There are still unanswered questions concerning the governor’s recent emergency proclamations that suspended various state laws for several different purposes. The one involving clearing of unexploded military munitions caught my attention because of the amount of money flowing to private contractors. Public relations materials distributed by the governor’s office painted a bleak, no-options picture of [...]
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Annie is often the cat that goes missing when the camera comes out. It’s usually because she’s out hunting. You can see the good hunting grounds in the background. Lots of places for cats to track prey, and she is definitely a hunter. When I caught up with her this week, I decided it was [...]
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The spouses of top staff to both U.S. Senator Dan Inouye and Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie are employed by companies owned by politically-active local businessman, major campaign contributor, and government contractor, Joseph G. Pickard. John Sabas, who is married to Inouye’s chief of staff, Jennifer Goto Sabas, has been a consultant to Commuity Planning and [...]
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Back to that work clearing unexploded weapons from sites on the Big Island. According to news accounts, the work is being done by a local company, Environet Inc. It seems that one person’s dangerous unexploded bullets and bombs are another person’s gold mine. According to the federal government site, www.usaspending.gov, Environet and its joint ventures [...]
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If you happen to be on the Big Island, you may have already heard about the UH Hilo Media Syposium scheduled for Saturday, October 1. The day-long event, was organized by journalist Tiffany Edwards Hunt, advisor to the University of Hawaii-Hilo student newspaper, Ke Kalahea, among other hats she wears. I’ll defer to the write-up [...]
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The Star-Advertiser reports today that a circuit court judge is “leaning towards” ordering the city to pay the newspapers legal costs in a lawsuit seeking public disclosure of the tapes of 911 calls during a June 3 shooting incident that left one person dead and two wounded. In response to the suit, the city has [...]
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The Abercrombie administration could improve its situation by making more information available to the public. Take the emergency proclaimation that suspends various laws in order to facilitate the removal of unexploded military ordnance from land controlled by the state and counties. It has provided only the slimmest public rationale for the range of laws being [...]
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It was still and calm this morning in Kaaawa, with Molokai and Maui clearly visible in the distance, although hard to make out in this wide-angle photo. How can the day possibly live up to this beginning?
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