I hope Duke Bainum liked dogs, because that would mean that he’s happily at rest in a spot near the fence that separates Diamond Head Memorial Park from the Bark Park next door at the top end of 18th Avenue. I like the idea of all those happy growls and barks as dogs race around [...]
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Hawaiian flags few at half-staff yesterday in honor of Duke Bainum, the doctor from Arkansas who stopped by Hawaii and stayed, was elected to the State House, the Honolulu City Council, and came within 1,300 votes of being mayor of Honolulu in 2004. Hundreds of people gathered at a memorial service in downtown Honolulu. The [...]
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City Councilmember Duke Bainum warned last week that the city’s rush to begin construction of the proposed rail transit system coupled with its insistence on a train running on an elevated concrete guideway for its entire distance “will create a Superferry-Like legal limbo for the rail project”. Bainum pointed to choices made by the city [...]
Here’s my favorite quote of the week, attributed to Dorothy Parker, found at the tail end of a National Public Radio story on the 50th anniversary of the publication of “The Elements of Style”. “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to [...]
The tornadoes that hit on Thursday, including one that touched down just across the Oklahoma border in Mena, Arkansas, came on the 62nd anniversary of the monster tornado that my wife, Meda, survived as an infant. That 1947 storm still ranks as the deadliest in Oklahoma history. Hawaii reporters might want to put a local [...]
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