What choice do you have? Part time jobs are a wretched fact of life.
Yet how much better they seem, how much more momentous and influential, when recollected from a distance! From the armchair, through a haze of pipe smoke, our part-time jobs become good, useful, lovable things. For all their hassle and muck, they marked [...]
I never cook for one of my best friends. It’s just too irritating watching her surreptitiously pick out the mushrooms/onions/capsicums or whatever offends her and hide them around her plate. She won’t touch Brazil nuts (something about a fuzzy feeling in her mouth) and a banana will never pass her lips. She doesn’t seem to [...]
In the shadow of Huntly Power Station, Tainui kaumatua Tiki Green launches his boat into the Waikato River. The water is a muddy brown, stirred up by days of rain. At its edge an empty Coke bottle bobs about next to a cardboard juice box and a half-submerged plastic bag. Fifty years ago, Green’s [...]
In the shadow of Huntly Power Station, Tainui kaumatua Tiki Green launches his boat into the Waikato River. The water is a muddy brown, stirred up by days of rain. At its edge an empty Coke bottle bobs about next to a cardboard juice box and a half-submerged plastic bag. Fifty years ago, Green’s [...]
New Zealand is a small western democracy, located in the far south of the South Pacific. In strategic terms it is, as former Prime Minister David Lange once quipped, a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.
Our nearest neighbours are close to 1200 miles away, or as far away as Moscow from London. Our [...]
Mumraiz Akhtar dressed his three sons in their best sweaters Thursday for a special outing to the holiday animal market, to see the goats painted with fluorescent pink dots and the cows with necklaces of plastic flowers.
The boys begged their father to buy an animal. But he said no. The price of animals for the [...]
Homeowners can get a free energy efficiency rating for their boiler and advice on cutting their fuel bills under a new government scheme launched this week.
The initiative aims to help reduce carbon emissions by encouraging people to make their homes more energy efficient.
The Department of Communities and Local Government said most people were unaware that [...]
YAHOO looked to new leadership in its battle against Google. It was a bad week for automakers. Home Depot downsized by a unit, and Wal-Mart introduced products and services for the unbanked.
YAHOO UPHEAVAL What next for Yahoo? Terry S. Semel resigned Monday as Yahoo chief executive, amid growing shareholder dissatisfaction over the company poor performance [...]
CARBONDALE In a non-binding 4-to-3 vote, Carbondale town trustees have indicated they wouldn’t allow a Home Depot into the town. The Valley Journal reports that the contentious issue may yet be given directly to voters for resolution.In various permutations, the issue of big box stores has been debated for several years in Carbondale, located 30 [...]
CARBONDALE Town staff has recommended pursuing a flex zone development option for the controversial Crystal River Marketplace property, rather than one that would include a Home Depot or other large-format retailer.In a memo sent to town trustees Monday afternoon, Town Manager Tom Baker suggested that the Home Depot option, while potentially bringing in more revenues [...]