Just read a great post By Dom over at the liquor ladder. Sounds like the Hospitality Association wants to restrict liquor licensing to certain parts of Wellington (Courtney Place and Cuba St). But the Council, who seem to think the scenes in Courtenay Place late on Fridays and Saturdays represent “vibrancy”, and the Hospitality Association, […]
Duncan Garner has posed the question of whether we should charge tourists more to use DOC trails to save the 100 Kiwi jobs the government is cutting at DOC Should we charge tourists more to walk our DOC tracks and use our huts to save 100 kiwi jobs? Is this a shortsighted Govt? @RadioLIVENZ 3pm […]
Via Stuff this morning, great quotes from FIRST union leader Robert Reid: “Why should a worker suffer for being employed by a business that maybe shouldn’t exist,” As the debate about the living wage continues, we get yet another indication that unions are fine with unemployment – as their clients aren’t the unemployed. Dom Stephens […]
I was interested to see this article on stuff about Greenpeace arguing for a “green” economy. I even considered taking a peak at the report they have put forward by the “German Aerospace Centre’s Institute of Technical Thermodynamics” until I got to this bit at the end of the article Where the report stumbles is […]
Via @NBR I came across this awesome article on the Guardian about a cat named Orlando that was pitted up against some investment professionals and students in a stock picking challenge. How did the cat pick stocks? While the professionals used their decades of investment knowledge and traditional stock-picking methods, the cat selected stocks by […]
Howdy loyal TVHE readers. We’ve just done a bit of an upgrade/refresh to the blog theme and commenting system. The two major changes are: The theme is “responsive” so should re-size and look normal on any device Comments are being done through Disqus which allows a little more interactivity. Comments can still be left with […]