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Dave Mac for Mayor: July 2010
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Joyce's bad on trains - needs to talk to us to get his facts straight. The admission by Transport Minister Stephen Joyce that he had got his facts wildly wrong last week in Parliament while slagging off the proposed Hamilton – Auckland passenger rail service has led to an invitation being issued for him to visit Hamilton and discuss “facts, not prejudices”. 8220;While we are pleased that Minist...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: Hamilton Job Losses should be fought against
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Friday, August 16, 2013. Hamilton Job Losses should be fought against. The announcement two weeks ago by AgResearch of a restructuring proposal which will lead to 180 science-related jobs being lost from Hamilton's Ruakura campus has bought deafening silence from the leaders of the city. It does the CEO and Mayor no credit at all that they have refused to provide a forum for discussion of these job losses, which will se...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: September 2011
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Monday, September 26, 2011. What will it be like in 20 years if we do nothing? After 3 weeks in England, it is blindingly obvious that every local and regional (County) Council is asking itself the question: ‘ what will our cities and towns be like in 20 years if we just do ‘business as usual’ and don’t seriously address the growing car problem? Well-used shared cycle/walkways parallel the guided busway out of the towns...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: May 2012
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Minister should think more carefully on asset sales. Local Government Minister David Carter needs to think carefully before advocating sweeping asset sales by local councils, as he seems to be doing at the moment. The lessons of Rogernomics and Ruthanasia have not been learnt by Governments that think you can balance the ledger with one-off asset sales. But don't sell pensioner housing, and communi...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: June 2010
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Friday, June 11, 2010. Traffic Problems at the Base to worsen before they improve! Residents of the northern suburbs will be acutely aware of the traffic problems both inside and outside The Base at certain times of the week – Saturdays regularly being a problem. 8226; Farmers Mall at The Base (with nearly 1,000 extra carparks). 8226; New development at the Base to the north of Mitre 10. In addition, Council is aware th...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: Minister should think more carefully on asset sales
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Sunday, May 20, 2012. Minister should think more carefully on asset sales. Local Government Minister David Carter needs to think carefully before advocating sweeping asset sales by local councils, as he seems to be doing at the moment. The lessons of Rogernomics and Ruthanasia have not been learnt by Governments that think you can balance the ledger with one-off asset sales. But don't sell pensioner housing, and communi...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: October 2010
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Friday, October 15, 2010. Community organisation wins the day! I've attended two great events in the last two days that show the great value in communities organising for things they want or need. Today (Friday 15th Oct) I was at the opening of the 4km Horsham Downs to Hamilton cycling/walking track - not something that either Waikato District or Hamilton City Councils had installed FOR the community, BUT a facility tha...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: Why your elected reps NEED to be in the kitchen!
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Sunday, June 3, 2012. Why your elected reps NEED to be in the kitchen! Wairere Dr soon to look like. This, say HCC engineers. Councillors had asked management for over 2 years. HCC management continues to assure us that engineers are not determining Council policies, and that elected members really do have the chance to make decisions on key transport issues – but their response inevitably calls into question who ...
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Dave Mac for Mayor: Are Engineers & NZTA collaborating to 'gold-plate' roading projects?
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Dave Mac for Mayor. Current Hamilton City Councillor, standing for Mayor of Hamilton. Monday, June 25, 2012. Are Engineers and NZTA collaborating to 'gold-plate' roading projects? Today a constituent complained to me about the $4.5M cost of removing a roundabout in front to Hamilton's 'The Base' and replacing it with a full traffic-. Signalled intersection. His complaint is quite justified, and I replied. Needless to say, Councillors who are not so familiar with transport issues (which is most of us now,...
