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Safeway follow-up

April 27th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Business, Consumer issues, Economics

This in from an old friend regarding Safeway Stores price guarantee: Hi Ian, Thank you for telling us of the semi-secret policies of Safeway. Today my wife got a good sized bucket of ice cream FREE, after being overcharged and getting the store clerk to read the policy. Fantastic!! Thank you again, Take care Thanks [...]

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Concessions to employers could kill minimum wage increase

April 25th, 2013 · 5 Comments · Consumer issues, Economics, Legislature, Politics

Supporters of a bill that would increase the minimum wage for 74,000 of Hawaii’s lowest paid workers say the bill could die unless Senate President Donna Kim’s drops her insistence on major new concessions to employers. House and Senate conferees are scheduled to reconvene this morning for last minute negotiations on SB331. House and Senate [...]

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90 percent of tax returns filed electronically

April 15th, 2013 · 4 Comments · Business, Economics, Media

A simple factoid jumped out at me from a story about the U.S. Postal Service handling of tax returns that appeared in the Star-Advertiser this morning. The S-A version is hidden behind its paywall. But you can read the original, which ended up in the newspaper in a slightly edited version, in the USPS press [...]

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Disney P.R. bowls over local media, officials

March 27th, 2013 · 31 Comments · Economics, Media, Politics

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to boosterism in place of news, but yesterday’s spectacle at Washington Place with the governor, mayor, and a gaggle of reporters mouthing lines from Disney press packet for the return of The Lion King was over really the top. I recommend checking out the “news” coverage at Hawaii News [...]

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Monday miscellany

March 4th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Business, Economics, Media, Politics

Just a few miscellaneous items to start the week. • Last week, for the first time, we left a bag containing empty wine bottles out for our regular city garbage pick-up. I couldn’t help feeling both guilty about not recycling and angry at the city for removing most of our recycling options. Since the community [...]

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Quaker group supports chopping the defense budget

February 20th, 2013 · 3 Comments · Economics, Politics

The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), a nonpartisan Quaker-based organization lobbies in Washington for policies consistent with historic Quaker testimonies on peace, equality, simplicity, and truth with peace and social justice, prepared this video to illustrate the size of our defense budget. FCNL is making a case to let the defense cuts in the [...]

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Looking at whiteness, masculinity, and gun violence

January 3rd, 2013 · 29 Comments · Blogs, Economics, History, Politics

If you don’t read anything else today, please do check out this post on my cousin’s blog, ClutterMuseum.com (“Into the heart of whiteness and gun violence“). Leslie Madsen-Brooks is a fine writer and an astute cultural observer (and her other half is no slouch at the keyboard, either). Here’s part of what Leslie says about [...]

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Is military spending vulnerable in post-Inouye Hawaii?

December 29th, 2012 · 23 Comments · Economics, environment, Media, Politics

Two more bits of national attention for Hawaii. First, the New York Times: “Loss of Inouye Means Loss of Clout for Hawaii.” Reporter Jeremy Peters goes through the standard tracing of earmarks that flowed to the islands during Inouye’s long tenure, but then he mentions the unmentionable issue of Hawaii’s political vs. strategic importance. Mr. [...]

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