And the plot thickens. Among the documents relating to the failed Stevie Wonder concert gathered by the Senate’s Special Committee on Accountability so far is this one-page list of 2012 appearances by the performer. Included on the list is the August 18 concert at Stan Sheriff Center. Click on the list so see a larger [...]
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In an odd twist, the Florida company involved in the disappearance of a $200,000 payment made by the University of Hawaii Athletic Department claims to be the successor to a North Carolina firm linked to a ponzi scheme in which hundreds of people lost as much as $13 million. The website of Miami-based Epic Talent, [...]
Employees of the University of Hawaii’s Athletic Department had unusual direct access to top “system” level administrators, apparently allowing them to bypass routine administrative channels, reviews, and safeguards on the Manoa campus, according to the factfinders report on the background of the failed Stevie Wonder concert. The timeline outlined in the report appears to show [...]
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The Star-Advertiser this morning caught my attention with a story on a federal court decision in Honolulu that a man convicted of “harassment” after being arrested for abusing a family member must be allowed to get a gun permit. Police had denied the plaintiff a gun permit after checking the original police reports, following an [...]
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If you haven’t done this already, you really should sit down and read through this investigative story by Katherine Eban published by Fortune Magazine (“The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal“). Eban tracks the background of this issue through dozens of insider interviews and pieces together the dysfunctional inner workings of a small ATF [...]
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Gary Rodrigues, former state director of the United Public Workers, is scheduled to be released from a federal correctional facility in Sacramento on August 27, 2012, after serving most of a five-year sentence, according to the online “inmate locator” maintained by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. However, his attorney told the Star-Advertiser in March that [...]
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Here’s an interesting twist on the argument over whether or not to count nonresident military personnel and their dependents for purposes of political redistricting. It turns out many of the very same arguments are being made in other parts of the country about whether or not prisoners should be counted as residents of the districts [...]
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Did you catch the brief item in the Star-Advertiser this week announcing that the winners of Pa’i Awards presented by the Hawaii Publishers Association were announced at a luncheon on Wednesday. Although the article appears behind the “premium content” pay wall, it had only minimal substance. These awards used to be big deals, as newspapers [...]
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