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Friends of former Kaaawa neighbor and MidWeek editor (1989-94) Vera Benedek, who has been living in Alaska for over a decade, received an email from her yesterday.
For those of you who have asked me about Sarah Palin, as well as those of you who just haven’t gotten around to it yet. This is one [...]

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After McCain chose Alaska’s governor as his running mate, it suddenly doesn’t seem so far fetched that Lingle might also have been considered. After all, she has a lot more experience than Palin, both local and national. But she probably also has a lot more baggage to be considered and isn’t conservative enough for the [...]

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What does this mean? I don’t know, but I thought I would share this this photo plucked out of the archive (carefully housed in a few cardboard boxes in the back of a closet) yesterday while musing about the next week at the Democratic Convention in Denver. It was taken about 20 years ago while [...]

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I really didn’t know what to expect when Toby’s favorite twins and their parents paid a visit to Kaaawa during a short stay back in the islands. It’s been over a year since he’s seen them. Would he run and hide like the rest of our scaredy cats when the unfamiliar car pulled into [...]

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One suggestion that came my way yesterday is that Walter Dods move to an active role in Hawaiian Telcom as its Chairman was a defensive move to save his own investment and those of his friends who also put money into the buyout of the former Verizon Hawaii. A merger might be one way to [...]

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Andy Parx, in a comment here yesterday, questioned my assessment of this week’s Supreme Court decision on Hawaii’s experiment in publicly financed elections passed by the legislature this year.
Any wrote:
I don’t think you’re reading this right Ian. It has nothing to do with full public financing laws- or for that matter any public financing laws [...]

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Hawaii is back in the national election spotlight with the opening this afternoon of the Democratic Party’s state convention. At least two issues are drawing national attention.
Most important is the election of three superdelegates who could make a key difference in the tight presidential race where every vote is likely to count. Delegates will [...]

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We put diesel in our tank yesterday. The price was about 20 cents a gallon higher than the last fillup, which was about the same amount higher than the time before that. I think yesterday was $4.469 per gallon. Ouch. When we bought this car, diesel was selling for less than gasoline. No more. At [...]

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