Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch A lot of people have been trying to make sense of the protests outside Parliament these past two weeks but there's really no need to reinvent the wheel. Most human behaviour can be explained in... Read More

Democracy HQ A personal view, by Councillor Steve Morris In the middle of a pandemic, one organisation has managed not just to survive, but grow. It increased its revenue so much that it has been able to afford a 30 per cent... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP New Zealanders' pay packets are being eaten away more and more each year under this Government. Inflation is nearly six per cent. Petrol is up to $3 per litre in the Bay of Plenty. Fruit... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid has become a keen observer of Singapore horse racing, with a miniscule share in a horse that has lined up on the Kanji track on a number of occasions... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Monthly rainfalls for Tauranga have been recorded at several recording sites during the last 124 years. From January 1898 to December 1904, the observation site was described as the Tauranga Harbour,... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch It's 5.30am and I'm peering through windows and checking to see if the door is unlocked. After casing the front of the building and the side, I hit the jackpot at the back - a window is ajar! Like... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz Arguably, the two most important statistics in New Zealand right now are inflation, which is 5.9 per cent; and wage growth, which is 2.6 per cent. This is the highest inflation... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP We live in a great city full of kind and generous people. During my time as a local principal I was always grateful to the people who gave so generously of their time to help the children at my school; from... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Although it wasn't widely reported, certainly not as widely as it should have been, two weeks ago we lost one of the greats from New Zealand's jazz world. Jim Langabeer, who was 80, may not be familiar... Read More

Another year, another Baywide rugby format. Consultation with Bay of Plenty Rugby Union clubs has resulted in short and sharp 13 week, one (premier) division competition being endorsed. The first round of 11 weeks of preliminary play kicks-off on April... Read More

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

Winston Watusi Music Plus Looks like I jumped the gun last week; next week it might the shark, but last week it was the gun. Omicron has not hit. Yet. Many things I predicted would be cancelled have in fact not been. Yet. On the... Read More