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		<title>The 2010 mayoral election is about job creation and transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted] The Fairfax Press has been talking about how Wellingtonians are expected to bail out some loss-makers, such as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. And that the decision to do this has been made behind closed doors. The city’s debt is over $200 million—we were looking at very similar numbers at the time of the 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Peter Jackson deserves a knighthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Lucire &#64257;rst broke news yesterday about Peter Jackson’s knighthood in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours’ List—before any New Zealand media did—I was particularly delighted.
&#160; &#160;Peter Jackson deserves a knighthood not just because he makes marvellous &#64257;lms. Peter Jackson deserves a knighthood because he continues to believe in New Zealand even after certain bodies and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wake-up calls from Global Entrepreneurship Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second week of November, I attended two functions for Global Entrepreneurship Week. The first was Wellington to the World 2009, where numerous local businesses, who had made it big worldwide, got a chance to talk about how they leveraged the internet. Solutions such as social media, virtual working and licensing were among the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being sensible about pedestrianizing Wellington</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve heard a bit about permanently pedestrianizing Wellington City over the last few weeks. My first thought was: that seems to be an interesting take on my carless day idea, which I proposed here many months ago. My second thought was: weren’t these people around last month?
&#160; &#160;This was an October which was the coldest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting it out there: things we can make more transparent</title>
		<link>http://yourwellington.org/2009/10/putting-it-out-there-things-we-can-make-more-transparent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I oppose the installation of water meters—let’s not give technocrats a chance to charge us for something that we should get for free, living on an island—I believe in transparency. Wellington already does well in putting government valuations online, so why not more?
&#160; &#160;As I discussed transparency with some of my colleagues at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What you want for Wellington, I want, too</title>
		<link>http://yourwellington.org/2009/09/what-you-want-for-wellington-i-want-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers: the more I think about these ideas on this site and your feedback over the last few months, the more I believe I need to run for mayor in order to deliver them.
&#160; &#160;What’s quite sad as I examine the candidates for the mayoral elections on October 9, 2010 is that these issues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wellington and San Francisco need to be sister cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has totally surprised me, when chatting to former mayor James Belich, that Wellington is not sister cities with San Francisco. In fact, we lost this connection in the 1980s. The benefits are obvious: not only are the two cities similar in terms of culture, politics and topography (let’s count the fault lines going through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The water meter issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was manning one of the stands at the Newtown Fair earlier this year, we had a petition for Wellington residents to oppose the adoption of water meters and charging for water. I noticed that the campaign has continued today outside the Newtown Mall.
&#160; &#160;By the looks of things, today’s campaigners were more successful, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An IT park in Kilbirnie?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During another meeting today, the idea of an IT park in Kilbirnie makes sense. There’s that data pipe already heading out toward Miramar, and this could help rejuvenate the Kilbirnie area. There’s so much going for what I regard as my home ’burb. I understand ideas are currently being collected at committee level there, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A summer&#8217;s day free of traf&#64257;c</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Yan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the highlights in recent memory for Wellingtonians were the &#64257;lm premières of Peter Jackson’s films, namely The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King and King Kong. The city, closed to traffic, was manageable, and I venture to say that most Wellingtonians were not too upset at the inconvenience.
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