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