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  • The wait is almost over - vetoes announced tomorrow

    Number of comments: 2

    Long time, no posting. Sorry. This post has been on my back burner for quite some time, and now it is finally time for me to act.

    Back in early May, the Governor issued a press release seeking public comment and input on the bills transmitted to her by [...]

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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 2:24pm EDT
    by Doug

  • UH part of effort to send ROV to bottom of deepest ocean trench

    Number of comments: 3

    It’s been a while since I have used the science category (not surprisingly, since it’s been a while since I have done any scientific work), but the Saipan Tribune reports on a research expedition from the R/V Kilo Moana, a UH-operated ship that used to take me to sea [...]

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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 3:39pm EDT
    by Doug

  • AG reverses its opinion of furloughs, with curious timing

    Number of comments: 4

    Thanks to the Hawaii House Majority for this blog post that provides two opinions sent from the Attorney General’s office to Speaker Say in response to a series of questions about furloughs. The first opinion, dated February 17, told the Speaker that furloughs would need to be part of [...]

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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 3:39pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Motion? What motion? Denied.

    Number of comments: 6

    Hmmm. The Hawaii Supreme Court has not (so far as I know) responded to the Lingle administration’s motion to reconsider the Superferry ruling. More than ten days have elapsed since her motion and the Senate’s amicus brief were submitted nearly a month ago.

    According to the procedure Charley Foster helpfully [...]

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    Posted: May 10, 2009, 7:22am EDT
    by Doug

  • Budget in limbo serves as a de facto furlough

    Number of comments: 3

    From a KGMB story:

    [T]he governor could veto the entire budget. She has asked for guidance from her advisors about that option.

    “If she vetoes the budget,” said Sen. Donna Mercado Kim, “come July 1st, when the new budget is supposed to take effect, then they wouldn’t have a budget, [...]

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    Posted: May 09, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
    by Doug

  • More on the budget veto meme

    Number of comments: 4

    Hmmm. It is getting more weird. Since last week, when Borreca had a seemingly throw-away comment in a Q & A with Speaker Say, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and some checking. To that end, I decided to compare the transfer language in past budgets to [...]

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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 3:55pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Hypothesis: Veto threat is another collective bargaining strategy

    Number of comments: 3

    After a night of rest and a workout to brood on my previous post, I have a simple hypothesis that might explain why the Governor told Speaker Say that she may veto the budget bill:

    So long as the budget bill is not law, Governor Lingle has more leverage during [...]

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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 12:28am EDT
    by Doug

  • What happens if the budget were vetoed?

    Part I of II in a Poli-Sci-themed day of posts.

    Embedded in this Star-Bulletin story is a very intriguing passage that is offered without further comment:

    [Speaker] Say said [Governor] Lingle stopped by his office Tuesday morning to discuss the state budget and let him know she might veto the budget [...]

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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Two-thirds majority? Don’t be fool(ed/ish)

    Part II of II in a Poli-Sci-themed day of posts.

    I’ve seen a few Twitter tweets today about an agreement reached during conference meetings on SB 1677 that would require the Lege to pass a concurrent resolution with a supermajority vote before the conclusion of any sale or transfer of [...]

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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Hawaii County internet use investigation is not open-ended

    Number of comments: 5

    Just as Aaron Stene and Tiffany Edwards Hunt have heard from Hawaii County Corporation Counsel Lincoln Ashida in response to what they wrote on their blogs, Ashida has responded to my post, too.

    I wrote:

    Sounds almost reasonable, until you consider that the County may never (probably will never, [...]

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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
    by Doug

  • House Democrats to meet with bloggers and journalists

    I was politely offered an invitation by Georgette Deemer when the event was still in the conceptual stages, but I won’t make it to the Capitol (during working hours) to attend a Meet the Media Workshop. At that point Deemer made the offer (December 3) it was unclear what was [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 3:05pm EST
    by Doug

  • Representative Bob Nakasone dies

    Number of comments: 1
    The Maui News (and other sources) reports that Nakasone died on Sunday after months of fighting lung cancer. Rather than provide an account Nakasone’s political and personal history, which I trust the Maui News and others will attempt, let me just add my own memories of working around (but never for) [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2008, 2:59pm EST
    by Doug

  • Click of the week?

    Number of comments: 1
    Aww, shucks, I’ve been recognizedby the Maui Time Weekly as a “click of the week”… which is, as my readers have noticed, about equal to my posting pace of late, haha. I reckon it was this post that gave MW the nudge. I do appreciate the recognition, but I’d rather [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 1:23pm EST
    by Doug

  • Burglar with a sweet tooth, cloak and dagger skullduggery, or an employee raid on the fridge?

    Number of comments: 3
    Could be nothing, or it could become a really explosive story. The Star-Bulletin reports on a break-in at the office of the Ethics Commission where, at this point, it seems that very little was taken. Of course, given the nature of the Commission and its investigations, the “burglary” may only be [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2008, 5:38am EST
    by Doug

  • Editorial independence tested at MTW

    Number of comments: 2
    For as long as I have been following the Maui Time Weekly there has been a column called “LC Watch” that keeps tabs on the Maui Liquor Commission. Ordinarily that may not seem like a “beat” worthy of a regular coverage, yet often the columns are entertaining and even newsworthy. [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2008, 1:51pm EST
    by Doug

  • What happens in areas with no beverage container deposit?

    Number of comments: 1
    I can hardly imagine how many attempts were involved in producing this! If they had a nickel for every one… haha. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2008, 2:08pm EST
    by Doug

  • Online comments at Advertiser are subpoenaed

    Number of comments: 1
    Within an Advertiser story about a legal battle to allow the latest plaintiffs against the Kamehemeha Schools to remain anonymous, is this: Attorney David Rosen yesterday said that news stories about U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Kurren’s ruling generated new threats and Rosen asked Kurren to reverse his decision. Rosen said callers [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 1:39pm EST
    by Doug

  • Bitter, much?

    Number of comments: 10
    Okay, these photo-shopped “elephant hunter” pics are genius, in my opinion. From there, however, Eric Ryan (er, an anonymous writer, rather) sets out on a satirical rampage at ZeroShibai. Meanwhile, at Hawaii Reporter, we see posts from GOP Chair Willes Lee with a weak thank you and one from Garry Smith [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 5:08am EST
    by Doug

  • Time and place restrictions for use of state beaches for weddings

    Number of comments: 4
    I noticed this provocatively-titled post at Hawaii Reporter from RC Anderson who is characterized as an “Archbishop” and “Patriarch of the Ecumenical Catholic Church of America in Honolulu.” Anderson is upset about a new DLNR permitting process and argues that impending changes to the permitting process for weddings on state [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 5:07am EST
    by Doug

  • 233 years and counting

    Number of comments: 2
    Let’s see if this works, my first attempt to embed a video… For those of you have never marched and performed close order drill, I assure you that the level of precision in the Silent Drill Platoon is incredibly hard to perfect. …even for Marines. I’m a sucker for this stuff, so [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2008, 11:26pm EST
    by Doug

  • Honolulu Prosecutor (instead of an independent counsel) asked to consider hydrogen fund allegations

    Number of comments: 7
    Attorney General Mark Bennett has released (PDF) a response to the Senate Special Investigative Committee on the Hydrogen Investment Capital Special Management Contract Award Final Report (another PDF). Bennett attempts to hand over the matter to Honolulu Prosecutor Peter Carlisle. In its Final Report the Special Committee had requested the [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 2:08pm EST
    by Doug

  • Wow!

    Did you vote? Exciting times indeed. Now for the local results… [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 1:17pm EST
    by Doug

  • I expected as much… and I mean that in many ways

    Number of comments: 5
    Okay, no matter where you stand on the rail project, this parody of the Advertiser front page is a clever satire. Via Zero Shibai. [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2008, 3:41pm EDT
    by Doug

  • High crude oil prices = great news for Tesoro shareholders

    Number of comments: 3
    I can’t understand (or comprehend) some of the data in this Star-Bulletin article about Tesoro’s quarterly report: “This quarter’s performance highlights our commitment to delivering on our company’s stated goal of lowering crude costs and increasing product netbacks,” Bruce Smith, Tesoro’s chief executive, said in a statement. 1. How the heck does [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 3:25pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Speaker Say suggests lawmakers forego pay raise

    Number of comments: 6
    From a Star-Bulletin story (similar to an earlier Advertiser blog posting): According to the state Constitution, legislators cannot accept pay raises that are recommended during their term of office, so the 2007 raises goes into effect with the next legislative session. Almost correct. Because of staggered 4-year terms, some Senators would get [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 3:15pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Naeole disputes her own CSC filings

    Number of comments: 2
    This passage in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald caught my eye today: [Councilmember] Naeole has raised more money than [former Councilmember] Safarik, who made a strong primary showing to force a runoff for the lower Puna seat. Although she raised only $300 in the last reporting period, Sept. 6-20 — the final two [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 2:38pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Governor Lingle to debate Senator Boxer?

    Number of comments: 2
    I noticed at least two passing mentions of Republican and Democratic proxies (i.e. Lingle and Boxer) to debate in Cincinnati today (Star-Bulletin and Advertiser), but, now that the debate has finished I have yet to find anything online describing how it went. Were the media excluded from the event? Unlikely. Perhaps [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2008, 2:44pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Progression and regression at neighbor island newspaper sites

    Number of comments: 4
    First, the progress. The Garden Island News has completely updated the look of its website. Taking a significant step towards 2008—after hovering in a circa 2003 format for quite some time…. Meanwhile, the Maui News has decided to kill off the comments fora previously associated with each article on its website. [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 3:05pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Does this gambit ever work?

    Number of comments: 4
    Once again we see articles (Star-Bulletin and Advertiser) where defendants in Hawaii courts base their defense on claims of being outside of the jurisdiction of the Hawaii courts. It’s an interesting debate, to be sure, but hasn’t the legal argument been defeated (or, more generally, ignored) again and again? This is [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2008, 3:34pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Interpreting spoiled ballots - adhocracy in action

    Number of comments: 3
    I was flummoxed by this paragraph in a recent Advertiser story: Rex Quidilla, of the Office of Elections, said voters who picked a party had their votes for that party’s candidates counted at precincts even if they tried to cross over and vote for another party’s candidates in certain races. He [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 3:14pm EDT
    by Doug

  • New SB look - impersonation as the highest form of flattery?

    Number of comments: 1
    Is it just me, or does the Star-Bulletin makeover look an awful lot like the Advertiser? Granted, there are only so many (non-bizarre) ways to present the content, but at least the old S-B format was different enough as to be easily distinguishable from the competition. Not any more. [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Dust off those resumĂ© files

    Number of comments: 8
    The Senate is now hiring for the 2009 regular session. I would expect that the House is, too. [Beaten to the punch again!] Ya think there may be a few former finance industry workers among the applicants for this year? Or perhaps Aloha Airlines employees and agricultural workers—and tourism officials. Seriously, though, [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2008, 2:51pm EDT
    by Doug

  • That’s a BIG if…

    Number of comments: 10
    From the conclusion of today’s Star Bulletin Borreca column: Democrats are starting to use Gov. Lingle’s administration as a point of attack. “People can’t put their finger on anything that Linda Lingle has done,” Senate Vice President Donna Kim (D, Kalihi Valley-Halawa) said. “One of her biggest things was Turtle Bay and [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2008, 2:20pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Sergeant Peralta denied Medal of Honor*

    Number of comments: 3
    Disapointed. The Advertiser and Star-Bulletin report that Marine Sergeant Rafael Peralta will be awarded the Navy Cross after the Secretary of Defense disapproved the Medal of Honor (previously approved by the Secretary of the Navy). The Congress has already acted on this matter and the Act authorizing the MOH was awaiting [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2008, 3:43pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Asleep at the switch

    Number of comments: 3
    The West Hawaii Today reports about Act 145 which allows for renewable energy projects on agricultural zoned lands. Under the new law, the various County planners will have little power to approve or disapprove of any such projects. [Hawaii County] Planning Director Chris Yuen said Monday the Planning Department will still [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 2:54pm EDT
    by Doug

  • The faithful and the doubters

    Number of comments: 15
    My UIPA requests for the Rex Johnson emails are still unfilled. I am told that response deadline has been extended to September 12, 2008, because a) “the agency must consult with another person in order to determine whether the record is exempt from disclosure under Chapter 92F, HRS;” b) my [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 1:34pm EDT
    by Doug

  • LRB takes a hammer to the LG’s ConCon Task Force report

    Number of comments: 10
    You don’t really get the full effect from the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser articles today, but the new LRB report about what it would cost to hold a Constitutional Convention raises some serious questions about the assumptions behind the Lieutenant Governor’s Task Force report on the same subject. Granted, the LRB [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2008, 3:10pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Advertiser bloggers are back

    It appears that the blogs written by unionized workers at the Advertiser have returned to posting new material. Only one week? So far as I know, all that changed was an agreement between the management and labor to offer bridge loans to workers having trouble switching to a new payroll [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2008, 2:47pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Roz Savage should arrive Monday

    Number of comments: 1
    Wow. Truly amazing stuff! Roz Savage, the woman rowing alone to Hawaii from California should make landfall in Waikiki after over three months at sea! She still needs to cross the Kaiwi Channel which can be sketchy on a small boat (and that is with a good view of where [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Candidate profiles in one stop

    I noticed a neat service (I think that link should work, but it’s Java, so who maybe not…) at the Office of Elections Website. You can go to that page to find candidate profiles of every candidate on the ballot (well, everyone who bothered to submit information, at least). If [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 1:47pm EDT
    by Doug

  • S.S. Opala finally arrives

    After a very slow crossing from Long Beach, a sailing vessel (using that term generously) made of rubbish has arrived at Oahu. Nice photos at the Advertiser and a story at the Star-Bulletin. I hope to be able to swing by the Waikiki Aquarium for a closer look at this [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2008, 4:42pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Advertiser union workers stop blogging; unions run ad in Midweek

    Number of comments: 6
    The pushing is becoming closer to shoving. The latest update is from a post at Hawaii Reporter. No blogging as of today from the Advertiser unionized workers. In response, the comment fora on those blogs have been shut down by management. Presumably to deny any place for comments in support [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 2:44pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Don’t hold your breath waiting for a response

    Had a small cynical chuckle when I read a Stephens Media piece (here and here) about the “sticky” gasoline prices in Hawaii. Larry Adams, director of sales and marketing for Aloha Petroleum, did not answer questions on how Aloha determines how much to charge for gasoline in an e-mail Thursday. There was [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 2:43pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Senator Hooser revives his moribund blog for Convention

    Number of comments: 2
    Well, I had de-blogrolled (sorry, but is that a verb?) Senator Gary L. Hooser for not having any recent posts, but today I see him linked from the KHNL website. Hooser is blogging from the DNC. He has an interesting post raving about the Denver light rail line, the proximity [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2008, 5:22am EDT
    by Doug

  • The confrontation makes the news, but not the substance

    Number of comments: 4
    I was scratching my head after reading the end of this Star-Bulletin article about the Honolulu Council meeting this week: [Mayor] Hannemann also criticized Councilman Donovan Dela Cruz, who sharply grilled city Transportation Services Director Wayne Yoshioka, calling Dela Cruz “juvenile.” Dela Cruz and Yoshioka sometimes got heated during the Council [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 3:47pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Hawaii Public Radio hosts candidates; talks politics and elections

    I spent the afternoon at the vet (for Perl’s scheduled check-up) and then plodded over to Ewa Beach in pursuit of a good deal on a craigslist find, but I have made it home in time to hear the radio show described in this Advertiser piece. As luck with have [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2008, 3:28pm EDT
    by Doug

  • My former gig gets some media attention

    Fun to see this Star-Bulletin story about the underwater glider program at UH. After I was laid off from Hawaii Mapping Research Group, I worked on this project (briefly, for less than a year) with Professor Karl and the HOT/CMORE gang! Good times… The photo printed in the article is from [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2008, 3:04pm EDT
    by Doug

  • Milblogger from Hawaii muzzled

    Number of comments: 1
    A long time ago, when former-Representative Tamayo was blogging from Iraq, I wrote a post where I wondered what other milbloggers from Hawaii were out there blogging from Iraq or Afghanistan. Well, today the Star-Bulletin In the Military column mentions a blog by a Schofield-based soldier in Iraq that apparently [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 8:31am EDT
    by Doug

  • Da winnah!

    Number of comments: 2
    I am so stoked! This is the first organized 5K I’ve done since the three-mile fitness tests in the Marine Corps (which were 15 years ago—and two minutes faster), and I won the thing. I did not just win my age group, but I beat the whole field. Okay, there [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 2:27pm EDT
    by Doug

  • If nobody else will try, then I will

    Number of comments: 15
    Since neither the Advertiser nor the Star-Bulletin seem to think it is necessary for the public to see the messages at the root of Rex Johnson’s current employment jeopardy as head of the Hawaii Tourism Authority before (or after) the Board passes judgment on him, I am asking DBEDT to [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2008, 3:47pm EDT
    by Doug
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