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Opinion: Was the gun buyback a success? Not really ...
Was the gun buyback a success? Not really, says Chris Geddis.

2020 vision: Another year gone ... wonder what happened?
So that's 2019 done and dusted ... soon be 2525 ... I mean 2020.

Opinion: Humility and mana present in Hawke's Bay New Year Honours recipients
Hawke's Bay Today salutes our 2020 New Years Honours recipients.

Mike Williams: The best of NZ politics in 2019
National Party's star and what single-handedly saved it from internal disarray was a poll.

Post war shopping boom: 'Cash rolled in like water'
Michael Fowler writes about the 1919 post war shopping boom

Empty places at the Christmas table remind us of full lives
To all the families with empty places at their Christmas table this year ...

Opinion: Dear Jacinda, it's not me, it's you
Bruce Bisset ponders the looming demise of his relationship with Jacinda Ardern

Opinion: Call it what you will, just don't call it Xmas
Wyn Drabble explores alternative words and phrases we use to describe Christmas.

Opinion: Flaxmere school should be congratulated for handling of shooting
Flaxmere Primary School needs to be congratulated.

Moroney: Have we enough info' for the tech'?
We have got the technology but have we got enough information?

NZ has one of simplest, yet expensive retirement schemes
More saving and presumptive planning is the answer

Summer training: Those who do the mahi, get the treats!
With exams over, it's a great time to set some goals

Fluffy feathery and footsore freeloaders need not apply
My chooks are nothing but a flock of freeloaders

Exhibition celebrated decade of dance and jazz
Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda were the face of the Jazz Age

Port Ahuriri once Bay's the main port
The Waghorne St wool store was built with a steel frame at cost of £12,000.

Concerts in jails have long and positive history
Corrections people have begun to take prisoner literacy seriously

Bruce Bisset: Invest millions in preserving the ocean, not museums
Invest millions in preserving the ocean - not a museum - says Bruce Bisset.

Religious doctrines are badly out of touch with reality
Schools of religion are drowning in a sea of belief but can't find a vessel to stay afloat

Comment: Looking forward to a better year
I also want to acknowledge the first responders. What brave people they are

Comment: Putting the heat on the heat
The heat is easy to blame when things go wrong because it can't answer back, or can it?

Wise: Put that back ... you don't know where it's been
"Rachel will take it," they said.

Financial decisions are packed with emotion
We're all human and prone to second guessing or panicking.

Hop growing did not brew up business
Whole families camped in tents on the plantation

Just one request to schools - spend local
We inherited neglected infrastructure when we took office

Bruce Bisset: The lies we tell ourselves
Is it any wonder that, even heartfelt, an apology is simply not enough?

Jeet Raval face of despair for those who live off crumbs
ESPN Cricinfo scribe George Dobell makes pertinent points about NZ wickets killing tests.