by Cimino | 4 Jun 2010 | Regional governance
Darien Fenton and Phil Twyford Members of Parliament Dear Darien and Phil Regarding Rodney District Council’s private member’s bill. The Mahurangi Magazine has worked assiduously to encourage involvement of its readers in the process of devising new governance...
by Cimino | 2 Jun 2010 | Action plan planning, Cartoons
The venue could not have been better. It had location. The Mahurangi Magazine e-mailed a last-minute heads up that the bar was opening at 5.30pm. (This was later amended further to 5pm but a second email might have sent a message of unseemly preoccupation with drink!)...
by Cimino | 31 May 2010 | Climate mobilisation
The reality is slowly dawning. Everything that made the timely warnings difficult to accept, now makes it impossible not to. The awe personified in the prayer ‘my boat is so small and your sea is so wide’ made preposterous the notion that mere man could change the...
by Cimino | 28 May 2010 | Action plan planning
It is partly symbolic. Copies of the draft Mahurangi Action Plan that are pawed over, on Monday night, will not have been printed in colour. While printing in black and white reduces cost and conserves non-renewable resources, the main motivation was to send a strong...
by Cimino | 26 May 2010 | Action plan planning, Cartoons
Aucklanders are Mahurangi Harbour’s best friends… …and, potentially, its worst enemies. Individually, Aucklanders would turn Mahurangi into Mangawhai. Collectively, with regional governance, they will protect that value they and the locals hold dear: The sense of...
by Auckland Regional Council | 26 May 2010 | Local, Local government, Regional governance
Essentially Auckland Regional Council media release 26 May 2010 Rodney District Council is currently calling for submissions on a private member’s bill to become a unitary authority, even though the bill is struggling to find a parliamentary sponsor. Previous...
by Cimino | 21 May 2010 | Science
And the prize for the most foolish first line goes to: Climate change advocates will be buoyed by data which has emerged from the US today. Admittedly, the New Zealand Herald is not alone in using the ludicrous phrase ‘climate change advocate’. But for foolishness,...
by Cimino | 19 May 2010 | Regional governance
Saying no to the chairman was not part of the plan. But when he put the question ‘But don’t you consider that this provides the mandate?’, it couldn’t be dodged. This, was the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. And no, it did not provide a mandate to impose a...
by Cimino | 17 May 2010 | Transport and climate action, Warkworth, Weirs
Dam the Mahurangi River and generate electricity. Such a proposal would face fierce opposition. But what if the dam was already in place; built more than a century since… The damweir is the superior term, given that, as designed, the structure lacks an intentional...
