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Letters: Auckland growth, property investors, vaccination pace and light rail 12 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 9 minutes to read Is central Auckland already too densely populated? Photo / Michael Craig NZ Herald Groan pains After being put up this week in an Auckland CBD accommodation unit, 14 floors up, looking out over similarly small units, with many even higher up, I can see why your editorial (NZ Herald, April 9) makes perfect sense. Indeed, we have a rather sparsely populated nation, where an absolutely unexpected newcomer, called Covid-19, has forced many of us to reinvent ourselves; work from home part-time; all the time or even have a fully remote-controlled business model. ....
Life, and business, are inherently uncertain – as this last tumultuous year has reminded us. The secret to success in both involves realising that uncertainty and change are inevitable and inescapable – and embracing them both. The secret to success as a leader is to help your people do precisely that, writes Campbell Macpherson. ....
Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio That would greatly limit Netanyahu’s ability to pass legislation or influence Knesset committees while serving as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed. However, Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett has yet to decide whether he will join this attempt to gain control of the Knesset. Seventeen of the lawmakers being sworn in on Tuesday are first-time Knesset members. On Monday, they attended an orientation at the Knesset in which they learned how to vote, how to draft and enact legislation and what their working conditions will be. One major job the new Knesset will have to do even if no government is formed is electing the next president. By law, the Knesset must choose a new president by June 9, a month before President Reuven Rivlin’s seven-year term ends. ....
In ‘Unsolaced,’ a writer returns with alarm about the present and future By Gretel Ehrlich. Pantheon Books, 2021. 237 pages. $26.95. ’Unsolaced: Along the Way to All That Is, ’ by Gretel Ehrlich It’s been 37 years since “The Solace of Open Spaces,” Gretel Ehrlich’s well-known and loved classic book about her life in Wyoming, was published. After a dozen more books of lyrical writing about her life, travel, and inquiry into the fate of the world, she’s returned with what she calls a “bookend” to that early book. The essays in “Unsolaced,” some incorporating material from previous books and essays, form a sober recollection and reflection, not just of the author’s Wyoming years, but in response to her travels in Greenland, Africa, Kosovo, Japan, California and Alaska and the fragility of life on our planet. Throughout, Ehrlich, now in her 70s, struggles with the idea of finding solace in wide-open nature or anywhere at all, and rede ....
Then a turning point. The needle point. A sticking point. Fact or farce? Anti-vaxers. Mask deniers. Or not. Now Remember these days of grievance and grief. Many died. More cried. We survived. Sakes alive! Amen. ....