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PBS Hawaii’s locally produced Leahey & Leahey on Wednesday nights, which features an intergenerational airing of issues by the sportscasters Leahey, is proving to be sports with an often critical bite and more news than one would perhaps expect. Past the overdone faux Leahey household shtick, the father-son team are managing to hit on key […]

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From my column in last week’s Honolulu Weekly:
…under the terms of Senate Bill 2059, already approved by the Senate Committee on Judiciary and Labor, regulators would be barred from disclosing information about a licensed professional’s complaint history, even if they’ve drawn a string of complaints for shoddy workmanship, unfinished jobs, over billing, bait and switch, […]

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Now that more candidates are filing their nomination papers to run in this year’s elections, I wondered when candidate’s personal financial disclosure are due. These are the disclosures of their personal interests that can sometimes reveal financial and business ties that could influence their future votes.
I was surprised to find that disclosure don’t have to […]

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Says one reporter on hearing of the global attention to last week’s byline strike:
“Oh gawd, we’re in trouble if the Tiser bloggers are considered militants.”
If you don’t routinely check the comments left here, there was quite an active back-and-forth yesterday regarding the public financing of elections.
One upshot is that Voter Owned Hawaii, the key backer […]

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I can officially say that it is cold in Kaaawa this morning. The thermometer says 60 degrees. In our house, with open windows and light wind wandering through, that’s cold, and I had a bit of trouble rousting myself at the normal early hour. Hence today’s late post.
Last week’s byline strike at the Advertiser has […]

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A number of public interest groups are again calling for passage of HB 661, which would establish a system of publicly funded elections. Good idea, bad bill. I have trouble believing that everyone who is willing to call for the bill’s passage have really read or understood just what a bureaucratic nightmare this bill would […]

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Students, faculty, and staff would be barred from bringing their pets onto campus or “feeding animals near outside dining facilities or other areas on campus where feeding may result in a potential health hazard, a public nuisance or property damage,” under a revised campus policy being proposed by Kathleen Cutshaw, Vice-Chancellor for Administration, Finance and […]

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You may have noticed the new look.
After struggling for months to find a solution to a problem displaying daily entries properly for those of you using certain PC versions of Internet Explorer, I decided to abandon the previous Wordpress “theme” and select another that avoids the problem. For those affected viewers, the old version […]

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