The New York Times has a great piece on what happens in high cost cities . Land use regulation has made San Francisco incredibly expensive. ...

The NZ government might be targeting housing affordability, with a median house price to income multiple measure of 5. From Hickey's Ne...

Newshub reports on the latest from Alcohol Healthwatch: "One-third of NZ's hazardous drinkers are now aged 35-54," says Alc...

The survivors in the browser tabs, each of which likely deserves its own post. The mess at Tolaga Bay seems one where you should get the ...

Labour's foreign buyer ban is back from select committee . Recall that I had a few issues with the prior draft: It catches people li...

In this week's NBR, I made the case for storing materials until it proves economical to recycle them. I think that is consistent with Au...

Eventually, you hit a tipping point with underresourced newsrooms where you kinda wonder whether they should just shut the thing down rathe...