From a Star-Bulletin correction in Friday’s edition: » A photo of Big Isle attorney Ted H.S. Hong was mistakenly identified as Bob Awana, Gov. Linda Lingle’s former chief of staff, in a Page A4 story in yesterday’s early edition. Hong, a former state chief labor negotiator, is unrelated to the case in which Awana was [...]
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Once again, the Advertiser has a breaking news item of police responding to a reported “brawl” in Haleiwa at 1:30 a.m. I’m mentioning it here for future reference if this violent trend continues. “What happens when there is not enough water to go around?” That’s the question addressed in this Alternet story, which adds a [...]
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Here’s another great set of links forwarded by Aaron Stene in Kona. That summit appears to be full of cameras!
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My old friend Mike Sullivan in Hilo sent over this photo of this morning’s snow on Mauna Kea. Mae took this photo of Mauna Kea this morning. The was just beginning to hit the mountain when she took the photo. This would be the second snow Mauna Kea this fall. Just click for a larger [...]
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As to yesterday’s morning walk–we beat the weather after all. It required umbrellas much of the way, but we managed, much to the delight of our regular morning dogs. Kudos to Leslie Wilcox for the second part of her interview with former Honolulu news anchor Bob Sevey, broadcast Tuesday night. If you missed it, here’s [...]
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Who’s that guy in the superman costume? If you guessed Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie, you’re probably among the few readers who recall this little slice of Hawaii political history, which I found on a shelf in my office and scanned yesterday afternoon. It was the 1970 when UH grad student Neil Abercrombie filed to run [...]
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Here’s your program advisory for tonight–tune into the second half of Leslie Wilcox’s interview with Bob Sevey on her “Long Story Short” tonight at 7:30 p.m. on PBS Hawaii. The first installment, which aired last week, was a news junkie’s feast. And if you missed the first part, I note that you can read the [...]
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Rain was already falling over towards Kaneohe when we got down to the beach yesterday morning, and heavy clouds blocked most of the light of the rising sun. The rain looked like it was slowly drifting in our direction, but we managed to get all the way to the far end of the beach and [...]
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