This legislative alert was received from Donna Wong of Hawaii’s Thousand Friends. ACTION ALERT! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! WHAT’S HAPPENING – Your Free Speech is at Risk! As many of you know, Public Access Television is under a huge threat! For Oahu, Olelo Community Media will have to shut down its community media centers and [...]
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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 [...]
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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Here we go again. Another year, another bill to secret away important information about consumer complaints against licensed professionals, from real estate agents to auto mechanics to travel agents to massage therapists and more. HB 2298, “Relating to Privacy Rights,” is scheduled to be heard at 8:30 tomorrow morning (Tuesday, Jan. 31) before Rep. McKelvey’s [...]
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So what happens to all the foreclosed properties we read about in the news? Three foreclosed homes located behind the Kaaawa post office were recently bought by a real estate group specializing in buying and “flipping” depressed properties. The same group is already targeting two more homes in the neighborhood. Get Tubed LLC, owned by [...]
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Big Brother wants to now what you’re doing online. From CNET this morning: Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill [...]
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What’s going on over at the state Department of Defense? Makes you wonder…are these guys armed? The DOD is in the process of hiring two consultants to conduct confidential, one-on-one interviews with up to 70 employees “to obtain comprehensive, genuine, and sincere feedback on their feelings about their work environment.” The interviews will be analyzed [...]
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Representative Bob Herkes, chair of the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, submitted a sharp reply to the Star-Advertiser’s recent coverage of Hawaii’s foreclosure crisis and Act 48, which now regulates nonjudicial foreclosures. The Star-Advertiser declined to print the op-ed as submitted, and an editor explained the newspaper’s decision: As a general rule, we [...]
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