Jan Tinetti Labour MP Our Government has a proud record of investing in our schools, lifting the quality of the classrooms students and teachers spend so much time in. Already, we've provided up to $400,000 to almost every state... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP Here we are nearly at the end of the year and the new Parliamentary term has only just started. We had the Commission and State Openings of Parliament last week, very special... Read More

Straight from city council A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris Congratulations, Your Worship, on being chosen by your community to lead Tauranga City Council. I look forward to working with you as you bring... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus I have always thought of the Tauranga music scene as pretty middle-of-the-road. But perhaps I've been wrong. That struck me the other day as I prepared to review another couple of local... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It doesn't take long before someone else comes up with something though, so the theme this week is Other People's Ideas. Firstly I'm going to shamelessly steal an idea from my old employer... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Volunteers are the backbone of this great country. The commitment of hundreds of thousands of unpaid workers gives our nation one of the highest standards of living... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder During the last few months I have been writing my fifth book.The idea for the book came about when I was visiting my family in Adelaide in January 2020 during a heat wave. One day when the forecast... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch A month ago we were all doomed to live in a diseased world indefinitely. But, hey presto, and now we have a whole bunch of vaccines to choose from. So now the mad scramble for vaccine supply... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Is it wrong to keep patting ourselves on the back for being so lucky? After a while does it come across as hubris? I don't know. But I do know that the luck in question was to be... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz There are few more picturesque cricket grounds in the country than the Tauranga Domain number two field. With plenty of trees providing spectators with shade and... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The chart below shows that since 1979, when reliable satellite observations became available, there has been little overall trend in the average tropospheric temperatures, apart from milder/warmer temperatures... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP After rising on September 6 for the 2020 election campaign, Parliament will resume next week, when all MPs will be sworn in to the 53rd Parliament. The opening of Parliament is... Read More