A closing of the browser tabs Dave Frame batting back the usual (often older) arguments from those who don't like climate science.   Ali...

A few spots you may have caught me recently... Olivia Wannan asked me about some of the carbon spend in the most recent budget. It's ju...

Oliver Lewis over at BusinessDesk had a look through Treasury documents on the Christchurch Stadium. Treasury suggested a Council-led appro...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

The closing of the many tabs: EU trade talks with NZ are on. European consumers who worry about food security, food prices, and access to t...

This afternoon's worthies, as I try to free up system resources so the Zoom session I'm listening in on might work a little better: ...

Newsroom put up a superb piece last week on all of the messes that Dunedin got itself into by spending stupid amounts of money on a stadium ...

 The afternoon's closing of the browser tabs brings the following worthies: Superb news! The police have taken an operational decision n...

Alas, Bernard didn't keep the headline I'd picked for this week's Newsroom column .  It's about whether it makes sense to...

Here's James Dann and Barnaby Bennett on the mess around the Christchurch stadium. Sporting events would create around 20 big occasio...

If you're going to build a stadium, don't do it in hopes of boosting GDP. Sam Richardson ably surveys the international literature...

Matthew Hooton nails this one , with some help from Andrew Zimbalist: I do know that the Cricket World Cup has been an outstanding success...

We still don't know whether Christchurch will get a big covered stadium. Meanwhile, in Dunedin : The idea of mothballing Dunedin...

It must be May. The Christchurch Press is reporting that Council is considering selling some assets to pay for the quake . May 2, 2011 : T...

Auckland is to get a large new convention centre, to be built and run by Sky City, Auckland's casino. I chatted with Radio New Zealand...

Sam Richardson points out some problems with the proposed stadium-plus-office-towers combo for Christchurch: It is not clear yet where ex...

The Christchurch Press tells us that the Canterbury Crusaders have paid half of their last year's profits to the Christchurch Stadium T...

Breathtaking. The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment produced a report, " The Stadium of Four Million ", on the 201...

Football is for Republicans, baseball for Democrats?  StubHub is the secondary market for sports and concert tickets in the States. T...

The rather strong consensus of the academic literature shows that government subsidies to sports stadiums fail to deliver promised economi...