Overbearing?
OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the job description of PR is to grease the wheels and ensure clients get good media coverage.
“The rules and costs imposed on us for the most basic developments are prohibitive,” one Wellsford farmer told the canine crusader. “They’re unnecessary and arbitrary rules, all the extra costs sheet back to the landowners and it’s just not worth trying to develop anything.”
There were plenty of warnings that bringing a rural district under the super-city umbrella wouldn’t work.
In 2009, then-Rodney Mayor Penny Webster was unhappy with the boundary and representation changes.
She said Rodney would be poorly represented on the proposed council, with only one or two councillors. Time to secede?
