When I did a Google search to find out more about Joseph L. Wildman, appointed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie to be a Maui Circuit Court judge, the first two items of interest were that Wildman came out of the law firm of Rep. Gil-Keith Agaran, the House Judiciary chairman, and donated $1,610 to Abercrombie’s campaign [...]
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Politics and judges; Hanabusa’s housing
March 22, 2011Monkey business gets a new look
February 11, 2011The Atomic Monkey is back. The website by former city IT employee and ad man Keith Rollman made news during last year’s governor’s race when the Mufi Hannemann campaign had to disown it for its over-the-top ridicule of Neil Abercrombie and ask Rollman to take it down. Now he’s relaunched it as a general-interest humor [...]
With God on our side (or not)
January 13, 2011I didn’t intend my post the other day about the Big Island Senate appointment to focus on religion. I truly thought the county Democrats did a good job of making their nominations in an open and accessible manner and wanted to draw attention to it. That’s why I put the rather mild comment about the [...]
Welcome openness in Big Isle Senate picks
January 11, 2011Give Big Island Democrats credit for transparency in the process to replace Sen. Russell Kokubun, who represented Hilo, Puna and Ka‘u before resigning to join the Abercrombie administration as agriculture director. The party released the names of eight candidates who asked to be considered: state Rep. Faye Hanohano, former County Council Chairman Gary Safarik, health [...]
Let’s lower our voices for Christina
January 10, 2011The most heartbreaking image for me in the shooting attack that seriously wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others is this photo the family circulated of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, the youngest of the six who were killed. This child who was born on 9/11 loved her country and cherished our peaceful political [...]
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