This letter from environmental watchdog Carroll Cox is circulating this morning. For more information, check this recent item from ReligiousRightWatch.com. To: Lt. Governor Duke Aiona Mayor Mufi Hannemann City Councilman Gary Okino Senator Norman Sakamoto From: Carroll Cox Date: April 28, 2010 The purpose of this letter is to respectfully request that you denounce and [...]
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Gone are the vivid reds and oranges of those winter dawns in Kaaawa. Now it’s blue skies, with the sun well above the horizon by the time we get down to the beach, usually by 6:45 a.m. It like a whole new spin on starting the day. Here’s an example taken this week.
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The news this morning wasn’t good. With the closing of the sale of the Honolulu Advertiser just days away, we finally got a clearer understanding of what’s going to happen. And it was in a story by Advertiser’s Rick Daysog. Francis said yesterday that Star-Bulletin editorial staffers, who have a union contract, will be retained [...]
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Today’s previous entry on the Clean Water and Natural Lands Commission reminds me why I love reporting. It started slowly. I was doing a routine sweep through public online data looking for potential items to blog about. A relatively obscure grant from an agency that doesn’t get much press caught my eye because it involved [...]
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Millions of dollars set aside in a fund intended to be used only for important land conservation projects could instead be diverted to provide open space or parks along Honolulu’s proposed rail transit route if Mayor Mufi Hanneman’s administration has its way. But the chair of the commission established by the City Council to administer [...]
Several follow-up items. An entry in Westworld, a Denver blog, takes an outside look at Honolulu Civil Beat. Paid subscribers will be asked to support the operation — a concept that, on its face, sounds quite similar to the approach floated by INDenver Times, an ambitious project assembled in the wake of the Rocky closure [...]
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This exchange on politics and employment got buried in comments on a recent video of Ruby & Daisy, two of our Kaaawa dogs. Bill // Apr 17, 2010 at 8:23 am I noticed they passed the bill (HB 1868, which was vetoed) that would prohibit a civil servant (ie. administrative staff) from serving in an [...]
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Our Kaaawa morning dogs don’t have a regular day comparable to Feline Friday, so I’ve just got to sqeeze them in here and there as time permits. Today’s the time! The star? Ms. Scruffy! How could you not fall for this face? And today’s dogs also include two new dogs, Stella (newly adopted) and Mr. [...]
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