It turns out that we’ve had both bad news and good news on this Feline Friday regarding Duke and Silverman, our two diabetic boys. The bad news is that Silverman had a hypoglycemic episode while boarding at VCA during our trip last week. His glucose level dropped dangerously low. His insulin dose was adjusted downward [...]
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It was in a box of papers uncovered yesterday afternoon as I slogged through another section of a small storeroom at my parents’ home in Kahala. The papers are dirty, faded, and covered with a fine layer of dust and rather old looking termite droppings and other bits of unknown origin. The papers included bits [...]
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Bill Moyers website, Moyers & Company, is well worth regular visits. Lots of good stuff here. Here’s an informative one from a couple of weeks ago: “Slideshow: Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act.” This adds important substance to criticisms of the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of “leaks,” up to and including the secret surveillance [...]
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If you’re tracking power and influence, one obvious measure is an organization’s presence at the State Capitol as it tries to shape legislation in its own interest. Eleven organizations that are represented by registered lobbyists in Hawaii consistently ranked among the top 25 in lobbying-related expenditures, according to reports filed with the State Ethics Commission. [...]
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It’s not always bright and sunny in Kaaawa in the early morning, and we aren’t always walking on the beach. Here are a couple of recent photos with a slightly different sense of place.
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Antique Alley, a unique resource of modern cultural history and artifacts, is being evicted. The store on the ground floor at 1347 Kapiolani is owned and operated by Pake Zane and Julie Lauster. It has been the one stable business in a building that has seen numerous others come and go over the past 25 [...]
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Altria, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies formerly known as the Philip Morris Companies, spent far more than any other interest group lobbying state lawmakers between 2006 and 2012, according to lobbyist reports filed with the State Ethics Commission. Altria Client Services, the subsidiary handling lobbying, litigation, and other aspects of the tobacco company’s [...]
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We were at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., in time to watch the sunrise yesterday morning. And we were at home in Kaaawa in time to pour a glass of wine and watch the reflections of the sunset from over the mountains. That’s a pretty amazing day. So we’re catching up after being away [...]
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