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Entries from January 27th, 2010

Celebrating Ms. Maka: April 30, 2002 – January 26, 2010

January 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · General

Mr. Duke and Ms. Maka were born in 2002 on a sofa bed in the little Waikiki apartment that I use as an office. I created all sorts of nests around the edges of the room. Their mother ignored those and sat in the middle of the sofa. By the time I arrived, she had [...]

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What do you think: “Should this blog accept political advertising?”

January 27th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Blogs, General, Politics

I’m interested in reader reaction to this question. At present, I don’t really have an advertising “policy” except that I’ve tucked a few national ads in the sidebars, with only minimal control from my end on the content. I can, and have, excluded specific advertisers because their views/values are just too contrary to my own, [...]

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Bill to remove restrictions on corporate contributions approved by House Judiciary Committee

January 27th, 2010 · 6 Comments · General, Politics

It didn’t take House Judiciary Chairman Jon Riki Karamatsu very long to prompt Common Cause Hawaii to raise an alarm. Yesterday Karamatsu’s committee quickly passed HB 2249, which he introduced, that would remove certain restrictions on corporate campaign contributions. It is a single-referral bill, meaning that this was its only review by a committee in [...]

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