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Coromandel cyclone recovery programmes could continue at cost to ratepayers

A proposal to carry on the work started through the cyclone recovery programme, but with millions of dollars in ratepayer funding, is proving to be a “hot...

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Tauranga commission chair Anne Tolley says she was not involved in disinviting speaker at election event

Tauranga city chief commissioner Anne Tolley says she had nothing to do with a ratepayer representative being disinvited from speaking at an election...

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Tauranga election: Council cancels ratepayer leader's invitation to speak at candidate event

A Mount Maunganui ratepayer representative has been disinvited from speaking at a council election information evening after his involvement in a survey that...

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Letters: 'Super-city' experiment in Auckland 'a decade-long disaster'; nicotine addiction; and failing services

The “super-city” political experiment in Auckland is a decade-long disaster. Despite being sold benefits of increased efficiency, productivity and...

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Tauranga council approves $1.06m extra for CBD carpark project after 'unforeseen' issues arise

“Unforeseen design complexities” at a CBD carpark building have cost more than $1 million in extra, unbudgeted ratepayer money - just weeks after the council...

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The Ingraham Angle

wellmeans., i think that's exacy right, jason .te that and youd commentedon on tg before the average price ofe ofa a new ev.ew the ap just had a piece on this isst yesterday is fifty eight thousand dollars. who's buying evs? it's the benz and beemer crowd . these numbers are very welevl known. the average household income foeragr ev buyer is one hundred and forty thousand dollars a year. that's140,000 a twice the nati average household income. sool this is very much a class s issue. and it's not just about tab the affordability oficle the vehicles themselves. it's about the upgrades thats the to the grid that we're all going to have to pay fore through the great basin, through our taxes. ta solkin the biden administrationh course, is talking about earginv charging stations. i get that. sta but most people don't have charging the most american homes don't have an ability to charge in ev at home. so what is this going to require? massive upgrades to the electric grie massivesd that art to be rate based and then make every ratepayer will havethese to pay for these upgradeupsl be

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Rotorua Lakes Council rates: Potential 7.2 per cent rise for the district

Councillors will vote to approve the plan for consultation next week.

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Newscast

because i don't think it. actually reflects the lived experiences of anybody. i it doesn't really work like that. i so you may lose yourjob, i but that's the top of this very steep hill you've got to. and i think it's much more interesting, important- and relevant to talk- about the steepness of that hill — whether you are in recession or not. i bobby? mathematically, if you think of recession as a normal distribution, so in the middle part is, yeah, that is the economy shrinking. but if you look at the people in the bottom 10, 20%, they're being impacted much more by, again, the cost of living crisis. again today, one of the measures was the freeze in the threshold allowance, and i was thinking, actually, i'm a fan of a rupaul's drag race, and i think the chancellor's new name will be fiscal drag, because, you know, at 12,500, he's frozen that threshold he's frozen that threshold couple of years, and that's going to impact a lot of my students, a lot of my families that i teach. they'll suddenly be paying income tax. exactly, yeah. so you can bandy the word "recession", but actually, whatever the reality is, it's going to impact them much more, people in the middle. and actually somebody who'd never consider themselves a 40p ratepayer might in the next

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CNN Tonight

>> the green new deal is an absolute disaster. everybody realizes that. you have to incentivize using your own fuel. new england is at the end of the natural gas pipeline, because all natural gas comes up through new york, into new england, and unfortunately a lot of our surrounding states have shut down their natural gas plants and things that provide reliability. nobles are great. you've got to have a good balance of renewables, and growing, that but there has to be a transition into that process. first thing, do no harm. stop signing bad legislation. stop signing things for political reasons. and look at our energy policy through the lens of the ratepayer. it's those folks on low incomes, the elderly, folks on pensions, every time they turn on the light switch, they pay that electricity subsidy to subsidize all the renewables, just like everybody else. so it's not that you say no to it. but it's got to be the right balance. i love hydro. the river doesn't get shut off at night. the sun does go down, so solar isn't really as efficient as hydro, or offshore wind. not great for kansas, but a

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Free online class will help you save on your electric bill

The IFAS Extension Polk County will host a free “Zap Your Utility Bill” webinar at 12 p.m. on Zoom to share a long list of cost-saving tips.

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