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It’s interesting to see what can happen when you’re only paying partial attention.
For years, we’ve been hearing about the possibility of a new UH community college campus in Kona to be built with private funds by the developer seeking to build on a large adjacent property.
An Associated Press story in today’s Star-Bulletin reports the [...]

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I’ve been wasting time browsing the Library of Congress online digital collections which, despite some rather odd indexing, contain lots of great old photos and documents, including many from Hawaii.
This happens to be a panoramic photo of Honolulu taken in 1913, looking across the harbor and city towards Diamond Head. Click on this small photo [...]

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Thanksgiving in Kaaawa started with a rather spectacular sunrise, and ended (for us at least) mid-evening with a turkey echo served up as sandwiches with a side of fresh carrots and olives, washed down by a couple of glasses of wine. In between was the main feast with my sister and parents, who came out [...]

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In case you missed it, here’s a link to the piece I did for last week’s Honolulu Weekly–
“The war at home“
“…Condo owners at the luxury Ko‘olani complex say their homes are anything but luxurious, and they say the developer is to blame”

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I understand about politics. But I don’t understand why Rep. Mazie Hirono turned her latest Thanksgiving email message to constituents into another paean to veterans. Perhaps its a symptom of the depth of militarization of our society that it seems “natural” to add an overlay of military issues to another national holiday that really [...]

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It’s the annual Turkey Trot at Kaaawa School today, a fun competition in which students can win a turkey. Now that the date has managed to sneak up on me, I realize I’m guilty of failing to deliver a contribution on time, but I’ll be there today with my camera. I guess I’ll hand-deliver a [...]

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Henry Curtis reports that Life of the Land intends to question four witnesses next week in a pending Public Utilities Commision review of Hawaii Electric’s Integrated Resource Plan.

Life of the Land believes that climate change impacts and the insane rush into agrofuels requires asking questions. It requires thinking. It requires forethought.
We have decided to question [...]

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Our trip to Atlanta started with a funny scene shortly after takeoff as United Flight 2 was climbing out of Honolulu. One of the flight attendants started on her spiel, “out of the left side of the aircraft you get a good view”…
We were on the left side so I looked out the window. We [...]

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