The State Department of Health announced its intention last month to award a $25,040 no-bid contract to the Healthy Hawaii Coalition, a nonprofit group founded and controlled by Senator Mike Gabbard and his daughter, Honolulu City Councilmember Tulsi Gabbard. The two-year contract from the Clean Water Branch, Environmental Management Division, is “to develop and present [...]
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FYI: An Open Letter In Defense of Hawaii’s Environment & Open Government to Hawaii State House of Representatives, State Senate, & Governor Neil Abercrombie A quick taste: Certain legislators’ eagerness to circumvent or skirt legal requisites in order to fast-track development projects, without first considering inevitable impacts on the overall environment and public participation, show [...]
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SB755 started out last year as a gambling bill proposing to authorize two licenses for “peer-to-peer entertainment,” including poker. This week it morphed into a virtual smorgasbord of exemptions from environmental reviews and regulations for a wide range of state and county projects. Worried about the impact of that big interisland cable to move electricity [...]
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Hey, what is the governor thinking? Here we are in the midst of an election year where one of the state’s U.S. Senate seats is up for grabs, and Gov. Abercrombie has staked out a position in support of a development that will replace 1,000 acres of prime Oahu agricultural land with nearly 12,000 new [...]
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You never know what you’re going to stumble over. This morning I hurriedly skimmed through bills that will be up for 3rd reading votes in the House this week, and flagged several for further attention. Among them, largely ignored, is SB 2267, which would allocate $100 million in special purpose revenue bonds to Clearcom, a [...]
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I saw this bumper sticker on a car in Kaimuki this week, and it reminded me that there’s an important voice that has been lost in the rail debate. Hawaii’s architects stepped forward to challenge the city’s design choices, but somehow their “third way” message failed to gain traction in the back and forth between [...]
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John Cory, writing in Reader Supported News, certainly showed he knows how to write a lead, even when beginning with a question. In a recent article, Barbra Streisand asked: Where Is The Fourth Estate When You Need Them? Well Ms. Streisand, they ran away from home and joined the ugly circus of pundit shows and [...]
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I don’t take kindly to the Hawaiian Electric advertisement that’s been playing the past week or so, formatted as a news interview with HECO executive Robbie Alm. Alm is being interviewed by former news anchor Jade Moon, now a Hawaiian Electric spokesperson, and the ad has been running during evening news broadcasts. It probably also [...]
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