Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) finding on Operation Eight
Posted: June 16, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: politics, "war on terror", Maori, urewera 4, police, Tuhoe, IPCA Leave a comment »02 June, 2013
The Editor, The Dominion Post
Dear Editor;
The Police Anti-Terror Squad set up surveillance in the Ureweras for two years to find a terrorist unit there and failed to do so. “26 firearms”? – “large quantities of live ammunition”? the Dom Post editorial (23 May) says. How much is large? How does it compare to the amount a corporate team building exercise in the bush might have? Read the rest of this entry »
“Wellington is dying” – PM
Posted: June 1, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: current-events, GCSB, Greens, John Key, National government, politics, public servants, Wellington Leave a comment »12 May, 2013
The Editor, The Wellingtonian
Dear Editor;
John Key’s use of the word “dying” to describe Wellington may have come naturally for him given that Wellington is the home to most public servants and that topped off with the reality that the city has an elected Green Lite mayor. These things would have been gnawing at him for years now, festering in his fundamentally dark dungeon of a worldview. Read the rest of this entry »
Wellington flyover – “desperation wafting from heat of impatience”
Posted: April 7, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: car cult, flyover, transportation, Wellington Leave a comment »28 March, 2013
The Editor, The Dominion Post
Dear Editor:
The desperation wafting from the heat of impatience is palpable in the Dom Post Weekender editorial of 23 March (“Councillors flying in the face of reality”). At a time when it is universally understood that expanding public transport is the way to go in developing newly sustainable cities, the Dom Post rails at councillors who want to glance in that direction. Read the rest of this entry »
Wellington City Council priorities – why the beatup?
Posted: March 21, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: car cult, change, climate disruption, flyover, light rail, sustainability, transportation, WCC, Wellington Leave a comment »9 March, 2013
The Editor, The Wellingtonian
Dear Editor:
What a shallow beat-up in your editorial of 28 February (Council grinds to a halt). “It’s good to think ahead, . ., but . . . .” making light of the council’s interest in the Wellington 2040 blueprint which at least discusses some of the issues of climate change, etc which have been so inadequately addressed by the city of Wellington and across New Zealand. It would appear the editorialist is fearful of the fundamental nature of change necessary to rebuild a sustainable city.
Transport is the most important issue facing Wellington these days and the editorial skirts around that with its demeaning reference to Mayor Wade-Brown’s “pet project”, light rail for the city. It says nothing about the continuing obstruction coming from the NZ Transport Agency and others still enthralled within the car-cult bubble.
However, the reference to the “vital major project” of the extension of the motorway towards the airport, currently with the flyover, exposes the core attitude evident in the editorial. What is instead vital is the shifting of transport priorities away from the car-cult and focus on the airport towards a sustainable transport system with priority on public transport and local personal modes such as cycling. The thinking process behind the editorial is actually what has ground to a halt.
Sincerely, Richard Keller
published 14 March, 2013
Asset Sales – “overcome with unease”
Posted: March 21, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: ACT, asset sales, car cult, economics, fossil fuels, John Key, power generation, public, sunday star times Leave a comment »3 March, 2013
The Editor, The Sunday Star Times
Dear Editor:
It has long been a policy of the political parties on the right, like ACT and National in New Zealand, to favour private ownership over public ownership. The current government is even willing to push that agenda with the state owned power companies, like Mighty River Power, even though the government knows it would hurt the economy and remove public control of a resource that will play a large part in on-going development of a new sustainable culture. Read the rest of this entry »
Wellington “flyover”
Posted: March 7, 2013 Filed under: Letters | Tags: Porirua, transportation, Wellington Leave a comment »3 March, 2013
The Editor, The Dominion Post, Wellington
Dear Editor:
Radio New Zealand reports that Porirua Mayor, Nick Leggett, says he is glad the Wellington City Council has stopped “dithering” and made the right decision to go ahead with the flyover at the Basin Reserve. Why is the mayor of Porirua so interested in something on the other side of town? I’d be tempted to think the mayor sees Wellington City primarily as a huge road block on the way to the airport.
Sincerely,
Richard Keller
(published in slightly edited form 5 Mar.)
Empty seats
Posted: February 17, 2013 Filed under: Letters-to-overseas | Tags: money, music, ohio state football, ohio state university marching band Leave a comment »December 17, 2012
Editor, Ohio State Alumni Magazine, 2200 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, Ohio 43210
Dear Editor,
Correspondent (Nov/Dec ’12) Brad Betts laments the empty seats of alumni (or not?) who own the club seats on the west side of the stadium, 50 yard line, just below the corporate boxes at the base of what used to be only the press box. They apparently soon leave for their tailgate parties (or is it to take advantage of the perks served undercover for these high$ donors?). This must as Brad says take some energy away from the stadium. Also it seems to me that the pandering to money evident in the “club seats” concept is not becoming of a great state university, though admittedly it is a sign of the times. Read the rest of this entry »
