When I looked into the Safeway shopping cart and saw this advertisement, I couldn’t make out the fine print but I could hear the dialog. And I figured the ad agency must have been clueless. Eh, wat, you no like State Farm? Nah, brah, nobody like State Farm. Just to be clear, this isn’t meant [...]
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Sunrise on the last day of 2009. Viewed from the beach in Kaaawa, Hawaii. And it came complete with a “green flash” as the sun appeared over Molokai.
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Found in Kaaawa about 2 p.m. on New Year’s Eve (12-31-09). She was running in front of a bus on Kamehameha Highway near Ohelokai Road. She is well cared for, clean, and friendly. If you recognize her, please call Robb & Jennie at 778-5382.
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As bales of compacted garbage continue to stack up at Hawaii Waste Systems in Leeward Oahu awaiting shipping to a landfill in Oregon, it’s beginning to look like the company could have problems meeting the requirements imposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The company was selected to send Honolulu’s refuse for burial in an [...]
It could take up to 35 years for the state to recover nearly $1 billion invested in so-called “auction rate securities”, members of two key legislative committees were told on Tuesday. During an informational briefing before the Senate Ways and Means Committee and House Finance Committee, legislators questioned whether state officials exceeded their authority and [...]
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We live with eight cats. Not a single dog is part of our household. But we’ve adjusted by making friends with dozens of dogs that live along the route we take every morning while walking to the beach and back to watch the sun rise. This photo features Piko and Murphy. Piko has been a [...]
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A Christmas confrontation in Laie between the real estate arm of the Mormon church and a Hawaiian family trying to protect their kuleana land rights and burial sites ended with several arrests after police used pepper spray against four kupuna engaged in a nonviolent protest. The group, accompanied by supporters, was expected to return to [...]
Thanks to Betty Shimabukuro for her story, “The incredible shrinking Sam“, in today’s Star-Bulletin. It chronicles chef Sam Choy’s 150-pound weight loss through a program of diet and exercise supervised by a personal trainer. Choy has changed the way he eats, Shimabukuro reports. But when I mentioned it to Meda, she came right back with [...]
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