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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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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Here’s my favorite quote that surfaced yesterday: Arizona State Senator Lori Klein, Herman Cain’s Arizona campaign chair, quoted by CBS News: In politics, she said, “we want a virgin to do a hooker’s job.” Ooops. An abbreviated version of this entry was posted by accident this morning. Isn’t language a great thing? That third-person phrasing [...]
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After the city signed off on the rail contract with the Ansaldo partnership, valued at either $1.3 or $1.4 billion depending on the source, Ansaldo now says it is the largest contract in the company’s 150-year history. So not only does it come as Ansaldo faces unprecedented corporate challenges, we now know it is the [...]
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The banner headline in blue and white at the top of today’s Star-Advertiser front page seemed to tell the story: “Governor releases the names of judicial candidates.” I hoped it meant that Gov. Abercrombie had gracefully eaten a bit of that crow he talks about, acknowledged the court order favoring disclosure in the sunshine lawsuit [...]
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Here’s one we haven’t worried about before–fraudulent takeovers of condominium boards. In Las Vegas, prosecutors alleged a complex fraud targeted condominiums thought to be considering construction defect lawsuits, then used shill buyers and paid confederates to take control of the condominium association boards in order to steer the legal work and repair contracts to companies [...]
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After yesterday’s hot exchange of comments over Honolulu’s proposed rail system, I think I’ll try to cool things down by taking another look at the use of pepper spray against peaceful protesters. A comment in response to Monday’s post pointed to a decade-old decision by the 9th Circuit Court holding the use of pepper spray [...]
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Kevin Dayton had a story in yesterday’s Star-Advertiser looking ahead to the first open-court skirmish in the lawsuit challenging the adequacy of the city’s environmental review of the rail project (“Court fight may decide if rail stays on track“). The overall message seemed to be that the lawsuit is just a delaying tactic by rail [...]
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