Here’s a brief look at ethics issues coming up elsewhere, which often provide needed perspective on issues here at home. • In California’s Santa Clara County, the chairman of a county water district is accused of mixing personal and public business by pushing projects that would increase the value of his family’s land holdings (MercuryNews.com). [...]
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With all the heat generated in recent days by comments about the Star-Advertiser (a bit out of hand, perhaps, on the comments?), it’s hard to believe summer is just beginning. Seriously, folks, let’s try to get comments back to the substantive, with less of the venting. And I’ll start the day with this light look [...]
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Mr. Leo is no longer with us, but I still can’t let Fathers Day go by without remembering it as the day we rescued that crazy kitten. I probably tell the story here at least once a year. And it became the heart of the little essay I wrote when Leo died. Happy Fathers Day, [...]
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Hawaii’s “Best Journalist”, according to the Star-Advertiser’s Hawaii’s Best poll…blogger Catherine Toth. Second Place: KHON weather guy Justin Cruz. Oh, my. Then there are the changes being announced by the Star-Advertiser. We’ve already heard that the comics have been expanded. Today its the bridge column, even more comics, “a new comics lineup, printed larger.” Changes [...]
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An editorial yesterday in the Star-Advertiser calls the State Ethics Commission’s recent firing of its executive director “mystifying”, blasts the commission for not being clear and forthcoming about its reasons for the action, and urges the commission to quickly disclose the minutes of its discussions in executive session, implying that a failure to do so [...]
I was browsing Justice Department records this morning and noticed a fraud case which allegedly cost First Hawaiian Bank more than $2.5 million. According to an Justice Department press release, Stephen M. Kraut, the general manager of a Tracy, California auto dealership, was indicted on multiple counts of fraud that allegedly took place between 2005-2007. [...]
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We had a visit yesterday from one of those beautiful peahens and three healthy looking chicks! It seems that Kaaawa’s population of peafowl is growing! These probably aren’t the only chicks to appear this season. Soon it will be time for a census. Anyway, I took a few photos. Just click on this photo for [...]
This week I made a transition to a new computer. It’s a new 15″ MacBook Pro, the latest update, purchased through the online Apple Store. It’s factory reconditioned, and was the first of the recent models that I’ve seen come through for sale. These reconditioned items are delivered “like new” and come with full factory [...]
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