Lee Cataluna’s column in today’s Honolulu Advertiser looks at the trouncing that veteran politico John Henry Felix took in the special city council election that wrapped up this week. She concludes that it was the district presence of Ikaika Anderson that rocketed him past Felix, who had garnered a long list of substantive endorsements. Cataluna [...]
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The State Ethics Commission issued two special advisories this week regarding ethics issues for legislators and lobbyists. In the first case, the commission advised legislators not to accept free tickets to events from a pair of nonprofit organizations that have funding requests pending in the current session. Dan Mollway, commission executive director and general counsel, [...]
How about those results in the special election to fill the District III vacancy on the Honolulu City Council? They provide another two newspaper moment. I read the Advertiser’s story with interest this morning and quickly realized that it never reported the actual vote. How many votes did the winner get? Advertiser readers don’t know [...]
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Yup, it’s that time again. I’m delivering the cats in their own entry today to make it easy for anti-cat people or agnostics to slip past without reading. On the other hand, cat people might enjoy seeing all of our eight cats in one place. I decided to let Ms. Harry (also known as Harriet) [...]
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City Councilmember Duke Bainum warned last week that the city’s rush to begin construction of the proposed rail transit system coupled with its insistence on a train running on an elevated concrete guideway for its entire distance “will create a Superferry-Like legal limbo for the rail project”. Bainum pointed to choices made by the city [...]
Legislative junkies take note–the budget worksheets comparing House and Senate positions are available online. These worksheets identify line item agreements and disagreements that are being negotiated in conference. Feel like an insider by getting a look at what they’re fighting over. The House Judiciary Committee (the one in D.C., that is) held a hearing on [...]
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An independent transit consultant predicted that Honolulu’s rail transit system could be “in trouble” because the city failed to deliver an environmental impact study that fulfilled what was promised in the official notice published in the Federal Register. Consultant Phil Craig told a gathering of architects that the Federal Register notice for the transit Environmental [...]
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The weather was fine downtown yesterday, with just a few periods of rain. But out on the Windward side was apparently a different story. Friends in Kaaawa measured something over 4 inches of rain starting before noon. By the time we were on the way home, somewhere between 5-6 p.m., it was miserable. And we [...]
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