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The ODT have printed my letter to the editor in full! Dear Editor, We need to keep the One-Way system as one way obviously, as NZTA/Waka Kotahi have explained, but to suggest that our One-Way works perfectly well as Cr. … Continue reading →

$2.5 million per year just to avoid making an inevitable decision? It is my unpopular duty to let Dunedin people know how far gone options are for the Middlemarch track. Can anybody suggest where the first $20 million might come … Continue reading →

This from ex-Southland Regional CEO Ciaran Keogh: abridged to meet FB word limit. Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2022 3:14 p.m. To: morgan.godfrey@otago.ac.nz Cc: j.ardern@ministers.govt.nz; opinion@stuff.co.nz; rebecca.ryan@oamarumail.co.nz; Christopher.Luxon@parliament.govt.nz : re your 3 waters article in Stuff 21 April Kia ora Morgan … Continue reading →

Sammy’s should never have been purchased without a clear intended use, especially since Council does not own the land under it and Council seems not to have explored earthquake, asbestos and other issues with the building prior to purchase.It is … Continue reading →

Good that Dunedin residents feel their quality of Life to be good, second only to Wellington. But look at the real data – Export Revenue and Business Growth – and we are bottom of the list. Dunedin needs to face … Continue reading →

We have lost Local Democracy and look like having control of our multi-billion$ 3 Waters Infrastructure taken from us as well. MP Mahuta’s promise of us having the ability to opt out of her 3 Waters asset grab was shamelessly … Continue reading →

The issues began with a DCC customer services employee refusing to record the Identification Number of a faulty parking machine that I went to get sorted [it soon was], then my complaint to DCC Management of the employee not doing … Continue reading →

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Monday, 7 March 2022 at 7:25 PMTo: Grant Miller <grant.miller@odt.co.nz>Subject: FW: Great King/SH1 from Pine Hill intersection grade separation Hi Grant, Not wishing in any way to have pre-empted Cr. O’Malley’s $400 million plus massive multi-lane … Continue reading →

Check my difficulties getting my doctor’s Ivermectin prescription supplied in my FB post of 12th October 2021. And note that the ODT again smeared me with false claims that I was promoting a horse medicine.

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/the-protestors-have-won

Not content with wasting $60 million turning George st/Exchange into a cycleway and wasting a further $53 million on ‘park-and-ride’, ‘way-finding’ and ‘traffic diversion’ projects to empty our city centre, our DCC Chair of Infrastructure now wants to throw a … Continue reading →

Organised resistance to the forced takeover of Dunedin’s $2.5 BILLION water assets by a self-selected 50% Iwi elite is ‘futile’ according to our Mayor. Not surprising when Mayor Hawkins unsuccessfully tried to get Council approval for his letter to MP … Continue reading →

Thursday, 9 December 2021 Paper Vandervis used often misrepresented: MoH By Grant Miller91468 News Dunedin Lee Vandervis. PHOTO: ODT FILESA document Dunedin city councillor Lee Vandervis relied on to argue against Covid-19 vaccine passes was revised by the Ministry of Health because … Continue reading →

From: Lee Vandervis <lee@vandervision.co.nz>Date: Friday, 10 December 2021 at 8:03 AMTo: EditorODT <editor@odt.co.nz>, “Nicholas. Smith” <nicholas.smith@xtra.co.nz>, Grant McKenzie <grant@alliedpress.co.nz>, Grant Miller <grant.miller@odt.co.nz>Subject: Out of the room on zoom? Letter to the Editor 129 words Letter to the Editor Out of … Continue reading →

Further CEO Graham claims include that an Elected Representative could adequately perform staff-interface, representative and debating round the Council table functions by remote zoom having been singularly excluded from Council Offices. The wholly unsatisfactory business of conducting just Council meetings … Continue reading →

I am not irate about being excluded from Council buildings as falsely claimed in today’s ODT, but I am deeply saddened. I am saddened for exclusion of ratepayers and especially the misery and strain being caused for DCC employees who … Continue reading →