Posts by Brent Jackson
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: The Vote, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I must admit, that thought did put me off voting for Whaledump.
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As I heard on the radio this morning : "War - what is it good for ? Absolutely nothing !"
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With the current pressure on primary schools in the region, and the proposal to convert Pasadena Intermediate school into a primary school, I went looking for land that could be used for a school. I wondered if there would be room for a primary school if Chamberlain Park gave up a few holes at the end of Sutherland Rd (ie the green blob in the west side of the above map). There would need to be a bridge over the motorway for access from Pt Chev, but there appears to be little other suitable land for siting a new primary school in the area.
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There is a protest against the lack of action in the Roastbusters case, in Auckland on Sat 22nd Nov at 1pm outside the High Court in Waterloo Quadrant (where Symonds St and Anzac Avenue meet).
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
They’re still going to have to either find him a new electorate or perform a particularly radical turnaround in New Plymouth.
Won't Little being voted as leader actually be that turn-around. Afaics leaders and ex-leaders get a lot more electorate votes than back-bencher MPs. It is likely that he'll pull more Labour party votes as well.
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And I’d wager that there might well be a few more stories to be found in interrogating the data that governments and ministers offer to justify their actions.
The way you've phrased that sentence highlights exactly what the problem is.
Politicians seem to view data as a means "to justify their actions", rather than trying to collect accurate data to determine the best action to choose.
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Well, at least this appears to be a win (for once) : Julian Blanc flees Australia
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Thank you Jolisa for going to all this effort for us all. I, for one, really appreciate it.
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Hard News: Housing, hope and ideology, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
It's not illegal to drive barefoot in New Zealand
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Auckland Transport, there are many things I’d like you to do with Meola Road, including good shared paths (there’s heaps of room). But mostly, I’d like that bad stretch upgraded to something commensurate with the use to which Aucklanders put it.
And lo, it was done.
