The nice thing about opening day at the Hawaii State Legislature is that if you plant yourself on place, you’ll eventually see a whole lot of friends and aquaintances as the crowds float by in search of food and contacts, however brief, with the movers and shakers who will fill the building for the next [...]
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After about 36 hours during which my brain put on a good imitation of an impacted fur ball, the head has started to clear although the rest of the body is slow to follow. But it’s opening day at the legislature, and I’m on tap to have my camera available as people come to visit [...]
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I woke up yesterday with a code. You know, one of those with a runny nose, scratchy throat, and later a bit of a fever. I’m dragging around this a.m. after crawling into bed last night still wearing the clothes I’d been wearing all day. It felt just too cold to change, although I’m not [...]
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It wasn’t too long ago that court reporter Ken Kobayashi took Gannett’s buyout offer and retired along with several others. Now he’s back covering courts for the Star-Bulletin. Today’s byline may not be his first in the S-B, but it’s the first I’ve noted during my early morning rounds. And in the continuing musical chairs, [...]
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Have you checked Google Maps recently? I was looking up the location of an address in Aina Haina last week and noticed little bus symbols on the map. Click on one of those little buses and it opens a window with the bus stop location, route number and destination of buses that stop there, along [...]
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We were driving home last night, somewhere on Kamehameha Highway between Kaneohe and the Hygienic Store, listening to the radio as the KHON weather muse pronounced it dry. Almost no rain anywhere, we were told. The problem was that we were in driving rain, the kind where you have to switch the windshield wipers to [...]
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We stopped at Foodland in Kaneohe on the way home to pick up a few things for dinner, and when we came out the reflections of the setting sun were spectacular. I took a few pictures, then had to pull off Kamehameha Highway into the Toyota dealership to get a better view. Even the utility [...]
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We’re getting that hard early morning rain in Kaaawa right now that recurs daily during most parts of the year. Typically it will pass in a few minutes and not define the day, but not always. The Honolulu Advertiser’s obsessive Hawaii headline hawker is back at work. Among today’s offerings: “Hawaii underground power lines costly” [...]
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