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A war of words erupted this week overshadowing several of the typical happy-clap WCC PR releases. Councillors accused of bullying … Continue reading WCC Week Three: Three weeks in a leaky boat, everyone’s a bully baby that’s the truth, a new CEO, and how safe is the city?
It’s been a rollicking second week for the new Council as they tackle the big issues like the Wellington Flag … Continue reading WCC Week Two: Let them eat flags, unhappy communities, Sean Rush still on the ropes, in defense of Lester
The Mayor announced a raft of portfolio responsibilities yesterday for the Council. Rather than simplifying the previous list it’s been … Continue reading Analysing Council Portfolios; a significant workload, some interesting additions, a couple of hospital passes, an ok balance
My partner and I have been farm sitting our friends’ property in Ahiaruhe for the last week. For both of … Continue reading WCC Week One: SNAFU, Council all over the place, cranks, retreats, recounts, and sniping
Finally, some progress in the Council this week with Foster picking Sarah Free as his new Deputy. The Foster and … Continue reading The Foster and Free Show
We love Eye of the Fish, Leviathan is a great writer with well-considered insights and ideas. He’s starting a series … Continue reading Eye of the Fish; Covering the airport news this week
No further movement this week in the paralysis that has been visited on the Wellington City Council by the former … Continue reading How to hold a city hostage, recount tactics, and a massive opportunity missed by the new Wellington City Council
It’s not been a great start to this triennium with a sour taste left in the mouth of the city … Continue reading WCC; A sour start, to recount or not recount, tunnels, airports, and Hanlon’s Razor in action
A lot of commentators have suggested that there is a left majority on the newly formed council, of eight. I … Continue reading Analysing the new Council; it is not as left as you think it is, avoiding three years of stasis, and THAT tunnel
It’s hard to predict which Councillors are going to lead which portfolios, especially when we don’t know what the portfolios … Continue reading WCC Portfolios; ridiculous predictions on Deputy Mayor, disrupting the city, who gets what, a chaos model
