It’s time to vote! Michael Allen Magliulo, who grew up in Hilo, has made it through several rounds of CMT.com’s Music City Madness and needs your votes to continue on. Check the description of the competition that follows, or go here for more of Michael’s personal and musical history. CMT’s third annual singer/songwriter competition, Music [...]
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A MySpace group on “Royal Patents” contains what appears to be a pretty good statement of the logic, such as it is, that may lie behind the “Royal Hawaiian Treasury Bond” scam currently being investigated by the FBI. It’s attributed to a young Molokai man I myself have called these people at “Aha o Na [...]
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Oops. I didn’t mean for this to be posted when I hit that button. Oh, well, Too late now, I suppose… Peter Boylan’s two stories on a sovereignty scam targeting Native Hawaiian homeowners are highly recommended reading. The first story appeared yesterday, with a follow-up today adding a few details. The case harkens back to [...]
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We made it back home last night just after 7 p.m., about 19 hours after getting out of bed in St. Louis. All the cats were present and accounted for, always a relief. I thought I would share a couple of election stories people have sent me. The first came from an online friend who [...]
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I have to give highest marks for “niceness” to the woman who assisted us at the St. Louis Art Museum’s ticket counter when we showed up yesterday with our reciprocal membership cards from the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu. Sometimes we’ve found museum staff a bit reluctant to honor the reciprocal membershhips, which usually entitle us [...]
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Still in St. Louis, and it is suddenly cold outside today. Temperature outside is hovering around 40 degrees, but with a strong wind, they say it feels like 33. Tonight is supposed to get down below 30 degrees. We’re trying to assess just how cold that feels. We’re clearly weather wimps. Can we get to [...]
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In December 1942, University of Hawaii Professor Carey D. Miller sent a 6-page letter to friends with a month-by-month account of what it was like in Honolulu after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entry into WWII. It’s quite an interesting and informative look at the war from a very personal level. I [...]
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Back in early August, I noted the Attorney General’s request for a procurement exemption to cover a $100,000 contract with an attorney to step in at the last minute as lead counsel in a trial of a involving allegations that the Department of Education failed to provide reasonable access to educational services for special needs [...]
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