Posted tagged ‘Abercrombie’

A ‘waha’ state of mind

September 6, 2011

My last “serious” column before going on vacation was about Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s tendency to orate over and over about the state’s problems without having new progress to report in solving them. A reader wrote in using a word to describe the governor that I haven’t heard since my days in Hilo High — “waha.” [...]

Abercrombie thinks outside the collar

January 21, 2011

We always knew that Gov. Neil Abercrombie would likely be full of more surprises than previous Hawai‘i governors, and he demonstrated it with his appointment of the Rev. Marc Alexander as his homelessness coordinator. Alexander, who is stepping down from the No. 2 position in the local Catholic church to take the job, has been [...]


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