Kate Stewart: Choosing your "identity"
People are desperately seeking acceptance by identifying as almost anything under the sun
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Letters: We too can make a change
The Orange Peril clings to his ignorance and has become the face of climate change denial.
Chester Borrows: 'State agencies have blood on their hands'
Chester Borrows: There needs to be change in the way we do justice.
Lynley Tulloch: Sunsets more rewarding than fireworks
Auckland has asked Government to ban the private use and sale of fireworks
Letters: Cullen one of NZ's best
Cullen cut govt debt to below $20 billion, created KiwiSaver, and improved National Super
Daring to do something different …
Full credit to a SWAT team and Robert Muldoon for trying to find innovative solutions.
Ian McKelvie: A snapshot of Parliament and NZ
Ian McKelvie gives a run down on New Zealand
Editorial:Inmates' votes are a part of their rehab
Negativity to the Greens' proposal to give prison inmates the right to vote
Letters: Save fireworks for Matariki
One wonders how a man in a white house can wield such power on behalf of the "free" world
Rachel Stewart: Can we separate the art from the artist?
COMMENT: I don't believe you can rewrite history. It's already made.
Fred Frederikse: The Millisphere of Venezuela
Venezuela suffers from high levels of crime, corruption, hyperinflation and scarcities
Sarjeant: Anne Pattillo and Whanganui Arts Review prize
Arts Review Open Award prize is being increased from $2000 to $5000.
John Archer: Muttonbirds and a seaside clinic
How inland Maori on mineral-deficient soils obtained health-giving iodine
Conservation comment: Hooray for Horizons!
Farmer Nelson Lebo is feeling the love after attending a Love Your Land Field Day.
Nicola Patrick: It's all coming together in Whanganui
Nicola Patrick reflects on Whanganui's new and long-standing success stories
Kate Stewart: The truth is out there somewhere
What does one do when even "the truth" isn't actually the truth?
Letters: Traffic 'fix' creates chaos
As ratepayers, we have already paid over the odds for this stuff-up.
Letters: Mine re-entry is the right thing
It is marvellous this Government has kept its promise to attempt a recovery of the bodies.
Editorial: Ray Stevens was a servant of the Whanganui people
Former councillor always fought for his community
Frank Greenall: Capital Gains? ...Ping the real culprits!
Frank Greenall on the Tax Working Group and Capital Gains Tax.
Letters: Capital gain a myth for homeowners
Mortgaged, a $200,000 home really costs you $400,000. So who says you make a capital gain?
Letters: Tax short-term sales more
Greed overwhelms fairness for too many Kiwis, and that is a shameful thing.
Lynley Tulloch: I have seen many rodeo animals in various stages of distress
The rodeo folk think of rodeo as competitive sport
Fred Frederikse: The Millisphere of Malang
This millisphere is Malang after the largest city in the southern East Java.
Conservation Comment: Wild pines a fire risk
It is time the fire service and DoC looked at ways to remove these pine trees.
Letters: Will MPs lead mine entry?
I didn't see Winston or Andrew among the trainees. Maybe some God is going to protect them
Capital gains tax may prove to be fizzer
Capital gains tax must be fiscally neutral, argues Peter Lyons.
Conservation comment: Paradise Lost, don't blame climate change
Is Pinus radiata a fire enhancing species
Looking back at some of the speakers at the Whanganui Science Forum
The science forum has no political agenda, just a search for truth, writes Frank Gibson.
Gwynne Dyer: Nigerian Election
The Independent National Election Commission postponed the election for a week.
Let's talk law: Thinking of selling your business?
For many people the sale of their business is the culmination of many years of hard work