Here’s some other reading to check out. “Women and the Economy 2010: 25 Years of Progress But Challenges Ramain” U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee, August 2010. “NASA/NOAA Study Finds El Niños Growing Stronger” August 25, 2010 The key finding here is that El Ninos are growing stronger in the Central Pacific, south of Hawaii, instead [...]
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Misc. reading–Women’s economic challenges, El Nino, Sunshine in Kona, more…
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · General, Media, Sunshine
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A slice of history in accessing Hawaii public records
August 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · History, Sunshine
Prompted by the recent post here regarding the changing times, as evidenced by the online availability of judicial financial disclosures, Tim DeVault emailed this first-person account from an earlier era of public access. Especially enlightening was his final vignette describing the arbitrary roadblocks that were eliminated when his bureaucratic nemesis decided that he qualified as [...]
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Civil Beat discloses state worker salaries
August 20th, 2010 · 27 Comments · Sunshine
Civil Beat disclosed the salaries of more than 14,000 state employees this week, generating some debate over the propriety of disclosure and questions about their decision to put most of the data behind their pay wall. In response to a public record request made several months ago, Civil Beat obtained a 334-page list of salaries [...]
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Hawaii judges’ financial disclosures now available online
August 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Sunshine
Times do change, and sometimes for the better! No, I’m not just saying that because it’s my birthday and I’m trying to feel really good about the passage of time. What prompted the comment today is my discovery that the financial disclosure statements filed by state judges are now available to the public online via [...]
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Ellsberg hits Obama administration’s attacks on whistleblowers
August 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments · Media, Politics, Sunshine
Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, in recent interviews, is underscoring the Obama’s administration’s aggressive assault on those accused of leaking official information. It’s a point the media have been slow to recognize. Here’s an exchange during an interview with The Economist: DiA: Do you think the government is actively working against Wikileaks? Mr Ellsberg: [...]
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Longtime State Ethics Director comments on secrecy of complaints, inadequate budget
June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Ethics, Sunshine
Dan Mollway, who served as executive director of the State Ethics Commission for over 24 years, submitted this comment overnight. I decided it deserved to be promoted to a main post. Comments welcome, as always. A number of years ago I drafted as a first step and had introduced a bill to have all charges [...]
Finding public records online
June 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Media, Sunshine
I was asked to do an informal presentation on using online public records to develop leads and stories. While preparing, I sat down and quickly listed off sources of online records that I routinely use. The list turned out to be longer than I thought it would be. For the presentation, I added comments on [...]
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More thoughts about Mufi’s Pittsburgh fundraiser
June 13th, 2010 · 24 Comments · Campaigns, Sunshine
A couple of interesting comments concerning Friday’s item about the questions raised by Hannemann fundraiser in Pittsburgh. Keith Rollman, “senior advisor” in the city’s Department of Information Technology and an advisor to Hannemann’s mayoral campaign (and likely to his current campaign?), commented: The Hannemann haters want to blow up Cox’s planted story into the second [...]
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