My story in the current Honolulu Weekly recounts problems between buyers and Crescent Heights, the developer at the luxury Koolani condominium in Kakaako. I understand that it ran under the headline, “The war at home”. This story resulted from my curiosity about the real situation in these new high-rise communities, and it turns out there’s [...]
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After yesterday’s post, I realized that a bit more background is in order to convey the flavor of the latest faceoff between Akaku and the group calling itself Maui Media Lab, and why it sets off some internal alarms. I wrote a story back in 2003 that included this section describing an interaction between then-Akaku [...]
The folks at Akaku: Maui Community Television, seem to be facing one difficult situation after another. First there was the attack by state regulators angered by the nonprofits attempted display of independence from state control, followed by the political assault by a major developer angered at broadcast criticism who pressed legislators to attack and attempt [...]
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There was some wonderful live and nearly live blogging yesterday as the court hearing considering the ferry injunction proceeded in a Maui courtroom. Planet Kauai had live updates as the court session progressed, with summaries of arguments and the judge’s comments. Larry Geller (Disappeared News) provided some between-session sleuthing, and Joan Conrow (KauaiEclectic) managed both [...]
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I’ll be fiddling with different aspects of the site for the next 24 hours in an attempt to locate what’s causing problems for some people viewing ilind.net. This means that you probably won’t see the familiar layout until Friday morning, since changes have rather unpredictable (for me) impacts. Hopefully I’ll get all back together by [...]
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I would appreciate your reports of technical difficulties loading or reading this site. Apart from the typical short periods when the site is busy and loads very slowly, I’ve only had a couple of recent reported problems and I’m trying to troubleshoot those. So please let me know if you notice problems (email ian(at)ilind.net). Thanks [...]
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I brought along my cell phone yesterday morning and we made calls to family on the mainland while the sun was coming up. There’s nothing like a little local color to spice up those family calls. Meda was talking to her sister in Ellicott City, Maryland, when I took this photo. Noted: A new email [...]
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Veterans Day, and government offices are closed. No mail. Buses running slow. Hopefully it will remain a slow day. An alert reader noted a change in the Star-Bulletin’s policy regarding corrections. Now when corrections are reported, it is also noted that the web edition has been corrected. Previously, the original story was retained but accompanied [...]
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