Our walks down to the beach on these summer mornings are sunny and warm. Actually, it’s hot on most mornings, at least by the time we turn around and start back towards home. There’s at least one other regular walker who adjusts her schedule during the summer to avoid the summer sun. She’s just finishing [...]
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I was glad to see the story in today’s Star-Advertiser concerning this morning’s City Council Budget Committee hearing on a resolution that would disband the Clean Water & Natural Lands Commission. The daily newspaper, despite its shortcomings, is still one of the best ways to get an issue out to the general public. But the [...]
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What a deal! After stalling and deferring necessary sewage upgrades for his six years in office, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann yesterday announced a settlement in the long running environmental lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club. The announcement comes just weeks before he walks out of city hall to make his run for governor, leaving behind [...]
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Mike “Big Mike” Palcic and a group calling itself the Hawaii Republican Assembly probably erred by including House Speaker Calvin Say among the recipients of a June 23 email blast with the subject, “Help Support Hawaii’s Republican Candidates for State House and Senate in 2010″. The email was addressed to Say at his state capitol [...]
Did you catch Derrick Depledge’s story in yesterday’s Star-Advertiser about the bill (HB 1212) that would cut off public access to any information about consumer complaints filed with the state unless the complaint is first investigated and processed? Even the existence of the complaints will remain confidential until that point. The story fills out the [...]
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A City Council committee will consider a resolution this week calling for disbanding the Clean Water and Natural Lands Commission, which was set up after voters approved a 2006 change to the City Charter setting aside funds for protection for “still undeveloped and important environmental and aesthetic assets…vulnerable to ongoing development, commercial interests, and urban [...]
SPJ announced the winners of its annual “Excellence in Journalism” competition on Friday night. Congratulations to all the journalists who took home awards that night. The big winner was the Honolulu Advertiser, the newspaper that was dismantled to create the new Honolulu Star-Advertiser, which was boosted by William Cole’s “Bad Blood: The Ambush of Chosen [...]
Credit where credit is due. We stopped at Safeway to pick up something to take along to dinner at a friend’s house late yesterday afternoon, and I grabbed a few bananas as a simple coupon test. Lo and behold, this time they rang up at the special “Just for U” price. No muss, no fuss. [...]
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