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Thanks to Joe for his comment on Tuesday’s entry regarding the Kahala coconut trees which will soon be cut down. He shared a simple quote:

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.
I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. - The Lorax, Dr. Seuss

Thanks, Joe.

The Advertiser’s buyout offer, announced earlier this summer, will reportedly result in the retirement of a number of well-known writers. Rumor has it that court reporter Ken Kobayashi, Kauai Bureau chief Jan TenBruggencate, Public Affairs Editor Jerry Burris, and education writer Bev Creamer are among those taking advantage of the offer, said to include “a week’s pay for every year of service; medical coverage for three years or until age 65; and two years of service credits toward the pension plan.”

The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting media column by Tim Rutten several days ago addressing a question being raised here by the subpoena of Malia Zimmerman, that is, who should be covered by a shield law?

Editor & Publisher reported this week on the differing fates of the American Journalism Review and the Columbia Journalism Review, the former facing financial crisis and the latter doing better than ever.

Documents from the suit filed by Hawaii pet owners over the contaminated pet foods produced by Menu Foods are available for free from Justicia.com. It’s an easy way to see how this issue is developing, and avoids the 8 cents per page fee for documents obtained directly through the PACER system.

I noted another potentially interesting case brought by Pacific Lightnet against Time Warner Telecom. The two companies each own half of the undersea fiber cables in the Hawaiian Islands Fiber Network. Pacific Lightnet says its fibers were damaged by inexperienced or unqualified technicians employed by Time Warner Telecom. There’s more, for those interested in the behind the scenes battles in the local telecommunications sector. You can read the federal complaint here.

We’re preparing ourselves, as hard as it may be, for Ms. Kitten’s departure. She’s scheduled to be picked up tomorrow morning (Friday) by her new family. As happy as we are that she’s going to a good home, we’ve gotten pretty attached over the past month, despite the disruptions and upheavals her presence caused.

And in the latest naming cycle, Ms. Kitten is now “Olivia”.

So here’s a shot of Olivia and Mr. Romeo, who were co-hunting one of the favorite dangling cat toys. I’ll be getting some final photos of Ms. Olivia later this morning.