NSW election looms, but a bigger vote is due so we can stop waiting on crumbs from fat cats

BARELY a day passes without a story in the Newcastle Herald of the Hunter and the greater north being short changed and treated as second class.

There's the container terminal, coal royalties, Hunter stadium, sporting facilities and entertainment centre, roads and public transport, the tram extension that was promised but not delivered. And on and on goes the story of neglect by the Sydney government.