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The Hunter’s worst roads

4:00 AM | THREE of the five roads voted worst in the Hunter in the NRMA’s latest Seeing Red on Roads survey earned their status because of ‘‘general congestion’’. |

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Stopping the slaughter

4:00 AM | HUNTER Animal Watch Inc offers subsidised pet desexing to pensioners in the Lower Hunter (‘‘Desex all dogs’’ Herald 25/5). |

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If pipis go, the fish go

28 May 12 | I AM a regular Stockton beach fisher and have been for 15 years, and I have seen the population of pipis rapidly decline to the present level. |

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Drugs on the waterfront

28 May 12 | A FEDERAL-STATE police task force has reported anecdotal evidence that regional ports host ‘‘widespread criminality’’. |

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The high cost of housing

26 May 12 | HOUSE prices in the Hunter may have come down from their peak of a few years ago, but they haven’t fallen far enough to put an end to the region’s ‘‘housing affordability crisis’’. |

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Close the park at night

26 May 12 | THE mindless destruction of our history is abhorrent and disturbing (‘‘‘Senseless’ destruction’’ Herald 23/5). |

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Oversupply of animals

25 May 12 | AS Australia’s population becomes bigger and more urbanised, the issue of companion animals becomes harder to address. |

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25 May 12 | AS a long-time resident of a house opposite Ford and Kentish ovals at Lambton I wish the people who go to the football gala days on weekdays would take into consideration the people who live there when it is garbage day, and not park in front of our garbage bins. |

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Kurri Kurri’s smelter loss

24 May 12 | THE main problem that has confronted Kurri Kurri’s elderly aluminium smelter for the past year or two has been depressed global demand for the metal it produces. |

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Trees better elsewhere

24 May 12 | I AM writing about the report on the recent environmental vandalism of trees on a strip of harbour foreshore (‘‘Ocean views to kill for, as trees pay the price’’ Herald 18/5). |

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Insolvency and the law

23 May 12 | THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission says it has improved its supervision of insolvency practitioners. |

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The gates and history

23 May 12 | THERE are two points I want to clarify about the article ‘‘Gate-opener a real hero’’ (Herald H2 19/5).

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Keeping tabs on infection

22 May 12 | Medical authorities say that as many as one in five people carry the ‘‘golden staph’’ bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, on their skin or in their nasal passages with no observable effects. |

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Short shrift for subbies

21 May 12 | SUBCONTRACTORS might be forgiven for thinking they’d be assured of being properly paid when working on jobs for the NSW government. |

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Profits don’t stay here

21 May 12 | PORT Waratah Coal Services CEO Hennie Du Plooy (‘‘Company asked for response to catalogue of terminal concerns’’ Herald 17/5) said he believed most people supported the T4 coal terminal proposal because of the ‘‘immense economic and job opportunities it would bring’’. |

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Coal-loading a long game

19 May 12 | Ever since Newcastle was founded, its history has been punctuated by booms and busts in the coal industry. |

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Keeping dogs under control

18 May 12 | THE consequences of a dog being declared dangerous by a council under companion animal laws fall on the dog’s owner. |

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Much coal, too close

18 May 12 | WHEN I travel along the Golden Highway and see the dust haze over areas around Muswellbrook and Singleton, I wonder at what expense to our health the mining boom comes. |

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Reforming the railways

17 May 12 | The NSW government’s decision to split the state’s passenger rail services in two might be a step in the right direction, but it should go further.

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Straight off to the dump

17 May 12 | APPARENTLY the e-waste drop-off at Gateshead last Saturday was a great success, according to a spokesperson from Lake Macquarie City Council. |

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