Rob Rattenbury: My predictions for 2022
'Our world and humanity will stumble on as usual.'
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Rob Rattenbury: Special feeling of going back home
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Dawn Picken: Rethinking what it means to turn the page on another year
Opinion: Let's take the pressure off 2022 and ourselves to make the next year wonderful.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Family time makes life worth living
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Rob Rattenbury: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all
Rob Rattenbury reminisces about the meaning of Christmas and its changes over the years.
Comment: Predicting 2022 even more challenging than 2021
Russell Bell sings the praises of Wanganui Enterprises in his last column of 2021
Letters: Floating ideas for flood-prone homes
Whanganui Chronicle readers have their say
Kevin Page: And just like that it's Christmas
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Dawn Picken: 'I see each meal as a memory'
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Letters: Jane Winstone Village, tired politicians and smoking
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Comment: Two nominees for 2021 Business Zen Award
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Opinion: Life lessons from the lake
Steph Brunt's boys had a great day out and learned some valuable lessons at the same time.
Comment: Quiet life in NZ after living in major world city
New Zealand is not big enough for a "world city", writes Rob Rattenbury.
Dawn Picken: This is weird - leaving NZ in the Covid age
I flip out before any trip, but pandemic travel has multiplied my freak factor.
Letters: Doing justice to New Zealand aviation
This weeks letters include one from a reader in Canada
Comment: A shout-out to Whanganui businesses trying to cope with traffic lights
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Rob Rattenbury: Failure teaches the realities of life
OPINION: It's dreaded exam time again.
Dawn Picken: Keep your friends close and conspiracy theory fans closer
OPINION: Talking to science deniers requires technique and patience.
Zizi Sparks: That's zed-eye-zed-eye
Opinion: Having a unique name has its ups and downs.
Letters: The call for visitors to stay away and a recycling response
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Letters: Brazen abuse of mobility parking
Readers have a say on parking, waste management, Three Waters and getting the jab.
Comment: Covid traffic light uncertainty will hit us in different ways
"We are in this and will overcome it together," writes Russell Bell.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Leave no one behind as we learn to live with Covid
OPINION: We believe the Covid response vaccination bill was not compliant with Te Tiriti.
Letters: Whanganui footpaths like 'negotiating a minefield'
Readers have their say about vaccine gratitude and the city's 'minefield' footpaths
Rob Rattenbury: Galway Bay and the pattern of colonisation
Comment: 'That is what it is like to be colonised'.
Dawn Picken: We're missing the mark in debate about sexual harassment
Opinion: Sexual harassment - and the way we've failed to curb it- transcends politics.
Jacob McSweeny: Learning to love my bike
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Premium subscribers have their say on the closure of the Ruapehu birthing unit.
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