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Larry Geller (www.disappearednews.com) makes a good point. Although our news media interviewed lots of Superferry passengers when the service started up, there has been little probing into the problems faced by passengers now stranded by the ferry’s inability to operate in rough weather.
Real, individual lives are negatively impacted by cancellations and no doubt some businesses […]

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Last week it was Turtle Bay drawing attention because of strong opposition to development. Last night it was people in Hawaii Kai standing up to keep hotel-cabins from being built under the guise of “vacation cabins”, a category certainly never intended to include hotel use. Then there are neighbor island residents saying that if the […]

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Coming and going…well, mostly going. Yesterday word was spreading that the Department of Education and longtime spokesman Greg Knudsen have parted ways. No clue about the circumstances. Then news came that former newsman Ron Mizutani has resigned from Hawaiian Telcom just after he had to announce the company’s layoffs of dozens of managers.
Later this morning, […]

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I had trouble reading the Advertiser’s story on the upcoming beach evictions in Nanakuli. I agree with the sentiment that the beaches should be available to all, and know that we bristle when temporary encampments appear on the beach in Kaaawa.
But the story makes clear that there are no alternatives available to be offered […]

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I was thinking yesterday about how different Gov. Lingle’s State of the State speech would have been if, instead of announcing the idea of buying the 850 acres at Turtle Bay, she had said something like this.
The financial problems experienced by the Turtle Bay Resort offer the public a unique opportunity–to bring more than 800 […]

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Wow!
But, obviously, I hadn’t gotten around to reading the local newspapers when I added that link.

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It’s a gray morning in Kaaawa.
Senator Clarence Nishihara and Rep. Joe Bertram get special recognition for being the first of the 76 current members of the Legislature to submit their annual financial disclosure to the State Ethics Commission. Both reports were date stamped by the commission on January 7.
Reps Cynthia Thielen and Ryan Yamane followed […]

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[Warning–a reader’s comment says that “Kuilima Development Co.”, Pickard’s company discussed below, is a different beast from “Kuilima Resort Company”, the Kuilima resort owner. As I said below, I stumbled onto Kuilima Development while doing a quick review. Obviously, there are more twists and turns here that need to be understood. How are these companies […]

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