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by Ralph Nader / July 16th, 2021 Kicking life-saving solutions endlessly down the road is the mark of the brutish power of the corporations over the innocents. Fifty years ago, medical research warned about the overuse of antibiotics creating mutations of resistant bacterium, making these drugs less effective. Dr. Sidney Wolfe warned about this criminal negligence again and again, along with other colleagues. But the drug companies kept over-promoting to get physicians to over-prescribe. Today, antibiotic resistance takes over 100,000 lives a year just in the U.S. Some bacterium are mutating ...

Wellington City councillors are scrambling to overturn a decision to extend paid parking hours. The change would come into effect within three months, with paid parking on Fridays and Saturdays to finish at 8pm in the meantime. The council agreed in February to extend metered parking hours to 8pm from Sunday to Thursday, and 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Existing metered hours are 8am to 6pm from Saturday to Thursday, and 8am to 8pm on Friday. Changes to Sunday-to-Thursday parking hours will apply from July 5 as planned. The February proposal was agreed to by Foster and 12 other councill...

Fellow board member: "He hasn’t fully left behind his former role as chief executive."

Councillors make late decision to spend extra $106 million on cycleways as part of record 10-year capital investment that includes $2.7 billion to fix water pipes.

Councillor Iona Pannett said the decision marked a “great day” for Wellington, while colleague Teri O’Neill said the council had a “moral responsibility” to give Māori a greater voice at the council table. Deputy Mayor Sarah Free said the majority of objections to establishing a Māori ward were based on not following democratic process, but “ideas about what’s deemed fair have been changing rapidly over the past two decades”. She pointed to the change in New Zealand’s general election voting system from first past the post to MMP (mixed-member proportional) in 1996. Co...