I dug out a few more photos from the archives. The first was taken 40 years ago tonight. Meda and I were living in a small, two bedroom apartment in what was then known as the Circle Jade, the unusual round apartment building on 9th Avenue in Kaimuki. It’s now a condominium. In those days [...]
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The year ends with a typical day’s news, it seems. I got up early, checked the Star-Advertiser. A headline in the local news section, repeated online, stated incorrectly that a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of the state’s new civil unions’ law was “thrown out.” The story was correct, unlike the headline. Federal Judge Mike [...]
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This notice was sent out today, announcing elevator repairs that will leave only one of the three elevators functioning in one of UH Manoa’s major classroom buildings. The elevator outage is expected to last for two days. Perhaps they didn’t notice that this will be the first week of classes at UH Manoa, always a [...]
Yes, it’s the final set of Friday Felines for the year. Scrounging around for pictures from the week, I just came up with a few. Two show the diabetic boys, Siverman and Duke, hanging out together. In the top photo, they’re asleep on a corner of our bed. Then they’re on the kitchen counter, where [...]
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Another wet December morning in Kaaawa. And almost the end of another year. Notice the negative spin there? Why didn’t I say, “almost the beginning of another new year”? The latter is really the way we view the world in practice. The former is what my keyboard just produced. “Just lay down on the couch, [...]
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I don’t take kindly to the Hawaiian Electric advertisement that’s been playing the past week or so, formatted as a news interview with HECO executive Robbie Alm. Alm is being interviewed by former news anchor Jade Moon, now a Hawaiian Electric spokesperson, and the ad has been running during evening news broadcasts. It probably also [...]
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I don’t agree with the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by a group of non-Hawaiians demanding to receive the same exemption from county real property taxes granted to those living on lands leased from the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. The case is just another in a string of cases seeking to end all [...]
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It looks like there’s a new push underway to return to “closed” primary elections in Hawaii. In November, Oahu Democratic Party Chairman Tony Gill appealed to the board of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, the faculty union, to support a federal lawsuit challenging Hawaii’s open primary. Gill, who also serves as UHPA’s legal counsel, [...]
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