by Cimino | 19 Oct 2016 | Election turnout, Youth voting
Voting in schools works, or would, if more students were involved. With participation rates so low, the only intervention proven to address the worldwide decline in voter turnout is being relegated to little more than tokenism. Of the nearly 500 intermediate and...
by Cimino | 18 Oct 2016 | Uncategorised
Mahurangi West has much to thank Pūhoi for. Historically, it was one of two watering holes achievable. Locals, on reaching the Notice Tree, would know whether to head to Pūhoi, or to Waiwera, to find the evening’s frivolities. This year, support from the Pūhoi...
by Cimino | 8 Oct 2016 | Concurrent elections, Election turnout, Electoral enrolment, Youth voting
It is difficult to say which is more egregious. The three mayors yearning for the good old days of single-day polling. Or the mainstream media for being equally ill-informed and not pillorying them for their collective abject lack of evidence-based policy responses to...
by Cimino | 5 Oct 2016 | Berger for the board, Climate strategy, Election turnout, Local board, Youth voting
Tessa Berger is quoted, but not by name. In his New Zealand Herald column Political Roundup, Dr Bryce Edwards names neither Tessa, nor the national Kids Voting programme she champions. Dr Edwards suggests local government is headed towards an existential crisis,...
by Cimino | 1 Oct 2016 | Committee, Meetings and celebrations
Mahurangi Action committee nominations open It’s is a committee for people who detest them. In contrast to most incorporated societies, which typically meet monthly, Mahurangi Action meets continually, via the Mahurangi Magazine and email. Although committees are an...
by Cimino | 28 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Regional governance, Regional parks
Dr Ronald Locker had suggested it as a national park. It was 1973 when he suggested the creation of a national park to protect his beloved Mahurangi Harbour, in Seacoast in the Seventies, which he co-authored with Professor John Morton and David Thom cbe. What Locker,...
by Cimino | 27 Sep 2016 | Election turnout, Representation, STV
Every local-body election since its introduction, sees the same disinformation. The rock-solid single-transferable-vote system, first computerised in Aotearoa and used by her for 12 years, is set to endure its triennial onslaught of slings and arrows....
by Cimino | 24 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Election turnout, Local, Local board, STV, Youth voting
Warkworth from 4000 to 20 000 by 2040. That would be a five-fold increase in less than half the 50 years it took the region to treble to today’s population, of about 1.5 million. With this planned growth-rate of more than three times the regional average, Warkworth is...
by Cimino | 20 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Local, Local board
Penny Webster is good. She’s been a keen advocate for old people who don’t like apartments leaving the centre of Auckland, which is one of the key values of our War effort. Besides that, she’s handled a key finance role for the last three years [and the three years...
by Cimino | 18 Sep 2016 | Berger for the board, Local, Local board, Youth voting
Tessa Berger’s bonanza of national media coverage began locally, with the Rodney Times sending out its reporter Jay Boreham to interview Tessa in respect to her eye-catching billboards, one of which by then had been removed. Given evidence of its reasonably careful...
