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17th February 2026
Too Many Moos in the Paddock (And Not Enough Process)
6th February 2026
I Didn’t Know About the Representative Groups Review
3rd February 2026
Nothing Happened After the Election. That’s the Problem.
24th January 2026
Part 2 : The Presbytery on Epping Place: Authorship, Layout, and Change
2nd January 2026
Part 2: Two Mile Terraces — Design, Impact, and What It Should Have Been
1st January 2026
I Read the Two Mile Terraces Files So You Don’t Have To – Two Mile Bay, Taupō
3rd December 2025
Architecture of Taupo: The Schoolhouse on Epping Place: A Relic From Sacred Heart (And Taupō Has No Idea)
30th November 2025
Architecture of Taupō: 35 Taupō View Road (1970)
29th November 2025
The Case of the Missing Megson:
21st November 2025
Dear Mayor, I’ve Got Something to Say…
18th November 2025
PART THREE:The Governance Shift, The Transparency Gap, and Why It Matters For Taupo.
18th November 2025
PART TWO: What’s Actually Inside the TEL Fund (The Real Numbers, Not the Myths)
18th November 2025
PART ONE: What the TEL Fund Actually Is (in normal human language)
18th November 2025
INTRO: Before You Read Part One
14th November 2025
Dunedin City Council : When a Facebook Post Becomes a Courtroom
8th November 2025
Sika Show Shenanigans: A Chief of Coolness Field Report
6th November 2025
The Church I Thought I Knew, But It Turned Out to Just Be a Brand
5th November 2025
My Beige Exorcism: Confessions from a 70s House That Refuses to Die
3rd November 2025
Lay the chips where they may, but you make your own bed.
2nd November 2025
Where Did the Rates Notices Go? – Part 2
30th October 2025
How to Waste $37.5 Million Without Owning a Thing — Taupō Council Edition.
28th October 2025
I Tried to Watch New Zealand Today. And Honestly, I Regret It
27th October 2025
“Two Bills, No Chill: The Great Waikato Rates Mystery”
27th October 2025
Inside the Machine: What 430 Staff and 9 Comms People Tell Us About Taupō District Council
25th October 2025
Dial-Up Leadership: Please Wait While the Mayor Reboots
25th October 2025
The Gene Tech Bill: The Rulebook That Lets the Big Kids Make All the Rules
22nd October 2025
We Can Do Better Than Boxes: Rethinking How We Build on Whenua
21st October 2025
Derren Brown’s 2003 Clip on Deinfluencing the Influence Is a Mic Drop to Everyone
18th October 2025
Dummies guide to the council hotseat series : The Friendly Trap
17th October 2025
Dummies Guide to the council hotseat series : The Things We Said We Wouldn’t Take
16th October 2025
Dummies guide to the council hotseat: The Pedal Bin Mentality
16th October 2025
When Lying Becomes Strategy, and Truth Becomes Optional
15th October 2025
“If We Don’t Guard Our Peace, We’ll End Up Like England”
14th October 2025
Council Filing System (A True Story)
11th October 2025
A Proper Thank You (Finally)
7th October 2025
Conversations with my AI Topic : What Could I Let Go Of? (Don’t Tempt Me)
7th October 2025
It Wasn’t Ours to Begin With
6th October 2025
3 Dudes in a Dinghy: How Taupō’s Floating Into Agenda 2030 (And Why It Matters)
5th October 2025
In the NIDI BENINGIN: Clause 27B, Confusion, and the Candidate Who Should Have Done Her Homework
5th October 2025
Part 2: The Audit and Risk Committee Did Not See This Either
29th September 2025
Body Language and Media: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
28th September 2025
I’ve Voted. Now I’m Paying Attention
27th September 2025
The Mystery of the Missing Rates Notices
26th September 2025
Dear Candidates: You Don’t Know Sh*t
24th September 2025
Why I Took Down DemocraDeck
23rd September 2025
Airbnb Hosts Will Pay — Or Will They?
23rd September 2025
What No One Tells You About Speaking Up
21st September 2025
DemocraDeck: The Civic Card Game I Accidentally Built Instead of Sleeping
21st September 2025
Someone Please Rip the Bandaid Off So We Can All Go Home, Thanks.
19th September 2025
Living Next to a Supervolcano Has Taught Me…
19th September 2025
Jesus Wasn’t a Conservative and Neither Was Charlie Kirk
19th September 2025
How to Cut a $2.5 Million Marketing Budget
18th September 2025
The Brutal Truth: How Taupō’s Council Candidates Stack Up (Ward by Ward)
17th September 2025
Taupō Election Forums: Where the Toddlers Go to Type.
12th September 2025
Chains and Sleeping at the Wheel, Don’t Make Leaders.
9th September 2025
Rotary Club “Meet the Candidates” – Started Making It. Had a Breakdown. Bon Appétit.
2nd September 2025
Māori Wards and the Silence in Between
1st September 2025
The Firm: When Council Becomes a Machine
28th August 2025
This isn’t ‘Mayor Idol’, it’s an Election… or am I wrong?
25th August 2025
Cafés, Taxis, and a $400 Aussie Dinner, Is This Really Council Business?
22nd August 2025
Three Paths for Taupō: Continuity, Reform, or Disruption?
18th August 2025
When “Volunteering” Becomes Compulsory: The Loopholes Failing NZ Children.
10th August 2025
K-Pop Demon Hunters – A Fun Watch With a Murky Finish
1st August 2025
I Didn’t Mean to Find This: But Now I Can’t Unsee It – Council conflicts.
31st July 2025
Conversations With My AI Topic: I Have So Many Questions
25th July 2025
Mayor Maybe: The Comeback Nobody Asked For (But Somehow Keeps Happening)
21st July 2025
The Cost of Communication: Taupō District Council’s Nearly $1M Comms Bill.
19th July 2025
How to Keep Taupō Rates Down (Without Losing the Plot)
14th July 2025
It Was Never About Race – It’s About Who Gets a Seat at the Table (and Who Sits Behind It)
12th July 2025
🜃 It Goes Deeper Than It Is
12th July 2025
Conversations with My AI: What Christianity Is and Isn’t
8th July 2025
Sip & Yell: The Ultimate Taupō PR Buzzword Bingo
6th July 2025
Read This One First: What These Conversations Are (And Aren’t)
6th July 2025
Conversations with my AI Topic : I didn’t move to Taupō to be liked.
6th July 2025
Lucid and Raw: Why Kendrick Lamar & nobigdyl. Stay on Repeat
5th July 2025
We Don’t Need a CEO With a Giant Paycheck Who Can’t Talk
4th July 2025
Same Pipes. Same Price. But Half the House:
30th June 2025
Part 5.5 – Two Towns, One District: Who’s Getting What?
29th June 2025
Conversations With My AI Topic: What the Brian Tamaki + Peter Mortlock March Was Really About.
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