This past Wednesday would have been my mother’s 99th birthday. Her birthday is close to Mothers Day, and we would always celebrate the two events in some form or fashion. This year, no mother, no celebration. But I did find myself in the living room of my parents’ old house in Kahala, not to celebrate [...]
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There doesn’t seem to be a consensus among Safeway shoppers regarding reported overcharges. There’s anecdotal evidence of continuing problems, but some people say they haven’t noted pricing errors. For example, one regular reader commented yesterday: My wife and I have been carefully monitoring our purchases at Manoa Safeway. We have found no problems since this [...]
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Last weekend, Toby was just feeling rotten. He didn’t show up in the morning to get for his spoonful of cottage cheese, and he spent way too much time curled up in the same spot on the bed. I thought it might be a bad hairball, so let him lick globs of Laxatone off my [...]
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Total frustration. I’m excited about the opportunity to pull apart data on campaign contributions over the past couple of years. It’s the first time I’ve had a chance to examine all the contributions a person makes to different candidates over the course of an election cycle. I’ve got the data, I know the initial questions [...]
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Every household has at least one. Usually in or near the kitchen. It’s the drawer that all the miscellaneous Stuff goes into. Ours was so full that we couldn’t open in any more. The Stuff seems to have been multiplying on its own. Dark matter could be in there waiting to be discovered. So yesterday [...]
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If Hawaii’s journalist “shield” law is repealed by the legislature, ranked by many as one of the best in the county, a lot of the blame (or credit, if you’re on the other side of this First Amendment issue) will go to Senator Clayton Hee and, perhaps, Governor Neil Abercrombie. The shield law protects journalists [...]
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SB66, which requires members of several key boards and commissions to file public financial disclosure statements, has been scheduled for a public hearing Monday afternoon before the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. It would apply to “state boards or commissions that have official authority that includes approving, issuing, or renewing permits or licenses [...]
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