We’ve got a couple of new additions to our collection of Kaaawa Morning Dogs. These guys (and their people) recently moved into a new house in Kaaawa. We’ve seen them running on the beach a few times recently, and yesterday managed to arrange an introduction. That’s Fisher on the left, and Shiloh on […]
Entries Tagged as 'Politics'
Thursday…New dogs, Convention thought, a Lehman footnote, odds & ends
May 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Dogs · General · Politics
Wednesday…Request submitted for emergency electronic voting system contract
May 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Contract news…The State Elections Office is seeking approval for an emergency $9 million 1-year contract with Hart InterCivic Inc. for an electronic voting system to conduct this year’s elections. The request for an exemption from the regular procurement process comes after an appeal of the contract award by a competing vendor, Election Systems & Software […]
Tuesday…Rumored turnover at Honolulu Weekly, embedded links & privacy, Huffing & puffing, and a few morning dogs
May 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Another six months, another new editor. I’ve heard a second-hand report that’s the story, again, for Honolulu Weekly. I’ve got an e-mail out to a former Hawaii resident rumored to be coming back to take the job. It was just six months ago that I wrote almost the same thing about the hiring of Mindy […]
Monday…Sorry to see the Senate turn down Kitty Lagareta
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Please count me among those who think that the Senate made a mistake when it turned down the reappointment of Kitty Lagareta to the UH Board of Regents.
Unfortunately, it’s a little hard to tell exactly why Lagareta got the boot from reporting on the issue. Here are two excerpts from stories in the Honolulu […]
Tags: Politics
Friday…All pau at the capitol, ag future of Galbraith Wahiawa lands in doubt despite bill’s passage
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Like other legislative staff hired to work during the session, I had to turn in my badge and office key yesterday even before the final work was done. I didn’t wait for the finale, figuring I would catch up with the news later. I packed up files and assorted stuff that accumulated on my desk […]
Thursday…Palace occupation, capitol coup, and an answer on what’s bugging us
May 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
With rumblings of a palace coup in the air yesterday at the State Capitol, the first action turned out to be across at Iolani Palace where one of several groups claiming to be the heir of the Hawaiian kingdom took over the palace grounds. I had a camera with me, but no reader to transfer […]
Tags: General · Photographs · Politics
Wednesday…Upstairs/Downstairs in the House, Superferry lawsuit describes initial financing plans
April 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s the last day of April, and the day before the end of Hawaii’s 2008 legislative session.
While we watched the floor session in the House from the gallery or on television upstairs, the real fireworks were to be found in the running comments on Advertiser political writer Derrick DePledge’s blog entry concerning the dueling end-of-session […]
Superferry disclosed less than 6% of 2007 lobbying costs
April 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Hawaii Superferry, Inc. spent more than 17 times the amount previously disclosed while lobbying for special legislation during 2007, according to amended disclosure forms filed today with the State Ethics Commission.
The company now reports having spent a total of $379,431.52 during calendar year 2007. It had previously filed reports claiming total expenditures of just $21,791.56.
According […]
