I don’t take kindly to the Hawaiian Electric advertisement that’s been playing the past week or so, formatted as a news interview with HECO executive Robbie Alm. Alm is being interviewed by former news anchor Jade Moon, now a Hawaiian Electric spokesperson, and the ad has been running during evening news broadcasts. It probably also [...]
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From extreme weather to wage slavery to global warming, here’s some suggested reading for this wet Marathon Sunday. • “Finance pros overwhelmingly believe that clear action must be taken on deficit reduction to accelerate economic growth in 2012, and more than half think that tax increases should not be taken off the table to achieve [...]
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Full circle. That’s where the discussion of rail has come since Monday’s entry (“What happened to the light rail alternative (redux)?“), which in turn linked back to a March 2010 entry with the same focus. The point of both posts was to question why light rail wasn’t considered for use in Honolulu, although it has [...]
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Kevin Dayton had a story in yesterday’s Star-Advertiser looking ahead to the first open-court skirmish in the lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the city’s environmental review of the rail project (“Court fight may decide if rail stays on track“). The overall message seemed to be that the lawsuit is just a delaying tactic by rail [...]
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The State Procurement Office this week turned down a request by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to extend a public relations contract in order to tackle negative public opinion towards the Big Wind project on Molokai and Lanai. In comments filed on Thursday, the Chief Procurement Officer said “it would be inappropriate [...]
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The public is now being invited to comment on a plan to base up to an additional 24 MV-22 Osprey aircraft and 27 H-1 helicopters at Marine Base Hawaii in Kaneohe. The proposed move would involve additional aircraft operations in and around Kaneohe, as well as in training areas across the state. Public hearings are [...]
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Two pending requests from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to exempt contracts from requirements of the state procurement law caught my eye this morning. Both appear to reflect the good and bad of Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s administration. On the one hand, the administration is pressing for movement towards goals of expanded use [...]
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In an April 2010 entry, I filled in the local history of the former federal mine official named to lead an investigation into the West Virginia mine disaster at the Upper Big Branch coal mine that killed 29 miners. J. Davitt McAteer had been a young attorney associated with Ralph Nader when he was dispatched [...]
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