What’s going on over at the state Department of Defense? Makes you wonder…are these guys armed? The DOD is in the process of hiring two consultants to conduct confidential, one-on-one interviews with up to 70 employees “to obtain comprehensive, genuine, and sincere feedback on their feelings about their work environment.” The interviews will be analyzed [...]
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Representative Bob Herkes, chair of the House Committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce, submitted a sharp reply to the Star-Advertiser’s recent coverage of Hawaii’s foreclosure crisis and Act 48, which now regulates nonjudicial foreclosures. The Star-Advertiser declined to print the op-ed as submitted, and an editor explained the newspaper’s decision: As a general rule, we [...]
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In response to yesterday’s post about foreclosures, former Honolulu reporter Rick Daysog, now at the Sacremento Bee, sent a link to a story he did last summer (“Wrongful home foreclosures rare – but devastating“). He reports on a case of a man who was served with a foreclosure notice even though he had paid cash [...]
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Somehow the Star-Advertiser has consistently been turning concern over home foreclosures on its head, bemoaning the drop in foreclosures over the past year as a “problem” needing to be dealt with. It happened again with an editorial a few days ago. After an overwhelming number of foreclosures of Hawaii residences had been decided without going [...]
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I think Dave Shapiro, writing in today’s Star-Advertiser, focuses appropriate attention on the appointment of the chair of the city’s Authority for Rapid Transportation as an attorney for First Hawaiian Bank. Civil Beat noted the appointment of Carrie Okinaga, a partner at the law firm of McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon before being named city’s top [...]
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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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It’s amazing what computers can do as an aid to long-term memory. I managed to find several of my old folders in a backup of a long-gone computer. It’s got files dating back more than 20 years relating to Eric Lighter, convicted this week in San Jose on 17 counts stemming from a complex tax [...]
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A couple of days ago, I emailed UH public affairs staff to request additional information concerning the governance issues raised by the university’s recent NCAA self study. I received an automated response from former Star-Bulletin editor, Diane Chang, now director of communications for UH Manoa. The University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, including the Media [...]
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