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  • A “CONCERTED CONSPIRATORIAL EFFORT”?

    A “CONCERTED CONSPIRATORIAL EFFORT”?: A few years back the Kaua`i County Council finally discovered the best way to manipulate the dialogue before the cameras during what some of them call “the show” by taking required testimony on agenda items before and only before their discussions and then, if it’s embarrassing, [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • GOING ROGUER

    GOING ROGUER: Although we are pretty obsessive about keeping up with local and statewide news reports- not as much for the content but for what kind of pabulum we’re being fed- we do miss things.

    But we’re pretty sure that the 2010 plans of Linda “Stepford Wife” Lingle isn’t [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 11:15am EST

  • R-E-S-P-E-C-T

    R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The “old boys club” on Kaua`i is certainly not the province of a single gender anymore. The phrase is merely an anachronistic remnant of he days when only boys would and could be boys.

    Today, regardless of gender, any jerkwad who has the self-initiative to step forward and [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:11pm EST

  • DAT’S ONE DEAD PUPPY

    DAT’S ONE DEAD PUPPY: Once upon a time a man named Kevin took over operations of a public cesspool after the previous overseer had done too good a job of keeping the stink away from our noses. The new guy quickly named himself King of the Dung Heap and decided [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:28am EST

  • WHERE DO THE HUSKIES GO?

    WHERE DO THE HUSKIES GO?: When we first heard that former mayoral candidate Rolf Bieber was appointed to the Kaua`i Board of Ethics (BOE) and heard he was seeking to clean up this town a la Marshall Dillon our world-weary, seen-it-all, smart-ass response was a decidedly satirical “good luck Chuck”.
    [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:27pm EST

  • OPEN FOOT, INSERT MOUTH

    OPEN FOOT, INSERT MOUTH: The obvious late-night-comedian-fodder way the two headlines appeared one above the other, at least on-line-

    Police chief welcomes ‘constructive criticism’
    Doughnuts help sustain leadership program.

    -notwithstanding, the soft-peddled content of reporter Paul Curtis’ articles only serves to underscore the tin ear Chief Darryl [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:27am EST

  • LUCKY DOG

    LUCKY DOG: One advantage attorneys have over we poor mortals when looking at the “I can’t believe they just said that” Kaua`i county government machinations is that they spend most of their time with noses stuck in the archaic minutia of prior court decisions.

    Through such tedium Kaua`i attorney [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:20pm EST

  • PREROGATIVE BY PAVLOV

    PREROGATIVE BY PAVLOV: The Hawai`i Supreme Court’s recent refusal to overturn 5th Circuit Judge Kathleen Watenabe’s “irretrievably intertwined” ruling specifically dealing with the Kaua`i County Council’s Executive Session (ES) 177 was, though disappointing for both open governance advocates and the Office of Information Practices (OIP), not surprising given the deference [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:07pm EST

  • (PNN) BOE’S WEIL CALLS CA’S 20.02(D) OPINION “LOUSY LAWYERING”

    BOE’S WEIL CALLS CA’S 20.02(D) OPINION “LOUSY LAWYERING”: (PNN) -- In a stunningly blunt couple of letters written in mid September, Board of Ethics member, attorney Paul Weil, scathingly attacked and belittled both a county attorney opinion regarding the conflict of interest provisions of the controversial county charter section 20.02(D) [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:26am EST

  • POLITICAL WON’T

    POLITICAL WON’T: Our post Wednesday on the flakey “opinion” given to the charter commission regarding the county manager issue drew a couple of comments that deserve exposition, on an issue we kind of glossed over because it seemed to be self-apparent to us- but obviously not to everybody.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • A SERIES OF PAINFUL SHOTS IN THE BELLY

    A SERIES OF PAINFUL SHOTS IN THE BELLY: Our last two chief executives – the late Mayor Bryan Baptiste and current Mayor Bernard Carvalho- have had somewhat divergent management styles. While Baptiste’s explosive temper, petty vindictive nature and penchant for secrecy belied his moniker of “Mayor Aloha” Carvalho is more [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:07am EST

  • PAWED AND FLAWED AGAIN

    PAWED AND FLAWED AGAIN: While sitting around kibitzing and kvetching in the council chambers with our pal Tony Sommer, former Honolulu Star- Bulletin Kauai Bureau Chief and author of “KPD Blue” he used to routinely pronounce judgment on the foibles and folly with one of his favorite sayings- “when you [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:50pm EST

  • TO-DA-DUMP, TO-DA-DUMP, TO-DA-DUMP-DUMP-DUMP

    TO-DA-DUMP, TO-DA-DUMP, TO-DA-DUMP-DUMP-DUMP: As if to underscore our point yesterday- that the county is seeking to obscure the fact that this Thursday’s meeting regarding the proposed Kalaheo (“Umi”) location for the new landfill is, in reality the scoping meeting for the required environmental impact statement, former Councilmember Mel Rapozo’s blog [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:33am EST

  • DUMP-DA-DUMP-DUMP

    DUMP-DA-DUMP-DUMP: Many on Kaua`i were left scratching their heads when Mayor Bernard Carvalho accepted his Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Landfill Site Selection recommendation to place the new county landfill in the middle of arguably the most financially productive ag land on the island, currently in use growing coffee for the [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:19am EST

  • DOGGIE SEE DOGGIE DO

    DOGGIE SEE DOGGIE DO: In these times of idiotic penny-wise pound-foolish cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face decision-making designed to avoid the politically distasteful raising of taxes to pay for the state services that we all need and expect, Kaua`i County has managed to somehow avoid similar slash-and-burn cuts in services despite the 10% across-the-board [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:06am EST

  • HANGIN’ LOOSE

    HANGIN’ LOOSE: We have the utmost respect for the journalistic skills of our friend Joan Conrow but today we’ve gotta take exception and question the source of her attack on another friend, Juan Wilson’s and his recent article on Larsen’s beach.

    Quoting Wilson, Conrow wrote

    I [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:26am EST

  • PAVLOV’S PRIDE:

    PAVLOV’S PRIDE: Our post on Monday regarding the infuriating way Councilperson Jay Furfaro protects the Minotaur’s labyrinth though the use of pompous paternalism and obfuscation- preferring to see it as stewardship- drew a few emails affirming that the observation is not ours alone with one lamenting the fact that, [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:06am EST

  • IN SEARCH OF A PACK

    IN SEARCH OF A PACK: Yesterday’s brief mention of Councilperson Jay Furfaro’s vague 2010 political aspirations for higher office- as reported by Joan Conrow in last week’s “Kauai People”- are nonetheless clearer then those of once and current blogger, former Councilperson Mel Rapozo.

    Knowing [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:07pm EST

  • BIG DOG ASPIRATIONS

    BIG DOG ASPIRATIONS: In this week’s “Kaua`i People”- the mid-week advertising newspaper that pops up in your mailbox every Wednesday- our friend Joan Conrow’s profile of Councilperson Jay Furfaro begins by saying “Jay Furfaro is a man with many roles, but steward is the one he considers [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 10:45am EST

  • (PNN) FORMER CA TAGUPA’S “BLUNDER” TO COST COUNTY OVER 6K:

    FORMER CA TAGUPA’S “BLUNDER” TO COST COUNTY OVER 6K:

    (PNN) It’s the perennial question regarding governmental SNAFUs, especially on Kaua`i, one taken advantage of by many a county worker- was it malfeasance, malpractice or simply incompetence?

    Case in point an item on today’s council agenda:

    C [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:08am EST

  • PUPPY LOVE

    PUPPY LOVE: You can’t pick up a newspaper, watch the local TV news- or what passes for “Hawai`i News, Now”- or for that matter hold a conversation these days without someone bemoaning how our keiki are suffering by “missing out” on 17 instructional school days.

    Everyone that is [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 12:13pm EST

  • (PNN) HIGH COURT DENIES OIP APPEAL OF “ES-177” CASE

    HIGH COURT DENIES OIP APPEAL OF “ES-177” CASE:

    (PNN) -- In a stunning rebuke to the authority and power of the Office Of Information Practices (OIP) the Hawai`i State Supreme Court, without comment, upheld the intermediate court of appeals denial of OIP’s ordered release of the infamous minutes of [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 11:44am EDT

  • MAYBE IF OUR DOGS NEEDED IT

    MAYBE IF OUR DOGS NEEDED IT: It’s nice to see that the local newspaper is putting their time-money where their print-mouth is in pushing the administration to promptly comment on the current Green Harvest helicopter operations after the coconut wireless brought the annoying and absurd disturbance to their attention [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:02pm EDT

  • THE ROAD MORE TRAVELED

    THE ROAD MORE TRAVELED: The pilikila over the Larson’s Beach access has finally gotten some attention after a fine article in the Hawai`i Independent by Joan Conrow detailed how once again the public is about to lose a path that has been historically ours forever because of some slight [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:00pm EDT

  • ‘TWERN’T SHE

    ‘TWERN’T SHE: Carol Ann Davis wants to make one thing perfectly clear- she was not the one who provided Walter Lewis with a nine page opinion “letter” from Deputy County Attorney Mauna Kea Trask to the charter review commission (CRC) regarding the county manager proposal.

    “I’d swear on a [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:58pm EDT

  • CARVING OUT A THIRD WAY

    CARVING OUT A THIRD WAY: Something subversive clicked this morning when we read the headline in the Honolulu Advertiser saying “Burial council won't sign rail pact”.

    Seems that:

    (t)he Oahu Island Burial Council has decided not to join other parties ... in signing an agreement on mitigating' [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:01pm EDT

  • A TALE OF TWO WALTERS

    A TALE OF TWO WALTERS: Every fortnight readers of the local newspaper are presented with the words of their only regular columnist, Walter Lewis from Princeville.

    And this week, as usual, it’s chock full of disingenuity and in fact complete falsifications.

    The problem is that we usually– though [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 12:01pm EDT

  • GETTIN’ JUICED TO IT

    GETTIN’ JUICED TO IT: It’s hard to know what to make of the announcement today that “our Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative will buy electricity by April 2012 from a new power plant that burns both sugar cane and wood” according to Diana Leone’s Honolulu Advertiser front page report today- [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:06pm EDT

  • A THIRD OF A NINTH

    A THIRD OF A NINTH: Today the United States Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit will be hearing the case of KC Lum v. Kauai County Council, former Kauai` Police Department Chief Lum’s appeal of the dismissal of his civil rights case against the county council and other [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 12:07pm EDT

  • SAME OLD TAIL

    SAME OLD TAIL: We’re still in limited typing mode and working on another story so today here’s a preview of Horace Stoessel’s latest letter to the editor dissecting the latest machinations of the Kaua`i Board of Ethics (BOE)- words with which we most stridently agree.


    FROM AWKWARD TO [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 12:19pm EDT

  • IF DOGS WALK FREE

    IF DOGS WALK FREE: Our all-too-slowly healing shoulder isn’t cooperating in putting together a longish piece on the pilikila at Larson’s Beach- actually Ka`aka`aniu (rolling coconut) reef-. a place famous for it’s limu kohu.

    So we were reading Joan Conrow’s description of her trip from Nihoku to Mokolea [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 12:40pm EDT

  • THE CHEESE DEMANDS A LOAN

    THE CHEESE DEMANDS A LOAN: If you thought the two bills still bottled-up in Councilperson Jay Furfaro’s Kaua`i County Council Planning Committee- the “farm workers” and “vacation rentals on ag land” measures- were not just stomach turning but illegal, you ain’t seen nothin' yet.

    The giveaway to residential non' [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 12:30pm EDT

  • SUCKLING ON THE TEAT OF ABSURDITY

    SUCKLING ON THE TEAT OF ABSURDITY: In an age when medical cannabis has become an accepted treatment for many maladies and the age when Reefer Madness is an old joke you’ve got to wonder what kind of idiots are populating the hall of the National Institutes of Health.

    According [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 12:09pm EDT

  • SAME OLD TRICKS

    SAME OLD TRICKS: When veteran Arizona reporter Anthony Sommer took the job of Honolulu Star Bulletin Kaua`i Bureau Chief- a position that has long since disappeared along with the paper’s coverage of Kaua`i- although he continued to attend Kaua`i County Council meetings, the fairly in-depth weekly coverage he had provided [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:56am EDT

  • (PNN) SEAL KILLER WORKED FOR PFLUEGER; JOB GAVE ACCESS TO CRIME SCENE

    SEAL KILLER WORKED FOR PFLUEGER; JOB GAVE ACCESS TO CRIME SCENE

    (PNN) -- Charles Vidinha, who was convicted last Friday of killing a pregnant monk seal May 21 at Pila'a Beach is or was an employee of Jimmy Pflueger and only had access to the area from which he' [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 12:01pm EDT

  • GRRRRRR

    GRRRRRR: OK- it’s go time.

    Through all this “Blood Alley” crap, including today’s announcement of a ludicrous and possibly more treacherous diminution of the speed limit from 50 to 40 on the stretch of road between Hanama`ulu and Wailua, no one- not the cops, not the state DOT, [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 12:43pm EDT

  • DOIN’ THE MATH

    DOIN’ THE MATH: We’ve already got our grandson pouncing on one of our “favorite” TV news “teaser” lines- that their next story will reveal “facts” that “may or may not” be true. It’s a close second in entertainment value to much used corollary “ Is it true? The answer might [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 12:17pm EDT

  • BARKING IN THE DARK

    BARKING IN THE DARK: Joan Conrow’s recent interview with Kaua`i Police Department (KPD) Chief Darryl Perry in the Hawai`i Independent begins with Perry’s depiction of what he found when he took office saying:

    When Police Chief Darryl Perry started work on Kauai two years ago, he was startled [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:17pm EDT

  • THUNK

    THUNK: Our drive to Waimea yesterday was spent behind a raw sugar delivery truck on its way back from a Nawiliwili drop-off, spewing noxious diesel exhaust until it turned off into one of the soon to be abandoned cane fields of Gay and Robinson.

    As we drove through [...]
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    Posted: September 25, 2009, 12:52pm EDT

  • UNCHAINED MELODY OR SAME OLD TUNE?

    UNCHAINED MELODY OR SAME OLD TUNE?: The old saw regarding lies, damnable lies and statistics got a workout today as the Honolulu Star- Bulletin reported that Hawaii’s tax burden ranks 24th in the US.

    That’s the statistic.

    As for the lie - a classic “big” one that, [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 12:03pm EDT

  • FIRST BITE

    FIRST BITE: “Only you” as our editor often says “could spend a ‘rousingly entertaining’ morning poring over documents” as we did today, in this case some from the Office of Information Practices (OIP) web site.

    But a phone call last night from a similarly inclined individual hipped us [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 12:06pm EDT

  • OH WHAT SMALL TEETH YOU HAVE GRANDMAMA:

    OH WHAT SMALL TEETH YOU HAVE GRANDMAMA: We had our say in Saturday’s local newspaper when reporter Michael Levine asked us what we thought of the appointment of long time Deputy County Clerk Ernie Pasion to the newly created position of county auditor.

    As Levine wrote:

    (S)ome [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 12:10pm EDT

  • SUNDAY EXTRA- CAN’T YOU SHUT THAT DOG UP?

    CAN’T YOU SHUT THAT DOG UP?: Police Commissioner Tom Iannucci’s letter to the editor in Sunday’s local paper shows once again why many believe he is a disgrace to KPD and the commission.

    As we’ve seen over and over in his writings and statements, excuses and attacks [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 8:28am EDT

  • IT’S NOT A TURD- IT’S OUR LIVELIHOOD

    IT’S NOT A TURD- IT’S OUR LIVELIHOOD: It’s been nothing short of nauseating to watch the way the western-settler, fat-cat, gentlemen-farmers have screwed any chance of an agriculturally successful future and thus rural island culture for the island by spewing their sense of false entitlement in front of the council [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 12:36pm EDT

  • LIFE’S A BEACH... WITHOUT A BIKE PATH

    LIFE’S A BEACH... WITHOUT A BIKE PATH: Juan Wilson at Island Breath has posted what appears to the genuine, long-awaited but as yet unreleased OHA testimony opposing plans to put the bike path on Wailua Beach- a potential game changer according to many.

    It says in part:

    [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 3:57pm EDT

  • ROOTING OUT THE RUBBISH

    ROOTING OUT THE RUBBISH: Although the article in today’s local paper announcing that Mayor Bernard Carvalho will be supporting- and presumably signing- the bill banning plastic grocery bags set for council approval next Wednesday, it doesn’t mention what anyone following the bill knows... that this is a major flip [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 5:13pm EDT

  • DOGGIE DADA

    DOGGIE DADA: Much has been written in the past two days about the “new” county attorney’s opinion regarding the county charter’s section 20.02(d) that prohibits any “officer of employee of the county (from) appear(ing) in behalf of private interests before any county board, commission or agency.”.

    Two [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 12:16pm EDT

  • BITING THE METER READER

    BITING THE METER READER: We normally try to scour all of the available resources regarding an issue before we open our fat trap but we must be missing something about the “rate hike” being requested by our Kaua`i Island Utility Co-op (KIUC).

    Now don’t get us wrong- this piece [...]
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    Posted: September 14, 2009, 12:14pm EDT

  • A DEAFER EAR

    A DEAFER EAR: A month ago today we detailed the latest in the sad story of KKCR, the so-called “community and supposedly non-commercial” radio station in Princeville and the completion of the takeover by the LA music industry that began in the mid 90’s- as PNN detailed in a [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 12:42pm EDT

  • ABSURDLY GOOD

    ABSURDLY GOOD: Last week we got an email from a friend who we greatly admire and respect who does many good things for the community- including undertaking a leadership role in a non profit endeavor that works on environmental projects.

    Sometimes this person represents the group before the council [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 12:07pm EDT
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