Better to let someone express extreme views, so they can be addressed.

Our crimes against nature will come back to haunt us.

Hospital admissions, fire call-outs and animal distress are among the issues.

Most people learn quite quickly when the back pocket is affected.

Home delivery is coming back in some towns, with boutique supplies delivered in glass.

The mayor, councillors and staff actively support relocation of the bus depot.

They are huddled in the dark, the only lighting coming from the street light.

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

Competition for the No 10 Downing St address is all on

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

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

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

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

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

Underpinning a mammoth workforce was an equally mammoth support industry.

Surely coach travellers are worthy of a better facility, not some throwback to the 1940s.

To know what council spending might be stopped, we must first know the costs involved.

Budget 2019 allocates $1 billion to the New Zealand rail system over two years.

"It's been a hard day's night but you can't always get what you want," muses Terry Sarten.

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

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

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

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

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