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World Wide Ed Pulpconnection Jerome’s ThoughtsMedia Release Dear Chairman Yoshimoto and Council Members: As required by the Hawaii County Charter, submitted with this message is the proposed operating budget for the County of Hawaii for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. This balanced budget includes estimated revenues and appropriations of $386,279,510, which is 4.2% less than the current year’s [...]
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HB1526 HD1 RELATING TO HEALTH. Obesity; Menu Education and Labeling Act Requires a franchise retail food establishment to include nutritional information about each standard menu item. (HB1526 HD1) Hawaii and Maine are jumping on the menu-labeling bandwagon and considering measures to require restaurants to post total calorie content on all menus, according to Fast Casual. Maine’s [...]
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If you haven’t stopped by Wayne “Big Dog” Joseph’s new blog lately, I suggest you stop by every once in a while. While he is still learning the ins and outs of blogging while posting a few of his older articles that were published in the Tribune Herald, I noticed a few times he adds [...]
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Well it looks like we have another legislator using youtube to get their message across. Marine water quality standards is the topic of choice this week for a new youtube series called “Legislatures on the Move With Rep. Thielen.“ HB834 HD1 RELATING TO WATER QUALITY STANDARDS. Water Quality Standards Amends state water quality standards for [...]
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Tonight was the Big Island Pre-Season Softball Tournament held at Pahoa High School. Hilo Defeated Ka’u 18-2 in the first game Hilo just barely squeaked by Pahoa 4-3 in the second game of the evening. The game was a close game and although games are normally 7 innings, this one came to an end at [...]
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DJ Orange aka Brooklyn Born Kanaka Maoli aka BKNYKANAKA aka RJ Mendoza (How many AKA’s can one person have?) blogged the following about the Tribunes article today about the Department of Public Works attempt to blackmail bloggers: RJ writes in “Don’t let them take away your voice“ …These bloggers are just everyday people with a [...]
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Aaron Stene over at The Kona Blog may have been the actual blogger that this whole thing might be stemming from. He tends to write a lot of letters to the Department of Public Works and had a fairly good relationship with the former director. Aaron blogs about a phone call Noelani Whittington attempted to [...]
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Larry Geller of Dissapeared News followed up an email I sent him with a blog of his own on this recent revelation that certain people were blackballed by the Department of PUBLIC Works: I’ve felt that the quality of traditional blogging on the Big Island is also impressive. May a thousand blogs bloom. And may [...]
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Kauai columnist/blogger Andy Parx has an interesting piece on the recent news of the Hawaii County Department of Public Works attempting to “Blackball” me and a couple other bloggers here on the Big Island. I sure hope there is no connect between the Post Office incident and this. “Take It From the Pros” writes Parx… [...]
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Mayor Kenoi has recommended Jan K. Yokohama to the Hawaii County Liquor Adjudication Board. Yokohama’s confirmation would take place this coming Monday, March 2nd at the Councilroom in the Ben Franklin Building at 10:30 am. More here
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Mayor Kenoi has recommended Donn S. Mende to the Hawaii County Police Commission. His confirmation would take place this coming Monday, March 2nd at the Councilroom in the Ben Franklin Building at 10:30 am. More here
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Yesterday, I blogged that the Honolulu County Department of Emergency Management was on Twitter. I have reason to believe, that once again… Twitter users have been duped into “following” a fake twitter account. :evil: A Twitter friend that would know whether they are on twitter or not, confirmed it with her friend that works there [...]
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I’ll file this under the holy cow file! Governor Linda Lingle has released $1,796,000 in design and construction funds for a new girls’ athletic locker room and shower facilities at McKinley High School… More Here I don’t even want to think about what a 1.8 Million dollar locker room would look like. Remember… it wasn’t [...]
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Media Release Hawai’i County Mayor Billy Kenoi has named Bobby Jean Leithead-Todd as the new director of the county Department of Planning effective March 1, 2009. The appointment fills one of the last key slots in the mayor’s cabinet. Kenoi was sworn in as mayor on Dec. 1. Leithead-Todd, 56, is an attorney with extensive [...]
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Ms. Whittington, thank you for insulting Aaron, Dave and Myself with your little knowledge of our backgrounds in today’s article written by Jason Armstrong in the Tribune Herald. “In crafting the policy, Whittington said she drew a distinction between bloggers with professional backgrounds and “citizen journalists” lacking that experience.” I guess you just assume some [...]
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Media Release County Department of Parks and Recreation facilities are being inspected for hazardous materials under a program initiated by the County in July 2008. The inspections were begun island-wide last year to develop a catalog of information about hazardous materials in department facilities to be used in conjunction with future construction projects. A second [...]
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In September I let my readers know about a proposed Ahi Farm that was going to be going up on the Kona Side. In today’s Tribune Herald, they have mentioned this proposed farm. Folks… Remember… NEWS is slow around here on the Big Island. It appears that the tribune even used the same picture that [...]
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I just caught the last 15 minutes of RJ Mendoza’s UH Hilo Radio show the “Da Orange Morning Show” DJ Orange read and commented on the article published today by the Hawaii Tribune Herald that mentioned blackballing me for a short period of time in November. You can check out UH Hilo’s student run radio [...]
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*update* The article itself is now available online at the Tribune Herald’s Website here. I mentioned briefly yesterday, that I thought that a “Gag Order” was placed on county employees from speaking to me and a few other bloggers. Today’s Hawaii Tribune Herald confirms that (I will link article as soon as it’s posted online) [...]
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Here are where the priorities lie for the Keaau Pahoa Advisory Group members that are working on the Highway 130 Project. METHODOLOGY: For this exercise, KPAG members were each given green, yellow, blue, and red dots (six of each color) and instructions on what each dot should represent in the exercise. Green dots would be [...]
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