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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Kauai blogger Andy Parx (Got Windmills?) made an interesting comment in the discussion of the email from City Councilmember Tom Berg. I had clarified that the email came from a private email account and not his official council email. Andy responded: I don’t think it matters if it was sent from a private email account- [...]
A commenter yesterday asked about Mayor Peter Carlisle’s top contributors. The mayor actually reported a relatively quiet 6-months, with total contributions received of just $53,222.41. For a bit of perspective, that is 30 percent less than the $76,122.80 raised by City Council Chairman Ernie Martin, who happens to represent the district that includes Kaaawa. Mayor [...]
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In this morning’s email stack was an unsolicited message from City Councilmember Tom Berg, actually a copy of a message addressed to Honolulu Weekly. Subject: BERG AT APEC EVENT. This email consisted of a rambling series of accusations against the Honolulu Police Department and federal agents based on what Berg says is the “truth” of [...]
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The new money figures are in. Governor Abercrombie did quite well for himself, taking in $1.1 million during the latter half of 2011. I originally wrote that as “raking in” rather than “taking in”, but decided it slighted changed the meaning of the sentence in a manner I’m not sure I meant. Language is a [...]
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Whenever I run across a blank financial disclosure form filed by a public official, my alarm bells go off. That’s what happened yesterday when I happened to look at the disclosures filed with the State Ethics Commission by UH West Oahu Chancellor Gene Awakuni. Awakuni filed a “Disclosure of Financial Interests (Long Form)” report on [...]
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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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