It’s one of those crunch times at the State Capitol as the legislature moves towards its first major deadline, First Decking, on Friday, March 6. By the end of that day, all bills must be filed, or decked, in the House or Senate for a required 48-hour period of review. Bills then have to pass [...]
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Have you checked out Doonesbury recently? Yesterday’s cartoon was too close to home. As a friend wrote in an email, “This isn’t funny, it’s personal.” HB 1212, which would close off public disclosure of consumer complaints filed about licensed professionals, is scheduled to be heard by the House Judiciary Committee this afternoon at 2:05 p.m. [...]
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The House Judiciary Committee has filed Standing Committee Report No. 627 on HB 539, the controversial bill regarding corporate campaign contributions. The text of the HD1 can be found here. Unfortunately, the committee report is silent on the reasons for moving the bill forward with such grossly unpalatable amendments.
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It’s still not too late! Just click on this picture for more taken yesterday afternoon. They are beautiful, hand raised, and they’re ready for adoption! Just let me know if interested.
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We were guided around Oklahoma last week by a pocket size Garmin GPS navigator. We bought it several months ago in anticipation of a trip that was cancelled, so hadn’t made much use of it until now. One word: Amazing. It took us through complicated freeway interchanges and found small country roads with equal ease. [...]
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We’re back from a week in Oklahoma. A snowstorm in Chicago derailed our flight plans yesterday, forcing a rebooking via Denver and Los Angeles, as well as hours of waiting. It ended up taking 18 hours from our arrival at the airport in Oklahoma City to claiming our bags in Honolulu. Whew. We didn’t get [...]
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Attorney General Mark Bennett has released an “informal” legal opinion addressing the issue of Gov. Lingle’s authority to order furloughs of state workers. The opinion was requested by House Speaker Calvin Say by letter dated January 22. The opinion, dated February 17, 2009, was drafted by James Halvorson and approved by First Deputy AG Lisa [...]
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Now it can be told. By now, we’re on a flight heading back to Hawaii after spending most of the week in Oklahoma. We decided not to say anything until we got home for “security” reasons. I can hear you now. Oklahoma? Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. Where the waving wheat [...]
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