by Cimino | 21 Sep 2019 | Local, STV
Some dots can take longer to connect. And the more obvious the dot, the longer it seems to take for it to be connected. Since the announcement of the terms of reference of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, the Mahurangi Magazine has been exploring ways that...
by Cimino | 3 Sep 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
Ideally, the bicentennial of stvsingle-transferable-vote should be held where the Birmingham Society for Literary and Scientific Improvement held the world’s first election with it. But even if that ultimate location—were it known, and were it still standing—was the...
by Cimino | 17 Aug 2019 | Local, STV, Youth voting
First-past-the-post, 200 years after the first single transferable vote election, deserves to be a very distant memory. But, thanks to the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance stvsingle-transferable-vote-ignoramuses, the region is about to elect its fourth mayor...
by Cimino | 9 Aug 2019 | Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history
It was almost certainly a good thing, that 60 years ago the name of the Auckland region’s first European settlement slid unnoticed into the next bay north. Had the bay been known by a descriptive name, such as Spar Station Cove, or by any name at all, even less of the...
by Cimino | 21 Jul 2019 | Heritage vessels, Mahurangi history, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
His putative youngest brother was Charles Dickens’ friend and illustrator, Hablot Knight Browne, aka Phiz. Putative, because Hablot was in fact the nephew of the founder of the Auckland region’s first European settlement, George Davis Browne, being the latter’s...
by Cimino | 9 Jun 2019 | Paths and trails, Rivermouth ferry, Warkworth Town Hall Talk
The clash wasn’t discovered until after 20 June was locked in for the Mahurangi Coastal Trail Taking Shapely town-hall talk. Having cheerfully ceded their second-Wednesdays slot to bpw Warkworth, the town-hall talks have found that third Thursdays also clash. Which...
by Cimino | 14 May 2019 | Rivermouth ferry
Most of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail is already in use, and has been for decades. This, thanks to the entire coastline from Waiwera to the Mahurangi Harbour becoming regional park, by 1973. Within that time, built by park staff and student-labour grunt, a cliff-edge...
by Cimino | 20 Apr 2019 | Climate mobilisation, Moratorium on population
Bulletins proclaiming that the ipcc 1.5° report understates climate threat are literally understatements of epochal proportions. Self-reinforcing climate feedbacks already irreversibly underway signal civilization’s ever-growing greenhouse-gas emissions have ensured...
by Cimino | 6 Apr 2019 | Moratorium on population, Sea-level rise
Relying on economics to salvage a survivable climate is the 21st century equivalent of standing down an army and leaving defence of the realm to wizardry. With the United States Senate summarily scuttling the Green New Deal, it might seem in poor taste to point...
