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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: SkyCabs
Offer Auckland Transport
Solution
The range of possible solutions to Auckland's passenger transportation dilemma has expanded with the introduction of an innovative new system known as SkyCabs.
2:
Keith
Rankin: The New American debate
At last there are signs in the United States that at least some influential people realise that, if we are to distribute income equitably in the world's modern high productivity economies, the labour market that we take for granted just cannot do ...
3:
Simon
Upton Valedictory - "Too Young - Too
Old"
It has been a privilege to serve here. But the House of Representatives needs constant replenishment with people who are not comfortable with its ways. On that count alone it is certainly time that I moved on.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
NEWSFLASH:
Gore Concedes Defeat
America has a president elect - Democrat Al Gore has conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush, handing him the presidency.
5:
Julz’s
World: Mad Cows And Frog
Legs
There are many initiations you go through to truly feel European. For starters there’s the welcoming kiss on the cheek, the number of air kisses being an art in itself (three in Switzerland, two in Spain and a variable number in other countries).
6:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - 14
December
Today’s questions of the day concerned: Police Funding – DIA Review Of Community Trusts – Food Price Increases – Minimum Youth Wages – Closing The Gaps – State House Privacy Issues – Police Savings – Sealords Sale To Nissui – ACC Double Payments – ...
7:
That
Truck Load Of Sludge Again
"I have been put on notice by my investors that if one truck load of sludge is dumped on the golf course then I am history." That was Adrian Chisholm speaking in Waiheke's Gulf News in Feb 1998.
8:
Eco-Economy:
The Vision And The Challenge
The Vision: that our beautiful world is big and rich enough to support an environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economic system, providing us all with physical security and social prospect.
9:
Gore
Pinched My Photos - Veteran Vietnam
Cameraman
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Famed "killing fields" combat photographer Al Rockoff says Al Gore lied and snatched his photos in 1971 during their military service in Vietnam, but revenge was achieved by Rockoff's Florida vote for George W. Bush.
10:
New
Poster On Anniversary Of Picket
Killing
A large black & red poster backing the waterfront union's stand against CHH's use of non-union labour on NZ wharves has just been issued by the Socialist Workers Organisation.
11:
Scoop
Images: Jenny Shipley With NZPA
Article
Opposition Leader Jenny Shipley in question time yesterday brandishing an NZPA report published as the lead in the Dominion on Saturday concerning Australian/NZ social security arrangements. On Friday the PM issued a press release calling this article ...
12:
Scoop
Images: Christmas Weather Around The
World
Christmas Day weather today came into view on the the NOAA supercomputer’s long range weather model. According to the forecast – which at this long range must be considered relatively unreliable – New Zealand is in for a mild Christmas day with temperatures ...
13:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Thursday, 14 December
1. Rt Hon JENNY SHIPLEY to the Prime Minister: Does her statement that: "The police deserve our support in doing their job better" reflect Government policy?
14:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day – 13
December
Today’s questions of the day concerned: Oz Migration And Benefits – NEST Copter Accidents – TPK and Department CEO’s Performance Pay – Criminal Immigrants – Trans Rail Corridors/National Rail Policy – Victims Rights – Auckland Transport Plans – ...
The shock closure of the Trentham Rifle Range to live firing signals another step in New Zealand's inexorable march towards a socialist-driven vision of utopia, where regulations dominate our every action. For over 100 years, Trentham has been used ...
16:
Scoop
Images: Banking Revolution Talked In Hill
St
Around 60 people turned up to the inaugural meeting/debate of New Zealand Banking Reform held at Connelly Hall in Hill St, Wellington, yesterday. Pictures from the evening follow...
17:
Scoop
Images: Watching Daddy's
Valedictory
Hon Simon Upton's children Geoffrey and Laura Upton were in the galleries at Parliament yesterday to watch their daddy's valedictory address yesterday afternoon. Photographs Mark Graham .
18:
Minimum
Wages To Increase – A Fairer Deal
New Zealand workers on the lowest rates of pay will receive an income boost in 2001, Minister of Labour Margaret Wilson and Youth Affairs Minister Laila Harré announced today.
19:
National
Radio Midday Report
Gore Concession Expected – Wairarapa Toddler – National Superannuation – Prison Site – Middle East Violence – GM Commission – Biosecurity – Car Theft Campaign – Cappuccino Capital
21:
Dropping
Under-25 Car Sticker Scheme
The Human Rights Commission supports the decision of the New Zealand Police to discontinue the Under-25 Car Sticker Scheme.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
Binoy Kampmark: Censorship Wars, Elon Musk, Safety Commissioners And Violent Content
Gordon Campbell: On The Public Sector Carnage, And Misogyny As Terrorism
Ramzy Baroud: NATO’s Never-ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully Is Faltering
Eugene Doyle: Joining AUKUS Not In NZ’s National Interest
Binoy Kampmark: The Australian Defence Formula, Spend! Spend! Spend!
Ian Powell: New Hospital Building Trumps ‘Yes Minister’ Hospital Without Patients