Pick ‘n’ Mix at 6am on Saturday, March 22

Alarming heart scan delays costing lives; Europe starts planning for NATO without US; Queenstown looking at diverting wastewater outflow directly into Shotover; A single bread roll for lunch

Here’s my selection¹ of scoops, breaking news, news, analyses, deep-dives, features, interviews, Op-Eds, editorials and cartoons from around Aotearoa’s political economy on housing, climate and poverty from RNZ, 1News, The Post-$², The Press−$, Newsroom/$³, NZ Herald/$, Stuff, BusinessDesk/$, Politik-$, NBR-$, Reuters, FT/$, WSJ/$, Bloomberg/$, New York Times/$, Washington Post/$, Wired/$, The Atlantic/$, The Economist-$, and more, as of 6am on Saturday, March 22.

In short: There’s plenty of budget cutting fallout in the health and education systems, with news of ongoing staffing and equipment shortages delaying heart scans and costing lives, while one school reports getting a single bread roll as the lunch offering from Compass this week. Also, Europe has started planning for a NATO without America and Heathrow is closed indefinitely.

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My Pick n’ Mix Top Six at 6am on Saturday, March 22