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April 23, 2010

Choose Your Own Adventure: How Would You Balance the State Budget?

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Legislators pulled a late night yesterday to pass this year’s State Budget, though they still need to figure…

Counties Could Lose Big on Hotel Tax Revenues

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No wonder the city budget is still up in the air. At Honolulu Hale, they’re nervously watching…

Turtle Bay developer asks Supreme Court to reconsider

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Turtle Bay’s developer has asked the Hawaii Supreme Court to reconsider its April 8 ruling that requires an…

Inouye Stands Tall While Others May Fall

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In a year when even the Senate seats of President Obama and Vice President Biden are in jeopardy, Hawaii's senior senator has clear path to 9th term.

Instead of tents, we now have huddled masses under tarps in Ala Moana Beach Park

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In the abalone light of dawn at Ala Moana Beach Park this morning, blue and green mounds lay scattered under…

Has Earth Day ‘sold out’?

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The long road to paradise is littered with abandoned ideals. But has Earth Day, which celebrates its 40th anniversary today,…

‘C’ is for CAFR, but what does it mean?

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This morning Civil Beat member Chris Holliman asked a great question: “It’s my understanding that the CAFR is required…

Sign in and Other Technical/Product Chatter

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Thanks for bearing with us as we work out some of the product and technical kinks. Some of you were…

At Hoopili, a choice between farming and housing

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For those of you who don’t know much about Hoopili, you will soon. West Oahu has become the…

Trash talk

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Happy Earth Day! It seems as good a time as any to talk about recycling. Next month, the…

A way to understand the news

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The proposed fuel and property tax hikes floating around City Hall this week are a reminder of the serious financial…

Anyone for Half a Rail? Anyone?

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The Denver Post recently published an interesting story about the city’s floundering FasTracks rail program. The scenario sounds eerily…

What’s the lesson for students in Furlough Fridays standoff?

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Who’s standing up for the kids? You have to wonder what lesson children are taking from the standoff between the…

Who are Hawaii’s key players?

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Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama’s half-sister and Hawaii resident, lent the Obama glow to Neil Abercrombie’s campaign for governor at a…

April 22, 2010

Watch out what you tweet!

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A couple hours after I tweeted Wednesday about how user-friendly the city website was for those following…

Social media is alive and well at Honolulu Hale

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For those not watching the Honolulu City Council meeting, Mayor Mufi Hannemann offered this…

Another Day, Another Tax

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The theme at the City Hall budget meeting this week was — see if you can guess? — tax hikes.

Unknown candidates for No. 2 no help for Aiona

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So far, only two Republicans have pulled papers to seek the lieutenant governor’s job, neither of them brand names. That…

April 21, 2010

Wasting away again at the Ala Wai

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As the son (but not “the son of a son”) of a sailor man, I am intimate with the recordings…

No Surprise: Prevedouros Turns Republican

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Panos Prevedouros will run for Honolulu mayor this year if Mufi Hannemann runs for governor, a near…