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As promised, here’s what it looked like around dawn this morning in Kaaawa. No colors, just gray. Farther along, the waves were brown with stream runoff from the overnight rain.  Click for a larger photo.

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It’s winter in Kaaawa, the temperature this morning down in the lower 60s, and yesterday it stayed just below 70 degrees for most of the day. A “flood advisory” was issued by the National Weather Service overnight for the whole windward coast of Oahu, including Kaaawa (”At 254 AM HST…excessive runoff from the heavy rain [...]

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Sometime today the “official” counter on this page will slip past the 1.1 million mark. No fireworks, but I’ll notice nonetheless. That means just over 200,000 visits to the blog since the beginning of the year, and over 6,000 unique visitors in each of the past three months. Thanks to those of you who have [...]

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No comment: The Honolulu Advertiser is using the “B Word” again. Brawl.
A breaking news update overnight reports: “Multiple police cars and city ambulances have been sent to the Lumiaina-Lumiauau area of Waikele in response to reports of a brawl in the area.”
The New York Times travel section today reports on the anti-development backlash that the [...]

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Word from the Star-Bulletin is that longtime court reporter Debra Barayuga is quitting at the end of the year. It’s another real loss, as she’s been carrying a lot of water for the paper.
Remember the Canal House condominium, the building that was having elevator problems that forced residents to use the stairs and later had [...]

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Here’s the newly available link to my Honolulu Weekly column published last week, “Money Talks“.
I ran into this interesting situation yesterday.
The Office of Information Practices issued a Opinion No. 06-03 back in May 2006 advising the University of Hawaii that it would have to disclose the number of student athletes who tested positive in drug [...]

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Due to popular demand–well, a bit of interest–I’m in the process of preparing a new 2008 cat calendar, featuring the 9 friendly felines of the Chesney-Lind household. Of course, I’ve run into a technical problem (my venerable desktop Mac has finally died, and although photos on those drives aren’t lost, they are not readily available). [...]

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On Saturday, the Advertiser reported another brawl on the north shore involving “a large number” of young people, probably young men, just one in a series of similar brief reports that have not been probed. On Sunday, the Advertiser’s front page included a Los Angeles Times story deeply critical of a California community’s failure [...]

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