Nikki Love of Common Cause Hawaii provided this alert: Just a brief note: Tomorrow (Tues March 1) at 9AM in Senate JDL, a proposed SD1 has been posted for SB671. The proposed SD1 makes major changes to the gifts/ethics laws. It seems that the proposed SD1 creates exemptions that would allow, among other things: –Gifts [...]
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The stories about Hawaii Regional Cuisine in Sunday’s Star-Advertiser reminded me of another batch of photos and documents found among my dad’s papers. Most of these date from the First Exhibit of Culinary Arts put on by the local chapter of the International Geneva Association in January 1959, although there’s one clipping from 1963. My [...]
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…it’s the grass that suffers. That seems to be the takeaway message of the story on a Ko Olina condominium dispute in today’s Star-Advertiser. The story, by Rob Perez, tries to untangle an extremely complicated contractual dispute between Ko Olina Development, the land owner and master developer, and Centex Homes, developer of the Beach Villas [...]
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Success!! We bought a small, handheld glucose meter last weekend in the hopes that we’ll be able to test Duke and Silverman at home. It’s called the Freestyle Freedom Lite. It costs next to nothing. The supplies are where the money is, but they are still WAY less expensive than continued testing by our vet [...]
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Here’s one of the views of the sunrise in Kaaawa this morning as we walked along the beach. Obviously, this is self-reinforcing. Once you get over the fact that it requires getting out of bed early, it’s hard to kick the habit of getting down to the beach at dawn.
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I don’t have pictures of the whole ingredients-to-table process on this, but I did stop for a photo when the lid came off the Dutch oven. I have a very simple recipe for beef shanks that is extremely forgiving, meaning that you can make your own substitutions for most ingredients. We found a package of [...]
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It’s time to take a look at some of the “packages” of bills introduced this year and how different interests are faring. I’ll just pick a few. First, here’s a link to the list of 2011 packages, so that you can do your own browsing. The Campaigns Spending Commission is 2 for 3 at this [...]
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Nikki Love of Common Cause Hawaii warns that the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear HB 1141, which would hide consumer complaints from the public. The bill is part of the committee’s 2 p.m. agenda in Conference Room 325. It’s somewhat of a sneaky bill, because it begins by stating that complaints are to [...]
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