The Panel

"Nebraska. Honestly, it's not for everyone." A refreshingly honest regional slogan. But really, why bother? What the Panelists Jock Anderson and Nicky Pellegrino want to talk about. The results of a longitudinal study which started in 1960 is bearing some interesting fruit. Hundreds of thousands of U.S high school students took a test, as part of Project Talent. Now tens of thousands of esults have been compared with medical claims and medical records. Lower scores in 17 areas of cognitive ability correlate with developing Alzheimer's and related dementias. The Director of the Department of Geriatric Medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital Robert Prowse assesses some of the findings.

A FREE waterfront Auckland stadium. A 50,000-seat covered stadium to be built by the Auckland Waterfront Consortium in return for the right to build 2500 dwellings and commercial buildings nearby, and the right to re-develop the land where Eden Park stands now. We ask economist Sam Richardson - what's the catch? The phrase first coined by British PM Harold Wilson "a week is a long time in politics" couldn't be more apt for the New Zealand National Party this week. Political journalist Richard Harman sums up the accusations of "corruption", "electoral fraud", the betrayal, the texts, the tape, insults to Chinese and Indians, harassment of women, and other dastardly goings on.

So Poor old Wikileaks founder Julian Assange - he's clearly outstayed his welcome at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, they're quite cross with him.

We find the answers to any queries you can think up.

The Taxpayers' Union has looked into the purchase of vehicles for local politicians. They've come to the conclusion a lot are being too extravagant. Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull talks about his $60k Hyundai Santa Fe and motoring commentator Clive Matthew-Wilson talks about what value for money really is when it comes to buying a car from the public purse.

Dunedin's mayor Dave Cull thinks local alcohol policy has been severely watered-down after it was appealed by a group that includes supermarkets and liquor stores.He believes commercial interests are put ahead of the wellbeing of the community.

What the Panelists Lavina Good and Stephen Franks want to talk about.

A Nobel Prize-winning professor is being honoured by the University of Missouri with a special designated space for him in a bike rack on campus. It'll be a standard bike rack but there'll be a sign letting everyone know that this particular space belongs to a Nobel laureate.

The Tax Working Group is touting the idea for a wealth tax on baches. It would also apply to people who own second homes. The tax would only apply to the value of the property - not to any income from it.

Several women claim "grooming" and manipulation by former National Party MP Jami-Lee Ross. Meanwhile recorded comments are interpreted as disparaging to Indians. We talk to Sandeep Singh of the Indian Weekender news website. And we check in again with Richard Harman on the developments of the day around the Simon Bridges-Jami-Lee Ross saga.