Today was Kevin Dayton’s last day as a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, according to a report earlier this week in Pacific Business News. Dayton will be picking up where he left off with the administration of Big Island mayor Billy Kenoi. According to PBN: Dayton, who was the executive assistant to the Hawaii County [...]
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Random images of Auckland. “Because of women and land, men die.” Maori proverb, included in an exhibit at the War Memorial Museum on the terrible land wars of 19th century New Zealand. • • • Graffiti along Anzac Avenue, Auckland. • • • Poster in the window of the Auckland University Press office, Anzac Avenue, [...]
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It’s another Feline Friday and, as promised, time to meet two new kittens! No, not ours! Eight cats at home are enough. These kittens live next door. Casey and Cookie have just recently been adopted by our neighbors, David and Sandra. Casey, the little male, arrived first, and was joined by Cookie after it became [...]
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This view took us by surprise. It’s the view from our hotel room looking down across the docks in central Auckland. Not a bad view at all!
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The State Attorney General expects that any ruling in a lawsuit challenging the state’s 2012 reapportionment plan will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and has received approval from the state procurement office to hire a law firm with experience in relevant constitutional law. The lawsuit, Kostick v Nago, is pending in U.S. District [...]
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“Expert disputes girls’ crime wave” By Simon Collins, The New Zealand Herald November 29, 2012 A world expert on women and crime says a “moral panic” about violent girls is seeing more of them arrested and jailed, even though evidence suggests they are actually becoming less violent. Meda Chesney-Lind, a Hawaiian women’s studies professor who [...]
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Earlier this week, we were treated to a tour of the Auckland Zoo with my 2nd cousin, Pene Quin, who has volunteered for the zoo for more than a decade. She knows all the animals by name, and can recite everything about their backgrounds and behavior. And she knew to get us there just in [...]
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Here’s a media-related observation this morning from a regular reader: There has been some discussion on your blog about misleading headlines in various media stories. Here is a good example from a Hawaii News Now headline this morning: Man in serious condition after beaten by tree branches So, are they saying that the tree branches [...]
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