Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: auckland council

  • 2016 local government endorsements

    UPDATED: 30/9 with Sustainable Waikato and a busload of Wellington groups! It’s that time of the election season when various groups start putting out their naughty-or-nice lists of local government…

  • The other war of the polls

    The Dominion Post has been given access to two polls telling slightly different stories about the Wellington mayoral race: Two polls conducted in the past week have revealed Wellington’s mayoral…

  • A change underway in local government?

    Things feel pretty bleak on the left these days. It seems like the forces of short-sighted self-centered capitalism reign supreme, that darned mainstream media isn’t asking the questions we want…

  • What is going on with the local-government Right?

    Something really, really weird is going on in the right, and I’m not talking about John Key, who has politically driven a political referendum process about our national identity for…

  • The Epsom Paradox

    After watching several of my Twitter buddies disbelievingly live-tweet the ridiculous proceedings around the Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan the other night, I had some thoughts. The good folks of Twitter…