Services for Duke Bainum are being held today, and state flags will be at half-staff in his honor. DUKE MARK EDMUND BAINUM 56, of Honolulu, died June 9, 2009. Born in Takoma Park, Md. A physician and Honolulu city councilman. Survived by wife, Jennifer; sons, Z and Kona; stepson, Johnny Lesseos; stepdaughter, Jennifer “Leona” Lesseos; [...]
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It took less than two weeks for the Intermediate Court of Appeals to issue a concise 13-page opinion upholding a Maui judge’s ruling rejecting the Campaign Spending Commission’s attempt to restrict corporations to a total of $1,000 in contributions to all candidates combined in any election. The Intermediate Court found that the campaign spending law’s [...]
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Sharp eyes of folks at PBN noted an unusually long set of “corrections” published this week by the UH Manoa student newspaper, Ka Leo, and tracked down the story. PBN reports that 26 stories written by former Ka Leo reporter and news editor Kris DeRego included fabricated quotes or other errors, including misspelled names and [...]
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How time flies. I “knew” it was Wednesday because the crew arrived at 5:30 a.m. to pick up our trash. But my brain still let a “Tuesday” headline into the original version of this entry. An early morning short-circuit! There was a lot of traintosterone at Blaisdell Center yesterday at the city’s rain transit symposium, [...]
I’m heading off this morning to attend the city’s rail transit symposium at the Blaisdell. Funny thing about it is that the city has been featuring Dan Doyle, who was a transit official in Vancouver, B.C. during construction of the SkyTrain system, the model for Honolulu’s proposed system. But most of the rest of the [...]
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Meda and I met my mother and sister for a Father’s Day visit with my father, now more than half-way to his 96th birthday. We took along a tray of fruit–strawberries, cantaloupe, watermelon, lychee–and some fresh homemade shortbread that Bonnie made from a recipe of our grandmother’s. Unfortunately, we got a call about noon saying [...]
As suggested here yesterday, I did go ahead and compile a little gallery of photos taken on our early morning walk yesterday morning. Just click on this photo to see the full gallery. And the arrival of summer seems like a good time to share another letter sent to friends by the late-Carey D. Miller, [...]
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First, the dogs. As we reach the end of our daily walk at dawn, we pass the home of friends and their dogs, who apparently keep watch for us to pass by. As we get closer, we can usually hear a commotion behind the gate at the top of their driveway as four dogs race [...]
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