Budget Vote Puts Maintenance Ahead of Ribbon-Cutting
In a close vote, councillors agreed to ring-fence repairs before approving a single new capital project.
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The Three Numbers That Explain This Morning’s Shift
A compact guide to the rate decision, the labour revision and the signal hiding in household spending.
The Wind Farm That Learned to Wait
Paying a generator to switch off sounds absurd. The economics of storage are beginning to make it look like good business.
Night Buses Get a Second Look
A six-month pilot of later services has changed who rides at midnight, and what the network thinks it is for.
Five Ideas Worth Carrying Into the Week
A reading list about attention, institutional memory and the value of leaving some questions open.
The City After the Commute
What happens when a city stops organising every part of its life around the journey to work?
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Live: Council weighs the Harbourside data hub
Follow the day’s arguments over a proposed municipal data hub, from the first briefing to the final amendment.
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Between Arrivals
A platform, a crossing, a shelter, a bridge: a photo essay on the places we pass through on the way to somewhere else.
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“Start With the People Who Stay”
The designer Marit Solheim on libraries, permission and why a public room should never make people purchase their right to remain.
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A Moment of Attention
Not every video needs to compete with the pace of an alert. A short, quiet sequence can change what a story asks of its reader.