We spent the night with friends in Kaaawa again, and started today with a walk on our former beach out in Kaaawa. We did manage to visit with a number of our former daily dogs, as well as some of their people. We was a pleasure, as always.
There is still something very special about Kaaawa, that’s for sure.
And we did walk past our former house. Renovations are still underway there, it seems. We’re looking forward to seeing what the new owners are doing.
But the upshot is that I won’t have much of a blog post for today, since I’m getting such a late start at the computer. But I did want to share this photo, taken just as the sun rose.
Another gorgeous day.
And if you have access to Civil Beat, do check out my column about the UH Cancer Center and its former director. I’ve been getting a lot of feedback already. See “Ian Lind: Has UH Adequately Addressed Cancer Center’s Sticky Issues? Former director Michele Carbone was often an expert defense witness in asbestos cases and sought UH grants from a frequently sued company. Conflict of interest?”
I’ll have more on this issue over the next couple of days.
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Ian: Your Civil Beat column on Michele Carbone and the Cancer Center (which only yesterday received a multi-million dollar gift from the Governor) is an extraordinary piece of work. It just shows, again, what once was possible at the Advertiser and Star-Bulletin when Jim Dooley and you were doing investigative reporting for them. I can’t help noting that in Dave Reardon’s Star-Advertiser piece today on the UH basketball fiasco the UHM Chancellor is quoted as saying, in reply to criticism, “It’s not as simple as what’s right.” What a classic, all-purpose escape hatch from on-target charges of bumbling ineptitude. It should be the UH Manoa motto, carved over the entrances to both Bachman and Hawaii Hall as a warning to anyone who dares to think of UH as a university, as a place of idealism and higher learning.
Nice picture Ian. Merry Christmas to you and your ohana.
in other news……………………………………….
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Larry Mehau, an influential and controversial supporter of the Hawaii Democratic Party for many years, has died.
The Hawaii island rancher and businessman was 86 years old.
Mehau’s son-in-law, Tony Vericella, said Mehau died Tuesday. He declined to comment further and asked that the family’s privacy be respected.
“We appreciate everyone’s positive thoughts and wishes,” said Vericella.
Mehau formerly served as chairman of the Board of Land and Natural Resources. He was also the owner of a security guard business, Hawaii Protective Association, Ltd.
Mehau was once accused of by a Honolulu City Prosecutor’s aide, Rick Reed, of being the “godfather” of organized crime in Hawaii — a charge he strongly denied. He sued Reed for libel and invasion of privacy. In 1992, a Circuit Court jury ruled in Reed’s favor.
An article investigating the ethics (or lack thereof) of Michele Carbone, with not one single mention of former Manoa chancellor Virginia Hinshaw? She only hired the guy to be the cancer center director in the first place, despite complaints from some quarters that Carbone was unqualified for the job. And after resigning the chancellorship, she became a “senior advisor” to Carbone in a vain attempt at keeping the man’s directorship from sinking amidst the complaints and grievances that he was racking up with a vengeance. If any one person deserves to have the light of scrutiny shined on when it comes to answering for Carbone’s behavior, it has to be Hinshaw.