Associa, Certified Management’s Dallas-based parent company, sent an update to Hawaii clients last week regarding the alleged theft of funds by its former CEO. Toni Floerke was fired last month after allegedly admitting misappropriating money from three condominium associations. The company now says losses are at the upper end of the previously estimated range, although [...]
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Here’s a quick follow-up on the story of theft from condominiums managed by Certified Management. A tipster pointed me back to a story by Lynn Nakagawa in Pacific Business News last month (“Bankers want clarification from Mutual of Omaha“). The story describes a complaint by the Hawaii Bankers Association that Certified Hawaii and Hawaii First, [...]
Tags: Codominium issues
Last week’s post examining our television viewing options drew lots of comments, with both suggestions and questions posed. A day or so later, Meda ran across a USA Today story from last fall (“Consumers cut pay-TV service for Web-based programming“). As is the case in so many things, these personal dilemmas reflect broader conditions impacting [...]
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Blogging about the changing world of television a couple of days ago prompted me to take a look about our own situation. That led to an examination of our Oceanic bill and our television viewing habits. It’s obvious that we’re paying way too much every month, mostly for channels we never, ever watch. So it [...]
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This alert arrived via Henry Curtis of Life of the Land. Henry calls attention to hearing scheduled for tomorrow HB2874 originally had a triple referral, but missed the deadline when neither the committee on economic development and business, or consumer protection and commerce, set it for a public hearing. But on February 16, it was [...]
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I have a friend with a problem. She says AT&T, which provides her iPhone service, has made a mistake which is now impacting her credit rating. And the company’s customer service has proved to be a maze filled with false turns, dropped calls, errors, and misinformation. I can appreciate her problem, which I’ll explain in [...]
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This legislative alert was received from Donna Wong of Hawaii’s Thousand Friends. ACTION ALERT! WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! WHAT’S HAPPENING – Your Free Speech is at Risk! As many of you know, Public Access Television is under a huge threat! For Oahu, Olelo Community Media will have to shut down its community media centers and [...]
Tags: Olelo·Public Education and Government Access Television
The following February 1, 2012 email from Jay April, president and CEO of Akaku: Maui Community Television, to DCCA Kealii Lopez challenges Oceanic Time Warner’s unilateral moves of several public access channels from analog to digital signals. Digital signals take much less bandwidth than analog, so the company can create several digital channels in place [...]
