Another day, another report about street fights, this time in the neighborhood across from Castle High School in Kaneohe. KHON’s Brianne Randle reported yesterday on groups of kids going off campus for fights attracting dozens of onlookers, blocking the narrow streets. Videos of some fights can be found on YouTube. It’s just another sign of [...]
I spent yesterday at Olelo moderating three panels featuring candidates for Lt. Governor, so read Richard Borreca’s latest column about the job with interest (Lieutenant governor’s job has potential — for irrelevancy). He did a good job rounding up former lt. governors John Waihee and Ben Cayetano for perspective on the job. And his first [...]
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Here’s some other reading to check out. “Women and the Economy 2010: 25 Years of Progress But Challenges Ramain” U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, August 2010. “NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños Growing Stronger” August 25, 2010 The key finding here is that El Ninos are growing stronger in the Central Pacific, south of Hawaii, instead [...]
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Former Mayor Mufi Hannemann also has some decades old history making the rounds again this year. Several readers have called it to my attention in recent days. It stems from an incident during a afternoon matinee showing of the blaxploitation film, “Willie Dynamite: Pimp Counsel“, at Honolulu’s old Liberty Theater on July 31, 1974. According [...]
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It looks like both Hannemann and Abercrombie are having to deal with items from the past. In Neil’s case, it’s his somewhat infamous September 1977 “F*** you” letter addressed to then-Board of Education Chairman Noboru Yonamine. In today’s climate, I would guess that a lot of people would agree with Neil’s concisely expressed sentiment about [...]
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We just missed getting down to Swanzy Beach Park before the sun came up this morning. Almost got there, but not quite. But the sun appears a little later every day, and it won’t be long before we’re back in that part of the year when we get the brilliant colors of dawn to accompany [...]
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Newspaper Guild members at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald finally have a new contract. It’s only for two years, and includes a meager 1% pay raise in the second year. Not much, but its the first increase since 2002, according to Baron Sekiya, Hawaii 24/7. Employees had been working without a contract since late last year. With [...]
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I’ve commented here several times over the past several years about the underreporting of street fights and brawls around the island. This week, a sharp-eyed Waikiki resident forwarded the link to this YouTube video showing a street fight in the heart of Waikiki that took place a couple of months ago. We’re talking the center [...]
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