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Terry Sarten: Musos need performance enhancing performances
Are punters getting a good deal when musicians perform drunk or stoned, asks Terry Sarten.
Sleepyhead's workers' village: When wasn't enhancing the health and wealth of your workforce not great for business?
Sleepyhead's plan for workers is admirable; hopefully it will inspire other businesses.
Russell Bell: Do you know what your business is responsible for?
It pays to think about health and safety.
Conservation Comment: What we must do to survive
Recycling is not enough, we must not make plastics in the first place.
Letters: Whose rights do we ignore next?
Readers share their thoughts on abortion, the news, and electric vehicles.
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Comment: Those wanting Trumpist or Boris-ness blathering will need to look elsewhere.
Why aren't tangata whenua the ones to welcome new citizens?
Comment: The words and actions of US president have emboldened others who think like him.
Letters: How Australia showed us Earth is older than 6000 years
Readers share thoughts on creationism, the British PM, plastics and vaccinations.
Comment: How NZ justice system treats our most vulnerable most harshly
We need to be progressive enough to acknowledge our indigenous population has been failed.
Frank Greenall: We could go to Mars... or we could fix Earth
The moon landing was a monumental feat...but now we have issues on Earth
Opinion: Our harmful, senseless cannabis laws
Present system makes for harmful social policy on recreational cannabis, says Jay Kuten.
Russell Bell: The Citadel shows the Whanganui way
Service helps Whanganui's reputation
Rachel Stewart: Get disconnected - you'll find real world again
COMMENT: Time's precious, there are things to see before the lights go out.
Moon landing and other milestones closer to home
Watching the "live" images of landing on the moon was a game-changer for NZ TV-watching.
Conservation comment: How we can halt climate change
The moon landing should have given us the perspective to stop climate change.
Meet a SNAGO - a sensitive new age gun owner
COMMENT: Real men need guns like these to prevent them feeling inadequate.
Letters: 'People's bank' disappoints pensioner
I'm shopping around for a bank that meets my needs, and I am a Kiwibank founder member.
Peter Lyons: Framing of cannabis referendum crucial
Legalisation allows businesses to promote greater use, as in any profit-driven industry.
Frank Greenall: One Cook, too many critics
Captain James Cook would probably be embarrassed by the attention we still accord him.
Guy Gifford: When is a religion not a charity?
Advancement of religion should be withdrawn as a gateway to the Charities Register.
Letters: Tech exists for electric farm utes
New drive system has an electric motor and drive train on each wheel.
Alleged bullying by MPs cuts across party lines
Bullying may prevent a clear and honest debate on the issue of choice in the way we die.
Letters: Storm drain for river floods
As a solution to managing floods, the kind of storm drains used in LA could be an option.
Soil scientists, not farmers, to blame for nitrogen leaching in pastures
Worms the answer to aerate soil, create humus, boost fertility and encourage bacteria.
Pine trees cast shadow of death over NZ native plants and animals
'When we allow our precious land resource to be taken over by pines, what does NZ have?'
Letters: Church forgives monarchs
And the man in the sky? I expect he will survive whatever Charles does, more's the pity!
Dani Lebo: How we're losing the ability to roll down a hill
We need to use it or lose it so we don't get ourselves into a rut.
Terry Sarten: The Little Country that Could and Should
It should be easy to protect children in a small country where everyone knows one another.
Letters: To prevent suicide you must talk to family, friends and spouses
There is nothing to be ashamed of. It's an illness — like any other illness.
Ian McKelvie: Inconsistent government has created confusion and uncertainty
We're a small country, a long way from many of our markets. We must be competitive.
Letters: We need a bylaw to the homeless people on our city streets
Do we need a council bylaw to deal with street beggars and people sleeping rough?
Letters: Sober view on euthanasia
All credit to those willing to ease the suffering of a dying person.