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Hmmmm. I wonder how much it cost to send Gov. Lingle and her entourage through Indonesia and Asia? A few of the bills have surfaced and at least hint at the amounts involved. According to the State Procurement Office web site, the trip included:
•”Meeting /banquet rooms, food and beverage service for seminar in Tokyo”, [...]

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Yesterday’s entry concerning the poor state of building maintenance at the University of Hawaii’s Manoa Campus again forces the question–how can the state possibly afford to build, staff, operate and maintain an entire new West Oahu campus when we can’t seem to afford to keep the ones we have in good working order?
In a recent [...]

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It’s true. I overslept, and it’s already time to set up the coffee, load up the dog biscuits and head out for the morning walk to the other end of Kaaawa. I’ll be back shortly after 7 a.m. and will get to work on today’s entry. Sorry to all you other early risers.
 

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Ms. Harriet (a.k.a. Harry) is one of the stars of today’s bunch of Kaaawa cats. With longer days, the late afternoon light makes for great photo sessions and the cats have been relatively cooperative. So just click on Ms. Harry’s photo for more.

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Retired Star-Bulletin editor Chuck Frankel offered up a most interesting bit of personal and professional history on the issue of journalists’ political involvement.
I’m old enough to remember when Jack Burns and Tom Gill made separate campaign speeches in the city room of the Star-Bulletin. When Tom finished talking, I was pleased to march [...]

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Yes, this entry is late. It’s almost 9 a.m. and I’m finally getting into gear. More on that below.
A memorial to HPD Officer Steve Favela was unveiled on Thursday in the offices of the Coast Guard unit he served as a reserve officer. A plaque with photos of Favela is now mounted in a prominent [...]

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Outsourcing journalism: I was checking news to see why the stock of an electric meter manufacturer had dropped over 10 points yesterday, and quickly found a Reuters story distributed on Yahoo’s Finance pages. It was a straightforward story about this American company hurt by an equivocal statement by a major customer. The surprising thing [...]

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 A reader in Punaluu recommends the Algalita Marine Research Foundation’s web site for its information on the plastics in the ocean environment.
This next site has nothing to do with plastics, but is a great source of info and ideas. Real Time Investigations is a project of the Sunlight Foundation which tracks two journalists digging through [...]

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