Ms. Kitten had me up way too early this morning. I’m embarrassed to say just how early. I even tried to go back to sleep, but she had done her wakeup job too well. It’s hard to imagine how a kitten of her size can scream so loud and rattle the door to the room so effectively when she decides its time for attention from people or time to explore the rest of the house. Or, need I say, time for food?
Then I uploaded the monthly gallery of June’s Kaaawa photos, but for some unknown reason can’t open the version on my computer, although the version on the server seems to be working fine. This one has me puzzled but computers manage to do that sometimes. Hopefully the photos will open for you as well. Click on this photo to see the full gallery.
The (Unofficial) Hawaii Supreme Court Blog has links to the majority decision and dissent handed down earlier this week upholding a Circuit Court ruling against Kauai’s property tax initiative.
Hunter Bishops blog called attention several days ago to a Hawaii Tribune Herald story concerning Hilo Medical Center. It’s an interesting situation and has drawn a number of comments.
Seattle Times reporter Sanjay Bhatt had a good story yesterday looking at the clash of interests between urban condo owners and club patrons, and how those play out in other cities. I think about this every time I see another brief mention of a fight outside a bar or club at closing, which seem to appear regularly in both daily papers.
Amazon.com may not be willing to deliver its nonperishable grocery items to Hawaii, but it’s starting home delivery of groceries to another island community, according to the Wall Street Journal:
Amazon says it has invited a small group of its customers in Mercer Island, Wash., to participate in a pilot program that allows the customers to go online to order perishable groceries such as fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and milk to be delivered the following day. The company plans to expand the service to other Seattle neighborhoods, too, and could expand beyond that “when we’re ready,” said spokesman Craig Berman.
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There’s a bunch wrong with the Amazon picture. They don’t ship non-perishables to Hawai`i yet they sent me — free shipping no less — a full-size vacuum cleaner that was on special at their website. I’d like to have someone responsible (Congress? AG? DCCA?) take a serious look into shipping practices to Hawai`i, including the use of USPS, by a number of these companies.
As for clashes between urban condo residents & neighboring “establishments,” IIRC, there was an ongoing conflict between Indigo Restaurant and some nearby condo dwellers who complained about Indigo’s lanai seating area generating too much noise at night. Don’t know if this is still the case; I only heard about it through listening regularly to the (unintentionally) hilarious “Call the Mayor” radio show hosted by our former mayor, Mr. Harris.
A lot of consternation has been expressed about the court’s rearrangement of the parties in order to keep the Kauai tax case viable. But I was more struck by the way the court arbitrarily decided that while the state constitution says the power to regulate property taxes rests with the counties, what it actually meant to say was that power rests with county councils.