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Water off at 4 UH Manoa buildings on first day of classes 26 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
Either UH Manoa doesn’t believe in “truth in naming,” or someone has quite a sense of humor. Remember that today is the first day of classes for the fall semester. And an alert was emailed out few m...
Kauai County Council to finally consider regulation of lobbyists 26 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
Back at the beginning of July, my weekly column at CivilBeat.com was about Kauai County’s failure to regulate lobbyists (“Hawaii Monitor: Kauai’s Free Range Lobbyists“). It began: Thirty-five years ...
Candidates’ fundraising during first six months of 2013 26 Aug 2013 | 01:20 am
Here’s another slice of the most recent round of campaign contribution data. I’ve ranked all candidates and elected officials by the total contributions received by their campaigns during the period ...
Partial list of churches using public school facilities 24 Aug 2013 | 11:48 pm
Mitch Kahle and Holly Huber have made available a list of 126 churches that were using public school facilities based on documents they have been able to obtain for the 2011-2012 school year. Some sc...
Feline Friday: Romeo struts his stuff 23 Aug 2013 | 11:26 pm
Romeo welcomes you to another fine Feline Friday! He’s been getting a workout. In addition to patrolling the boundary to keep the next door cats from wandering through our yard, Romeo and Annie have ...
More info on Hawaiian foods 22 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
Here are two more sets of notes about Hawaiian plants and foods. I found these in files containing research notes belonging to the late University of Hawaii Professor Carey D. Miller. First, there ar...
Major fire threatens my sister’s home in California mountains 22 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
I dropped my sister off at the airport yesterday morning for a Hawaiian Air flight to Oakland, the first leg on her mainland trip. Next stop is supposed to be her home up in Groveland, located in the ...
Over at Civil Beat: ‘Jihad against God’? 21 Aug 2013 | 11:14 pm
The “big picture” of religious use of schools for worship finds very widespread use across the state, far more than I expected. The details are even more unsettling, showing how tightly the churches ...
Documents back up charge of massive underpayment for church use of schools 20 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
Take note: As I suspected, there’s a whole lot under the hood of the lawsuit targeting underpayment by five Hawaii churches for use of public schools for worship services and other activities. Here a...
Two more views on “sovereignty” and federal recognition 20 Aug 2013 | 11:19 pm
I received two private emails regarding my recent comments on the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission and its latest effort to compile a roster of Hawaiians. Both emails came from attorneys with signific...
