We put diesel in our tank yesterday. The price was about 20 cents a gallon higher than the last fillup, which was about the same amount higher than the time before that. I think yesterday was $4.469 per gallon. Ouch. When we bought this car, diesel was selling for less than gasoline. No more. At […]
Entries from May 2008
Friday…Diesel up another 20 cents a gallon; Daryl huffed, they puffed, the blog is gone, and more
May 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Thursday…New dogs, Convention thought, a Lehman footnote, odds & ends
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments
We’ve got a couple of new additions to our collection of Kaaawa Morning Dogs. These guys (and their people) recently moved into a new house in Kaaawa. We’ve seen them running on the beach a few times recently, and yesterday managed to arrange an introduction. That’s Fisher on the left, and Shiloh on […]
Tags: Dogs · General · Politics
I’ll be blogging from the Democratic National Convention in Denver!
May 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
I just received an e-mail from the Democratic National Convention Committee announcing that iLind.net has been selected to be part of the State Blogger Corp in Denver!
We know that you’ll be the eyes and ears of a large audience back home. As we’ve said, members of the State Blogger Corps will be seated alongside […]
Tags: General
Wednesday…Request submitted for emergency electronic voting system contract
May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Contract news…The State Elections Office is seeking approval for an emergency $9 million 1-year contract with Hart InterCivic Inc. for an electronic voting system to conduct this year’s elections. The request for an exemption from the regular procurement process comes after an appeal of the contract award by a competing vendor, Election Systems & Software […]
Tuesday…Rumored turnover at Honolulu Weekly, embedded links & privacy, Huffing & puffing, and a few morning dogs
May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Another six months, another new editor. I’ve heard a second-hand report that’s the story, again, for Honolulu Weekly. I’ve got an e-mail out to a former Hawaii resident rumored to be coming back to take the job. It was just six months ago that I wrote almost the same thing about the hiring of Mindy […]
Monday…Check the data on hiring by local broadcasters, bad news for newspapers
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
Yesterday I happened to notice the fine print at the bottom of the KHON web site with a link to the “EEO Public Report”. It seems that the FCC has required each broadcaster to post their latest Equal Employment Opportunity report on their web site.
FCC rules require broadcasters to widely distribute job notices and […]
Tags: Dogs · General · Media · Photographs
Sunday…KHON story hit for promoting pseudo-scientific debate on global warming
May 11th, 2008 · 3 Comments
A press release announcing the University of Hawaii has signed on to The Climate Registry prompted several stories this past week, with the Star-Bulletin and all the local television news broadcasts covering the issue.
Only KHON’s Andrew Pereira also spotlighted a climate change skeptic.
While carbon footprint measurements have become a popular way for governments, companies and […]
Saturday…Neil in the news, DOD documents, weekend reading, and a Kaaawa rainbow
May 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Poor Neil. Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercromie can’t be enjoying this week’s mentions in the news, from our local papers to the Washington Post and out into popular blogs like TPM Muckraker.
That wasn’t Neil’s only mention in the Washington Post this week, though. He also had an interesting write-up with his own advice to the Obama […]
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