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• Now seven Hawaii female judges have announced early retirement. Again, we ask, Why?

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  by Larry Geller Yesterday we asked, If one female judge in Hawaii were retiring, it would hardly be worth a comment. If two announce early retirement, it’s a bit of a concern. When three announce retirement, it’s "What’s going on here???" On Wednesday, the seventh female judge, Karen Radius, whose [...]

  Posted: December 24, 2009, 10:40pm EST
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• Superferry II—state EIS for interisland power cable omits costs, impacts, and is illegally segmented

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  by Larry Geller In an op-ed in Thursday’s Honolulu Advertiser, Undersea cable could cost millions more (12/24/2009), Henry Curtis points out that not only has the state’s environmental impact statement been illegally segmented, but that prior press coverage has omitted part of the cost and all of the blight. Remember [...]

  Posted: December 24, 2009, 9:00pm EST
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• Hawaii’s high-tech darling, Hoku Scientific, now a Chinese-owned company

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  by Larry Geller Well, the jobs were being created in Idaho anyway. This company has been the high-tech media darling as long as I can remember. Today, the Advertiser breaking news reports that it is a Hawaii company no more. It is now 60% owned by Tianwei New Energy Holdings [...]

  Posted: December 23, 2009, 9:45am EST
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• Hawaii female judges fleeing into retirement? Why?

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  by Larry Geller If one female judge in Hawaii were retiring, it would hardly be worth a comment. If two announce retirement, a bit of a concern. When three announce retirement, it’s “What’s going on here???” Well, it’s not three, it’s six already. Shouldn’t we be asking “HEY—WHAT’S GOING ON [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 5:20am EST
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• Central Pacific Bank misses two required dividends, will Inouye step in again?

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  by Larry Geller Sen. Daniel Inouye got dinged in the press after reports that an inquiry placed by his office resulted in an unusual bailout of Central Pacific Bank. Sen. Inouye is one of the founders of CPB and an investor (see snip below). A Washington Post story now reports [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 2:13am EST
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• Lee Cataluna on DOH inadequate response to public health problem (yes, rats)

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  by Larry Geller I have only this one little blog (and thank you for reading it). Most everyone, though, tunes in to Lee Cataluna’s column. This morning she picks up Department of Health inaction in Instead of guidelines and tips, try traps. I won’t even snip from it. Go read. [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 1:35am EST
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• Department of Health refuses to inspect Chinatown markets—be warned

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  by Larry Geller”DOH said there are no immediate plans to inspect other Chinatown markets for rats or other pests.” It seems the rat video may result in better food-handling practices at Kekaulike Market. But not because the Department of Health was doing their job—because they were caught not doing their [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 4:52am EST
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• Open source voting system development is alive and well

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  by Larry Geller This is fascinating. I’m playing with a prototype open source voting system, the SHARP voting machine. Yup, source code is available to look at or modify. It runs on any of my home computers. It can run on an old computer, or one without a hard disk. [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 5:55pm EST
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• Council on Revenues should make tax increase estimate

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  by Larry Geller Well, somebody should estimate how much revenue could be raised through various options including raising certain taxes. Hawaii is being devastated by administration budget cuts that wipe out essential services, yet neither our daily papers nor our state administration are willing to suggest that raising revenues might [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 1:36pm EST
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• School furloughs, rats, election budget cuts make the New York Times

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  by Larry Geller Hawaii is in the national news, but it’s not a pretty picture. An AP story by Mark Niesse is in the Sunday edition. The web version is here. That extra coverage should push the rat video to over 25,000 views overnight. The story lets the nation know [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 11:13am EST
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• Be the first on your block to control the world—hack a drone

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  by Larry Geller That insurgents have figured out how to download video feeds from US drones does not surprise me. Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones (WSJ, 12/17/2009) describes how cheap software was used to intercept video taken by US Predator drones. The video was found on captured laptops. The video data [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 3:06pm EST
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• Rail will increase, not decrease, traffic in Honolulu, Mr. Caldwell

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  by Larry Geller An argument is raging over whether Mufi’s train is “green” or will reduce the number of cars on the roads. City Managing Director Kirk Caldwell jumps into the fray and asserts otherwise, but he doesn’t have me convinced. Actually, I think rail will increase the number of [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 2:37pm EST
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• NY Times series on toxic water gives Hawaii good grades but still, there’s arsenic in Waipahu-Ewa-Waianae report

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  by Larry Geller One thing that is very well tested in Hawaii is drinking water. And the numbers, as assembled in a New York Times database accompanying their series, Toxic Waters, show that Hawaii is in very good shape compared to some parts of the country. The database is handy. [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:22pm EST
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• Advertiser reports action in Chinatown rat situation

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  by Larry Geller This sounds like a very positive response—provided vendor participation can somehow be made mandatory. The Advertiser breaking news reports Chinese chamber, health department create task force to tackle rat problem. "We need to take the time to re-educate Chinatown's merchants of the sanitary standards the state has" [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 9:26am EST
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• Honolulu Chinatown merchants cover up windows, hide rats from public

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  by Larry Geller KITV and Keoki Kerr have stuck to the rat problem tenaciously. Last night they reported seeing fewer rats in Kekaulike Market, and that there will be classes, with translations into Chinese and Vietnamese, for the tenant vendors of that market. They also report that the Department of [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:36am EST
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• Legislators ask Governor to release money immediately to end Furlough Fridays

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  by Larry Geller A letter written by Rep. Karl Rhoads to Governor Linda Lingle asking her to immediately release the funds to end Furlough Fridays has earned the signatures of one senator and five other House members so far: Sen. Carol Fukunaga, Reps. Joe Bertram, Gil Keith-Agaran, Sylvia Luke, Mark [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:59am EST
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• Hawaii should watch Copenhagen

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  by Larry Geller Since Hawaii has been selected to host the APEC Summit in 2011, we might begin to pay attention to how these international conferences are held. Copenhagen is different, of course, in importance, in scale, and in the international attention it is drawing, but nevertheless should be an [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:57am EST
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• For the record, the leaked Copenhagen agreement

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  by Larry Geller This is last week’s hot news, but in case you have not seen it, here are links to the leaked “Danish Text” and a summary from The Guardian (12/8/2009). The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:01pm EST
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• Humongous petition aims to save Copenhagen summit

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  by Larry Geller Avaaz.org is shooting for the world’s largest petition, to be delivered to world leaders arriving in Copenhagen starting tomorrow. Here’s the sound bite on it: Copenhagen's last-ditch summit to stop catastrophic global warming is failing; only massive public pressure can save it. Currently, their website shows over [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:31pm EST
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• One-shot traffic sting demonstrates need for enforcement of traffic laws

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  by Larry Geller This from Honolulu Advertiser’s breaking news on the web: The "solo-bike" officers pulled over the offending drivers and handed out 45 tickets for failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian, 15 for drivers caught using cell phones, 14 for failing to buckle up, 12 [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• “Friends, Beltwayans, countrymen: I come to bury health care”

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  by Larry Geller Another parody today. This one is about Joe Lieberman and is both clever and scary: Friends, Beltwayans, countrymen: I come to bury health care, not to praise it. The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. So let it [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 7:43am EST
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• The Onion inadvertently parodies Honolulu’s potential plague

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  by Larry Geller According to recently discovered journals, the 14th century's rat-feces-smeared men of science were at a total loss to explain how the Black Death was able to spread so quickly across Europe. Thus begins what could be a parody of the Hawaii Department of Health reaction to the [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:13am EST
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• Special election in jeopardy due to governor’s cut of elections budget by 94%

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  by Larry Geller Both the Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin carried stories this morning questioning the state’s readiness to hold a special election to fill the seat of Representative Neil Abercrombie after he steps down. While both noted that the elections office is strapped for funds, neither story attributed the shortfall [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 1:24am EST
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• Rats control Chinatown at night while the Department of Health does nothing

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  by Larry Geller As seen on TV. Those rats you may have seen on TV news in Hawaii are still there. Concerned that our state Department of Health was doing little if anything to control the Chinatown rat population, I asked the FDA if the feds had any jurisdiction. My [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:55am EST
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• Tamiflu effectiveness questioned

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  by Larry Geller Contrast these two stories: The first sounds the alarm that a strain of swine flu may be emerging that can’t be cured by Tamiflu: Drug-resistant swine flu cluster on Vietnam train (AP, 12/9/2009) The second demonstrates that Tamiflu is not proven effective in treating flu: The Truth [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:06pm EST
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• KHON Reporter Andrew Pereira traces polluted ogo from Ala Moana canal to Chinatown market

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  by Larry Geller Ugh. I thought the rat/Chinatown thing was winding down. Tonight KHON News reporter Andrew Pereira has added to Chinatown’s disgrace by following an ogo picker and his harvest from a filthy canal to a Chinatown shop in Maunakea Marketplace where a vendor purchased a bag of the [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:15pm EST
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• Johan Galtung faults Nobel Peace Committee for Obama’s situation

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  by Larry Geller [Johan Galtung founded the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, was visiting professor at UH Manoa, and is director of the international Transcend network. He is considered to be the father of peace research.] In a possible attempt to avoid questions about the Afghan war, the White House [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:11pm EST
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• Does interisland power cable make economic sense for cash-strapped Hawaii?

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  by Larry Geller Does the proposed inter-island power cable make economic sense for Hawaii? (see: Pacific Business News, 9 undersea routes mapped for power grid, 12/9/2009) CNN reported today that General Electric just signed a contract to build what will be the world’s largest wind farm in California. The wind [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 4:16pm EST
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• Who owns Chinatown’s markets?

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  by Larry Geller I turns out that the owner of the Kekaulike Market is the City and County of Honolulu. So the rats in the video are the city’s problem. But that’s only one of several large indoor markets surrounding Kekaulike Street, roughly the center of Honolulu’s Chinatown shopping area. [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:31am EST
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• Rats, they’re still around

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  by Larry Geller I visited the Kekaulike Market this evening along with KITV. They stayed on after dark and of course verified that the rats are still there. The report should be on their web page tomorrow. They revealed on their 10 p.m. news, as I learned earlier, that the [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 7:06pm EST
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