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Our family traditionally celebrates Christmas and opens presents on Christmas Eve, and this year was no exception. So last night found us all at my parents’ home in Kahala. My sister, Bonnie, and her cat, Mr. Purrkins, are also here this year, and this time I brought along a tripod so that I could put [...]

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KHON reported on the temporary (?) closing of the Crouching Lion last night, but the story had at least one fact wrong. It said the restaurant first opened in 1957. Incorrect, and I know because my father opened the first restaurant at the Crouching Lion in 1952. Here’s a copy of the original business license [...]

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A story in Columbia Journalism Review critiques business reporters and the business press for contributing to the subprime mortgage meltdown by paying little attention to regulators during the period where strong regulatory action could have avoided the current financial damage.
That’s certainly the case here at home. Other than prolific gadfly Jeff Garland and the Akaku [...]

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The end is near!
The end of 2007, that is, and like you, we’re scrambling to finish all those things that should have already been done, while trying to grab enough time to celebrate the holidays with friends and family.
So let’s see what I can find here this a.m.
Here we go again. This time the Honolulu [...]

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Welcome to the winter solstice. It rained hard for a while in Kaaawa over night, and it’s still too dark to see what kind of a dawn we can expect. But celebrate it anyway!
I don’t understand this decision at all. The Advertiser reports today that law enforcement officials are warning women after a series of [...]

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You never know what nuggets of information will be found among the requests for exemptions submitted to the State Procurement Office.
Delays caused by the need to repair the 2,000-gallon buckets used by Hawaii National Guard in fighting wild fires allowed the fire that burned thousands of acres in Waialua in August to start up again [...]

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This WSJ news alert arrived earlier this morning.
What does it say about our political economy when it’s considered news that the guy in charge when they had to take $9.4 BILLION in write-downs in three months “won’t accept a bonus”. Really!
Does that mean he expects to be offered a bonus despite these results?
Amazing.
NEWS ALERT
from The [...]

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We were driving home yesterday afternoon listening to the KHON news broadcast on KSSK am as Joe Moore read a story about a Hawaii-bound flight turning back to Los Angeles as the result of smoke caused by a malfunctioning oven.
There may have been visuals to fill in the blanks, but the story Moore [...]

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