Still another day before city council candidates have to file their campaign spending reports. They’ll be online at the Campaign Spending Commission when they’re filed tomorrow. I notice a story in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, the newspaper in the town where Meda and I went to college, about public interest in (and controversy over) [...]
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Sunday. Time for a break. It’s been hot, humid, and overcast the past several mornings. I can’t tell yet whether today will follow this pattern. It’s still humid, but there’s a slight breeze. Sunrise today will be at 6:02, so it’s still a little early (at 5:25 a.m.) to get any sense of what that’s [...]
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Well, the Superferry Alakai and its sister ship are now docked in Virginia waiting a possible lease deal with the Navy, according to the Virginian-Pilot. But even that deal apparently isn’t straight forward. Legal issues with the maritime administration related to its loan guarantees to build the ferries and operate them commercially would have to [...]
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I noticed an interesting detail in a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the city earlier this month. The suit is the latest in a series of efforts by city officials to find out why the Environmental Protection Agency turned down Honolulu’s request for a waiver of secondary treatment requirements for the Honouliuli and Sand [...]
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I checked the clock, got out of bed, and walked down the hall to feed the cats about 4:45 this morning. Somewhere between the bedroom and the kitchen, our part of Kaaawa lost electricity. Luckily, it came back on within about 20 minutes or so. Could that be considered a good start to the day? [...]
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Electricity went off in Kaaawa a little before 5 a.m., was back in about 20 minutes. Then, another 20 minutes, off again. We’re in the dark now. I’m running on battery power with Sprint broadband card to do this update. I’ll be back later whenever power is restored.
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I made a quick trip over to visit my dad at lunch yesterday at the skilled nursing facility on Beretania Street where he’s been since the end of last year. When I arrived, he was in bed asleep, but the cart bringing lunch was being wheeled down the hallway, so I woke him up. He [...]
Tags: alzheimers·dementia
Regular quarterly listings of city personal services contracts reported to the City Council since the beginning of 2005 have been altered to remove all names before being disclosed to the public despite a state law requiring details of such contracts to be available for inspection and copying . [see Section 92-F(a)(10)] The reports are prepared [...]
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