I caught a report last week noting that construction fences would be coming down and the public finally allowed to enjoy the reopening of the Duke Kahanamoku beach and lagoon fronting the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Hilton’s been taking lots of credit for carrying through on the project, which took more than two years to complete. [...]
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Honolulu Weekly is finally getting a new editor. Mindy Pennebacker, an accomplished environmental journalist and editor, confirmed that she will take over major editorial responsibilities after the first of the year, although she won’t be relocating to Honolulu until sometime later. Various friends of the Weekly will assist with the editing until Mindy makes it [...]
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Yesterday started out dark, cloudy, and threatening. But then it turned into this… It sure beats the ice and snow covering much of the mainland today! Instead of ice and show, we have plastic. Most mornings, we take along a couple of bags to pick up trash off the beach. Some is stuff left by [...]
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Save Kauai blog has a description of the Superferry’s return to Maui by a critic (“Riding the Spooker-ferry”), which contains some interesting observations. First, she says she and two travel partners were “randomly selected” for full security searches, and believes this is because they were either known to be opponents or else not known to [...]
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Did you happen to catch KITV’s Robert Kekaula last night on the Mitchell Report regarding banned substances in baseball? It was an embarassing bit of commentary and denial. He led off by saying it was like a smear of the players, “all hearsay” and “no hard evidence”, and it never got much better. I suppose [...]
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Dave Pellegrin tweaked me yesterday for lack of disclosure in my story in the current Honolulu Weekly regarding a push by tobacco opponents to ban smoking in apartments and condominium units. Dave wrote: Good piece. But if you’re still on the board of a condo association — let alone its president — you should have [...]
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A friend on the mainland who has been tracking news of the Superferry via earlier links on this site sent this brief bit of gossip yesterday: had breakfast this morning with a long time friend, president of a local good sized bank–after small talk he said he had been keeping up on the superferry story [...]
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As our friends who visited for the weekend were leaving this morning for town and eventually the airport, I was slaving on catching cats and moving them down the street along with their supporting exhibits (cat food, litter boxes, odor remover, towels to put down for them to sleep on, etc). Our friends, looking at [...]
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