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- Hard to believe that anybody thought it was a good idea to rebuild an old masonry building on reclaimed land when the city has trouble funding infrastructure for housing, but Wellington Council did. $180 million now for Town Hall. Wasn't the library also going to be $180 million?
- Chinese state media outlet correctly chides the Americans about America's lack of free trade in dairy.
- Solveig Lucia Gold, on what Princeton's done to her husband.
- It just seems less plausible to me that cat-caused toxiplasmosis runoff into salt water is a bigger problem for endangered dolphins than fishing bycatch.
- Enabling carbon capture and storage would be great.
- Marc Daalder summarises the state of play on long-Covid in NZ.
- I'd first heard of difficulties in making productive use of land held under Maori land tenure shortly somewhere around 2008. Tanira Kingi gave a talk about it at the Law & Economics Association meetings. It turned into a book chapter that's dated 2008 anyway. I can't remember the year of the LEANZ session - it was a day of sessions after the NZ Economic Association meetings. It's still a problem - great stuff from RNZ on it.
