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Entries from April 6th, 2010

Group plans sit-in at Gov. Lingle’s office to demand action on restoring Furlough Fridays

April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Politics

Save Our Schools, a group formed to oppose Furlough Fridays, is planning a sit-in at Gov. Lingle’s office on Wednesday afternoon, April 7, starting at 2:30 p.m. The group says it is going to Lingle’s office with two demands. 1) Linda Lingle herself be present in discussions with HSTA/DOE/BOE 2) Linda Lingle personally commit to [...]

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Portuguese Man o’ War (with corrected link)

April 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · General, Kaaawa, Photographs

We usually don’t pay much attention when the Portuguese Man o’ War are washed up onto the sand. Sometimes there are many of them. Often none. Yesterday there were a few. I finally stopped and took a closer look. This one was probably a little under two inches in lenth, with the long blue string [...]

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Wild & woolly conference committee season coming up

April 6th, 2010 · 3 Comments · General, Politics

You know that anything can happen in conference when House and Senate go on completely different tangents with the same bills. Looking at what’s happening on the Senate side, a couple of bills were called to my attention. For example, there’s HB 2690. It passed the House as a simple measure amending an existing law [...]

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