Tiffany Edwards Hunt Writing for Stephens Media Again

(IN NO SHAPE OR WAY IS THIS A DIG AT TIFFANY… It’s a dig at Stephens Media) I’m rather suprised to see Tiffany Edwards Hunt name in todays Big Island Weekly as the “reporter” for this Pohoiki story. :shock: It was just 8 days ago Edwards wrote on her blog entitled:  Plenty of Food, Wine [...]

State Sells $125.2 Million in Highway Revenue Bonds

Governor Linda Lingle announced today that the State successfully completed its sale of $125.2 million of Highway Revenue Bonds to fund various highway capital improvement projects throughout the State… …“Completion of the $125.2 million Highways Revenue Bond sale today, along with the sale of $227.8 million in general obligation bonds earlier this month, will provide [...]

Lingle on Capital Improvement Projects… The Video

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Another Puna Robbery

The Hawaii Police Department is investigating a reported attempted robbery Tuesday (December 16) in the Puna District. On Wednesday (December 17), a 25-year-old Puna man reported to South Hilo police that he had been parked at the post office boxes near the top of Paradise Drive in Hawaiian Paradise Park when two males accosted him [...]

Sick on the Superferry: Engineering Student Describes His Superferry Ride

I got a kick out of reading the following blog posting by some engineering student entitled:  The Superferry Three of us Would Not Call It Super … The Alakai just has a draft of 12ft.  That is very little. Other ferries which I traveled with on the Baltic see have a draft between 20 and [...]

Opening Up My Blog to Anonymous Comments

Someone complained that you had to type in an email address to make a comment on my blog. I can understand why some people would want to comment anonymously. I’m going to remove the requirement that one has to enter an email  so that people who wish to comment anonymously still can.

Hilo Hatties Fires 31… 120 Employees Out of Work in Next Few Weeks

Everyone new Hilo Hatties was in trouble with bankruptcy… I’m not sure how many people expected this! Happy Holidays: “More than 120 Hawaii workers will lose the jobs over the next several weeks as two companies close and a third tries to stay in business…” More Here

Bus Service to Expand

…Mass Transit Director Tom Brown said Tuesday his agency would use its cut for two new 33-passenger buses — which cost $150,000 apiece — and to increase the number of bus runs islandwide, particularly in Ka’u, Puna and Kona… More Here

Today’s KO

Mayors Assistant Still Writing For the Advertiser? Reflection on Big Island Murder Case

I just noticed this article in today’s Honolulu Advertiser written by Mayor Kenoi’s current East Hawaii Executive Assistant and former Advertiser reporter, Kevin Dayton. I’m not sure if the Advertiser is just reprinting it or if this was recently written.  I guess he could have also written it a while back and it’s only taken [...]

Superplume Beneath Hawaii May Have Shaped the Earth

I love the word… Superplume! …The two superplumes, one beneath Hawaii and the other beneath Africa, have likely existed for at least 200 million years, explained Wendy Panero, assistant professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. The giant plumes — or “superpiles” as Panero calls them — rise from the bottom of Earth’s mantle, [...]

Local Media Picks Up on PGV Admission… Why Weren’t We Told About This 3 Years Ago?

Yesterday, Andrew Cooper sent me an email telling me to check out his recent blog about PGV Drills Into Magma.  I posted a small blip about it here. The story has taken off… but why has it taken 3 years to do so? Peter Sur from the Hawaii Tribune followed up today here: “…Plant manager [...]

TAZO

My wife has been drinking Tazo Chai Tea for a few years now.  I really didn’t like the taste of it when I first tried . This past weekend as I was sick… I started drinking it in hopes that my stomach bug would get better. It really helped a lot… and now I find [...]

Do You Twitter?

Twitter seems to be taking over the world right now in the way people communicate online. I’ve had several people ask me what my Twitter account is automatically assuming that I had one. I did register for an account about a year ago.  The thing is… I’m a “Haole” in a Potagee body.  The charachter [...]

Why Are You Against The Military… I’m NOT!

I often get asked this question and just recently was asked something similar: “Why are you so against the military”? I just felt the need to clarify something.  I’m not “Against” the Military. I’m really not “Against” many things at all. I am against some of the policies that Military Personnel must follow. I have [...]

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