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Entries from June 27th, 2009

Saturday (2)…Goodbye Amazon, and Cagle on Jackson

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · General

From my outgoing email: Dear Amazon, I received your recent email threatening to cut of my “affiliate” status if a bill to tax Internet sales in Hawaii becomes law. You wrote: We regret to inform you that the Hawaii state legislature has passed an unconstitutional tax collection scheme that, unless vetoed soon by Governor Lingle, [...]

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Saturday…Aloha, Duke!

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · General

Hawaiian flags few at half-staff yesterday in honor of Duke Bainum, the doctor from Arkansas who stopped by Hawaii and stayed, was elected to the State House, the Honolulu City Council, and came within 1,300 votes of being mayor of Honolulu in 2004. Hundreds of people gathered at a memorial service in downtown Honolulu. The [...]

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