I was surprised that local media didn’t press the governor’s office for the Democratic Party lists Gov. Neil Abercrombie chose from when they reported his appointments of Malama Solomon and Rep. Maile Shimabukuro to replace Sens. Dwight Takamine, who joined his Cabinet, and Colleen Hanabusa, who was elected to the U.S. House. Under rules passed [...]
Archive for December 2010
Who didn’t make Abercrombie’s senatorial cut?
December 28, 2010GOP legislators knocked off the air?
December 28, 2010Catching up on the mail bag, Republicans in the Legislature are up in arms about an apparent decision by Democratic legislators to shut down a room in the Capitol used by Olelo to film lawmakers talking about what’s going on with the Legislature. According to Rep. Cynthia Thielen, Democrats and Republicans alike took advantage of [...]
Where’s the justice for Peter Boy?
December 27, 2010I didn’t want to let the year end without directing attention to a couple of excellent stories in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald (here and here) about the unresolved disappearance on the Big Island nearly 13 years ago of 6-year-old Peter Kema Jr. Peter Boy’s father, Peter Kema Sr., told police that on a trip to O‘ahu [...]
Merry Christmas
December 22, 2010I’m taking a break for a few days. Have a great holiday, everybody, and see you next week.
New leadership at OHA
December 21, 2010The Office of Hawaiian Affairs begins a major transition today with Collette Machado expected to take over as chairwoman of the board of trustees from Haunani Apoliona after the board is sworn in for a new term. Apoliona was first elected an OHA trustee in 1996 and has been the 30-year-old agency’s longest-serving chair at [...]
Sanity finally prevails on ‘don’t ask’
December 20, 2010Now that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military has been repealed, we can reflect on the absurdity of a 17-year official national policy that was effectively to look the other way. All signs were that the federal courts were going to strike down this dubious policy if Congress didn’t act [...]
The night before the holiday we don’t mention
December 16, 2010I had a lovely time last night at my grandkids’ school Christmas show, which was actually called Winter Fest because you can’t say Christmas in public anymore without getting the PC police all up in your business. Talk about a contrast; one of my girls played an elephant and the other played a kolea (which [...]
Dirty districting
December 15, 2010I have a thing about political candidates running in districts where their residency is loose or worse. The purpose of district representation is to have legislators and council members who can truly speak for the needs of the people in the district because they are one of them and have as much stake in the [...]
R.I.P. Honolulu Symphony
December 14, 2010Seeing the Honolulu Symphony die a long and painful death after enriching the community for over 100 years has been one low points of these recessionary times. Not that the recession was entirely responsible for the symphony’s demise; it’s been on life support for years because of poor management and lack of support and survived [...]
Will legislators follow Abercrombie’s lead?
December 13, 2010Many in Hawai‘i assume that because Democrats control the governorship for the first time in eight years and have the biggest legislative majority in the nation, it’ll be smooth sailing and they’ll be able to pass anything they want. Don’t be so sure; it all depends if they can agree on what they want to [...]
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