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I’ll probably ruffle a few feathers with my column in the new issue of Honolulu Weekly, which criticizes the belief that the Superferry is getting special legislative treatment because its campaign contributions have swayed key officials. My own view is that the only surprising thing about the Superferry’s campaign contributions is that there weren’t many [...]

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Thanks to Peter Boylan for this morning’s detailed account of yesterday afternoon’s sentencing in the email extortion case that briefly made “Bob Awana” a very familiar name. In the e-mails Patkar accessed, Awana attempted to get Patkar’s girlfriend, a woman named Julie Mae, to join Awana, his girlfriend Jet Ebale, and his “friends” for a [...]

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I’m not sure what was going on earlier this morning. Several people emailed ot say that this page was stalling without loading properly. A bit of help from HostRocket.com and things appear to be back working properly. Please let me know if problems reappear (ian@ilind.net). -Ian

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I was bogged down last night in a broadcast of the original version of “The Blob“, a 1958 movie starring an impossibly young Steve McQueen, cleaned up and probably re-colorized in the process. At this point, McQueen had still not developed his macho persona. I hadn’t thought of The Blob as commenting on global warming, [...]

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It sounds like high drama at the Hawaii State Bar Association during its consideration of the nomination of Randal Lee to the Intermediate Court of Appeals. A bit more is now known about the Bar’s deliberations following last week’s Senate hearing. It turns out that the vote of the committee, made up of the group’s [...]

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Here we go again. A “breaking news” item in the Advertiser this morning reports “a large brawl” near the Pipeline Cafe in Kakaako. There was fighting and a shooting in the same location last month. What’s going on over there? The House rejected amendments to the original version of the Superferry bill yesterday, but at [...]

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First an explanation–a computer glitch just ate most of today’s entry the first time around. So I’m proceeding with a rerun, hopefully as good as the earlier effort. Yesterday’s entry drew this comment on the nomination of Randal Lee to the Intermediate Court of Appeals from a good friend whose judgement I have relied on [...]

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