The Office of Elections has invited legislators to a demonstration of the new Election Night Reporting system (ENR) which is planned to be up and running by this fall’s elections. This ENR system will enable any person in any location with internet access to obtain up to date election results down to the county and [...]
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Laurie Carlson, publisher of Honolulu Weekly and Hawaii Island Journal (at least until today’s announced closing of HIJ), emailed these corrections to what I wrote earlier in the week about the Journal’s demise. 1. Peter Serafin was on vacation on the mainland when I decided to close the Journal. I’m unsure as to why it [...]
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Things are beginning to shape up for the Democratic National Convention, which begins August 24 in Denver. Hawaii delegates were elected during the state convention last month. Click here for the full slate of Hawaii delegates who will be going to Denver. A message from Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper distributed by the Denver Convention Host [...]
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The rain finally hit Kaaawa over night. It’s been raining on and off since somewhere just after midnight. Power went out briefly just before 2 a.m., resetting most of our clocks. The clocks confused us, the rain has confused the cats, who have been enjoying unusually dry weather for a while now. Pacific Business News [...]
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Apparently its grim up and down the news food chain. The Honolulu Advertiser reports today that this week’s issue of Hawaii Island Journal will be its last. The Journal was bought by Laurie Carlson’s Pacific Catalyst Publishing, which also publishes Honolulu Weekly, not too long ago, back in about 2005. I’ve been impressed by its [...]
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It finally did rain overnight, a slow, steady rain that over the course of several hours gave the yard a pretty good soaking. Derrick DePledge has a good follow-up this morning on the state’s claim of “attorney-client privilege” and “executive privilege” to justify the continued withholding of certain internal records concerning the decision to exempt [...]
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Employees of the Honolulu Advertiser are going to hold a rally today to mark the one-year anniversary of the expiration of their contract. According to a press release from the Hawaii Newspaper Guild Employees have been working under a contract extension (and pay freeze) for one year. Employees from six unions will wave signs urging [...]
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The Seattle Times reports today on the woes of Imperium Renewables, the biodiesel producer with big expansion plans that has a contract to provide bio fuel to Hawaiian Electric. Imperium, it appears, is caught in the changing economics of biodiesel and the picture isn’t pretty. It now costs about $4.66 to buy enough soybean oil [...]
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