Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz We are constantly amused and bemused over the modern world's obsession to warn everyone of everything. It seems peoplekind have recently lost the ability to think for themselves.... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus We live in a divided country; it's sad to see and I don't know what can be done to solve the problem. I'm not talking about Covid here. Enough about that. We're not divided about Covid, except in a few... Read More

Jan Tinetti Labour MP As the date for the Tauranga by-election was announced last week, it made me reflect on the past four-and-a-half years I have spent as a locally-based List MP here in Tauranga. One of the best decisions my... Read More

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP The current Labour government operates a policy to reduce the numbers of people in prison. It has succeeded in this, but not through a reduction in crime. From conversations I've... Read More

Four Tauranga Boxing Club fighters are in their final phases of preparation for the postponed 2021 Boxing New Zealand National Championships. The championships are to be held in Wanganui from April 20 to April 23. Defending Women's 69kg champion Arianne... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder For further Infomation about a wide range of weather/climate matters see my new book "Fifteen shades of climate... the fall of the weather dice and the butterfly effect". The extract below on "Central... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP Since coming into government, Labour has worked hard to support Kiwis. This month, we've taken the next step, with a suite of changes coming into force on April 1 that will see the majority of New Zealand... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus Welcome to another week of things not quite happening. It is, as pretty much everyone I run into says, a bit weird at the moment. Not that I'm actually running into a lot of people as I'm not really going... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch We are fed so much spin, so often that it's hard to untangle sometimes. Take the ‘resignation' of Dr Ashley Bloomfield this week - Director General of Health and chief executive of the Ministry... Read More

The opening stanza of the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup at the Bay Oval set the scene for an amazing month of the best women's players in the world showcasing their talents to a huge international television audience. While Covid pandemic regulations... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder Rainfalls for the month of March have been recorded in Tauranga for 124 years since 1898 - except for 1904, 1908 and 1909. This graph below shows the range of rainfalls from a high of 504 mm in 1979,... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus All of us have wished, sometime, for a time machine. It would come in handy for many a situation: the brief instant you realise you have just fallen out of a tree; the moment after you fail that breathalyser... Read More