Singer out to save strawberry guava
Strawberry Guava Opihikao resident Syd Singer has had thoughtful and provocative insights on coqui frog eradication in the past and now he’s weighing in against the DOA’s plan to introduce new insects to Hawaii to stop the spread of strawberry guava trees.
Five County Council races to watch
Interesting Hawaii County Council races developing in at least five districts could have a big impact on the nine-member panel next year.
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Incinerator plan dead by a vote
The Fifth District's Emily Naeole held her ground against the waste-to-energy incinerator Wednesday while Councilman J Yoshimoto turned in favor of continuing to study the project. But it wasn't enough to change the result and the Wheelabrator project went down with a thud at the Council Council meeting.
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NOAA site maps SO2 activity
Steve Tallman just put this great link in a comment to an earlier post so you may not see it. It's a NOAA site that maps SO2 concentrations and flows of the gas from Kilauea Volcano across Hawaii and the Pacific on a daily basis. The site also has daily SO2 emissions from volcanoes around the world.
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OIP answers 12-year old request
In 1996 I asked the state Office of Information Practices for an opinion of the Police Department’s seemingly – at least to me at the time -- arbitrary practice of withholding the names of fatal accident and crime victims until the deceased’s next-of-kin are notified.
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Higa lawyers up to fight allegations
All weekend I wrestled with Stacy Higa’s shocking blog post from Friday and finally couldn’t bring myself to sound off again without asking a couple of questions first. Immediately I thought his comments were reprehensible and irresponsible, smearing the victim by innuendo and suggesting her sexual harassment complaints against him are frivolous and politically motivated. Higa wrote:
When people look into this Plaintiff’s history, there will be some startling information. I think that is the reason why the case was sealed. It is very common for people to sue the County for frivolous reasons. They are hoping for easy money during an election year. It won’t happen this time. This claim has no merit, and I am fighting to get this corrected.
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FCC to cap rural telecom fund
I came across this article last night, which sounds like bad news for any company counting on the USF to prop up its bottom line. That includes Hawaiian Tel, serving the majority of telecom consumers in the state, Nextel and Sandwich Isles Communication, which is building an expensive statewide fiber optic network linking Hawaiian Home Lands. SIC and Nextel already get a combined $44 million a year from the USF. Hawaiian Tel is currently applying for $30 over five years because it has no reserves to invest in its telecom network.
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Route 130 safety: Still 'no can'
A tip of the hat to Aaron Stene at Kona Blog for this link to an article on roundabouts at HeraldNet, in Everett, Washington.
I've seen state Department of Transportation activity in Puna Makai of late -- lots of vehicle counters and small crews of Honolulu-attired DOT people looking intently at traffic from Pahoa High School to the Keaau bottleneck. But I don't know if it's just for the long-term four-lane project or whether they have immediate improvements on their mind.
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Prof says not to question sentencing
UH-Hilo political science prof Rick Castberg wrote an interesting comment (scroll down) on my post noting the apparent lack of justice in two drug case sentences by Circuit Court Judge Glenn Hara.
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