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Cira Olivier: Otūmoetai, Bellevue, Brookfield - where is the grass really greener?

Opinion: Pitting Otūmoetai, Bellevue and Brookfield against one another.

Rob Rattenbury: New Zealand's rate of homelessness is shameful

OPINION: Where is the action on our homelessness issue?

Letters: Building more roads is a long-term liability

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Opinion: Time will tell if Kawerau can survive mill closure as a single entity

OPINION: Time will tell if whether the town can remain a district in its own right.

Zizi Sparks: How I'm learning to embrace winter

Opinion: But don't talk to me about the cold.

Dawn Picken: Bracing myself for an empty nest

OPINION: You know you've raised an independent soul if they flee the nest.

Letters to the editor: Questions raised over democracy

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Matt Cowley: Completing half a project? Must be April Fool's

OPINION: Transport is a complex issue and we will all need to work together to resolve it.

Letters to the editor: Il-thought out responses to climate change

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Letters to the editor

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Leah Tebbutt: Racist ideas ensured my strongest connection to my whakapapa is a man no longer here

OPINION: My Poppa is my identity to te ao Māori

Dawn Picken: Listen up, I've got something to say

OPINION: We know when someone's focusing on our words and when they're not.

Letters: Communities need facilities and amenities to grow

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Jo Raphael: School leaders burning candles at both ends

OPINION: A happy medium needs to be found for burnt-out school leaders.

Letters: Treatment of speaker at ratepayers' meeting shameful

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Samantha Motion: Marriage is so last century, but we can still learn from it

OPINION: The qualities that make a good marriage apply to any sort of long-term union.

Letters: Newspaper reporting of crowd jeering correct

OPINION: Bay of Plenty readers have their say.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Waikato cyber attack should come as no surprise

OPINION: Software protection must be taken seriously, otherwise it could be our undoing.