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For the up and coming by elections. 2025
Election 2026: Does Any of This Actually Add Up?
Opinion : How to Lose the Room in One Easy Lesson
10 Questions: Election 2026 : Part Two: Chris Flatt, Labour Party
10 Questions: Election 2026 : Part Three: Opportunity Party, Sam Plummer.
The Trucks Are Getting Older, the Firefighters Are Striking, and Somehow We Didn’t See This Coming: Inside New Zealand’s $1.3 Billion Fire and Emergency Infrastructure Problem
Taupo’s $5 Million Rubbish Question — Part One
The Annual Plan… in Plain English
Thursday funny
Opinion: Haven’t We Had This Conversation Before?
To Amalgamate or Not to Amalgamate: That Is the Question
The Pipes Got Upgraded. So Why Are The Questions Still Flowing?
Council Building Series Part 3: The Lease That Apparently Wasn’t Signed
Boom Boom and the Super City Express
Thursday Funny (planning consent delayed 24 hours).
Opinion: You Can’t Call It Democracy If You Can’t Ask the Question
What the JMA Actually Is And What It Isn’t
Opinion: When the Voice Outside the Chamber Doesn’t Match the One Inside
Council Building Series : Behind the Decision: Taupō’s $35 Million Council Building Part 2
Part 1 – The Council Building Question: Starting at the Beginning
Too Many Moos in the Paddock (And Not Enough Process)
I Didn’t Know About the Representative Groups Review
Nothing Happened After the Election. That’s the Problem.
Dear Mayor, I’ve Got Something to Say…
PART THREE:The Governance Shift, The Transparency Gap, and Why It Matters For Taupo.
PART TWO: What’s Actually Inside the TEL Fund (The Real Numbers, Not the Myths)
PART ONE: What the TEL Fund Actually Is (in normal human language)
INTRO: Before You Read Part One
Lay the chips where they may, but you make your own bed.
Where Did the Rates Notices Go? – Part 2
How to Waste $37.5 Million Without Owning a Thing — Taupō Council Edition.
“Two Bills, No Chill: The Great Waikato Rates Mystery”
Inside the Machine: What 430 Staff and 9 Comms People Tell Us About Taupō District Council
Dial-Up Leadership: Please Wait While the Mayor Reboots
The Gene Tech Bill: The Rulebook That Lets the Big Kids Make All the Rules
We Can Do Better Than Boxes: Rethinking How We Build on Whenua
Dummies guide to the council hotseat series : The Friendly Trap
Dummies Guide to the council hotseat series : The Things We Said We Wouldn’t Take
Dummies guide to the council hotseat: The Pedal Bin Mentality
Council Filing System (A True Story)
A Proper Thank You (Finally)
It Wasn’t Ours to Begin With
3 Dudes in a Dinghy: How Taupō’s Floating Into Agenda 2030 (And Why It Matters)
In the NIDI BENINGIN: Clause 27B, Confusion, and the Candidate Who Should Have Done Her Homework
Part 2: The Audit and Risk Committee Did Not See This Either
I’ve Voted. Now I’m Paying Attention
The Mystery of the Missing Rates Notices
Dear Candidates: You Don’t Know Sh*t
Why I Took Down DemocraDeck
Airbnb Hosts Will Pay — Or Will They?
What No One Tells You About Speaking Up
DemocraDeck: The Civic Card Game I Accidentally Built Instead of Sleeping
Someone Please Rip the Bandaid Off So We Can All Go Home, Thanks.
Living Next to a Supervolcano Has Taught Me…
How to Cut a $2.5 Million Marketing Budget
The Brutal Truth: How Taupō’s Council Candidates Stack Up (Ward by Ward)
Taupō Election Forums: Where the Toddlers Go to Type.
Chains and Sleeping at the Wheel, Don’t Make Leaders.
Rotary Club “Meet the Candidates” – Started Making It. Had a Breakdown. Bon Appétit.
Māori Wards and the Silence in Between
The Firm: When Council Becomes a Machine
This isn’t ‘Mayor Idol’, it’s an Election… or am I wrong?
Cafés, Taxis, and a $400 Aussie Dinner, Is This Really Council Business?
Three Paths for Taupō: Continuity, Reform, or Disruption?
I Didn’t Mean to Find This: But Now I Can’t Unsee It – Council conflicts.
Mayor Maybe: The Comeback Nobody Asked For (But Somehow Keeps Happening)
The Cost of Communication: Taupō District Council’s Nearly $1M Comms Bill.
How to Keep Taupō Rates Down (Without Losing the Plot)
Sip & Yell: The Ultimate Taupō PR Buzzword Bingo
We Don’t Need a CEO With a Giant Paycheck Who Can’t Talk
Same Pipes. Same Price. But Half the House:
Part 5.5 – Two Towns, One District: Who’s Getting What?
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