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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We left the Washington Hilton hotel at 12:30 a.m. Friday, Hawaii time, and arrived at Honolulu airport at about 5 p.m., finally getting home to Kaaawa about 7 p.m., making for a very long day with a lot of things happening. I noted several media-related items. First, there was the sale of the San Diego [...]
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Here’s some food for thought. There are some statistics available concerning assaults in Waikiki and elsewhere on Oahu, and it isn’t a pretty picture. I suggest downloading the Honolulu Police Department’s annual crime statistics for 2009, the latest year available. The island is broken down into districts, sectors, and beats. Districts are the largest, beats [...]
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Back when I was a pup, in the days long before cell phone videos and concerns about civil rights, the Honolulu Police Department had something called the Metro Squad. They were very visible throughout the 1960s in potential trouble spots like Waikiki, where they looked for trouble and could respond in kind. They cruised the [...]
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Excellent work by Gordon Y.K. Pang and Michael Tsai, along with Craig Gima and Rob Shikina, in pulling together lots of information on the fatal shooting involving a federal agent in Honolulu for APEC. Their article appears in today’s Star-Advertiser. They were able to background the alleged shooter through online sources while official sources remained [...]
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More on the big sandwich case, but first: As of this morning, Romeo’s wake-up video had jumped to 19,635 views. That’s just shy of 1,000 added views since yesterday morning at this time. Now, on to Safeway country. • Can you believe that I’m almost feeling sorry for Safeway? I’m not sure what’s the worst [...]
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Dealing with a family medical matter left me little time yesterday to worry about today’s blog post. Usually I have a chance over the course of the day to browse around, select something interesting that’s worth picking apart, and having at least a few thoughts when the cats start the 5 a.m. wakeup call. Today, [...]
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Here’s a little item that makes you wonder. The state awarded a $327,000 contract last year for installation of a photovoltaic system on the roof of the Waimea Public Library on Kauai. It’s one of a series of similar installations on state buildings in various parts of the state. But the contractor ran into a [...]
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