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About sixty people attended a community meeting in Kahuku yesterday for an update on two City Council resolutions that could affect efforts to block further development of Turtle Bay.
The meeting was hosted by Council member Donovan Dela Cruz and attended by council member and mayoral canidate Ann Kobayashi, and was strongly backed by the Defend [...]

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It was cloudy this morning as we prepared to leave the house just minutes before 6 a.m. and it was still very cloudy after we looped back up to the end of fire station road, then doubled back to the station, crossed Kamehameha Highway at Swanzy Beach Park, stopped to deliver the morning’s dog biscuits [...]

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Yesterday’s sunrise in Kaaawa wasn’t spectacular, but its colors very gradually emerged as the night gave way to day. The Monday holiday means a short work week, and it feels odd to already be at mid-week. As usual, click on the photo to see a larger version.
A non-bylined story in the Advertiser this morning reports [...]

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I went looking this morning for a list of Hawaii delegates to the Republican National Convention, but came up empty handed. I went to the convention web site and then clicked on the “Delegates” tab, which seemed hopeful. No list of delegates there. I tried searching for things like “delegate list”, but no luck. Why [...]

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Still some more odds and ends to share from Denver and the Democratic National Convention.
I took this photo from the light rail to show the anti-war message on the top of a building in an industrial area of the city. Lots of delegates rode the rail past this spot every day. The sign is [...]

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Welcome to Hawaii, originally uploaded by ilind.

This is the first impression we’re giving visitors. If you can see it in
this photo, one escalator is not working and the stairs are blocked off.
Both in disrepair. Aloha, Hawaii state government style.
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What the…, originally uploaded by ilind.

Tornado shelter? Right here in the Denver airport? I don’t like seeing
that sign. But if there’ going to be a tornado, I guess better a shelter
than not.
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Tired blogger heading home, originally uploaded by ilind.

We’re at the Denver airport waiting for our connecting flight to LAX and
then on to Honolulu.
Not a moment too soon. Rode the SuperShuttle with the co-chair of Veterans
for Obama. More on that later.
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