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Entries from February 4th, 2012

Akaku challenges Oceanic’s digital channel transfer

February 4th, 2012 · 17 Comments · Business, Consumer issues, Politics

The following February 1, 2012 email from Jay April, president and CEO of Akaku: Maui Community Television, to DCCA Kealii Lopez challenges Oceanic Time Warner’s unilateral moves of several public access channels from analog to digital signals. Digital signals take much less bandwidth than analog, so the company can create several digital channels in place [...]

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Who’s pushing for gambling?

February 4th, 2012 · 26 Comments · Consumer issues, Politics

A regular reader asked a probing question about the current push for legislation to legalize gambling. Ian, Was wondering if you could take up this issue in your blog? I consider the legalization of gambling to be just as big of an issue facing Hawaii residents as rail. (Perhaps even bigger when you consider rail [...]

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