price at our funerals.
Reggae was back and Rotorua loved it.
Other projects may need to take a back seat.
Rotorua leaders and people on the street share their hopes and wishes for 2020.
Recognising the people who quietly make way for greatness.
There is no salvation for any of us if we go on asserting that nothing need change.
Aspirations for a better Bay of Plenty in 2020
Between the Flags campaign highlights work our surf lifesavers do.
The past six weeks have seen donations for food banks flow in.
Drive safely, go home and see your loved ones.
The lesson is not so much about how to win an election as about how to lose one.
"Many New Zealand men have developed a fear of being alone with small kids."
The city's Christmas tree and being lonely are topics on letter writers' minds today.