Posted on May 23, 2009 by Damon
When I first heard that the Hawaii Tourism Authority was bringing in mainland bloggers to tour the islands, I was kind of irked that they didn’t even think about using bloggers here locally. Well it turns out I’m completely wrong and they will be teamed up with local bloggers from Oahu and a select group [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Blogs, Economy, Entertainment, Hawaii, Something New?, State Affairs, Technology, Tourism | Tagged: Aric S. Queen, Christine Lu, Jim Turner, Leah Lamb, Mark Tafoya, Neenz, Rick Calvert, Sheila Scarborough, Shira Lazar, So Much More Hawaii Tour | 10 Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
Using ground-based play features and a natural landscape, children are introduced to a variety of play settings and interactions suited for outdoor exploration.
Filed under: Announcements, Education, Hawaii, Kids, Technology, UH Hilo | Tagged: Hawaii Community College Early Childhood Education Children's Center | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
A 15-year-old Melbourne boy is Australia’s latest swine flu case but authorities say the outbreak here is “fairly mild” compared to overseas. As the number of Australian cases rose to 14, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd defended the government’s decision to upgrade the alert level to containment stage from delay. Passengers on a cruise ship berthed [...]
Filed under: Hawaii, Health, Kids, Tourism, Transportation | Tagged: Dawn Princess Cruise Ship, Hawaii, Melbourne, Swine Flu | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
Senator Daniel Inouye introduced legislation in the U.S. Congress to designate the Hawaii Capitol National Heritage Area for the Honolulu/Kapalama Ahupua’a, which covers Kaka’ako, Downtown, Nuuanu and Kapalama. The bill Senate # 359 was co-sponsored by Senator Daniel Akaka.
Filed under: Hawaiian, State Affairs | Tagged: Hawaii Capitol National Heritage Area, Senator Inouye | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
So now I get the following email from Goodenow telling me why something can’t be done. He sent me the PDF File that he talks about, but I can’t link it from my email right now for some reason. Mr. Tucker, Please see the attached Department of Human Resources. I’ve already been through this before, [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Community, County Council, Something New?, State Affairs, Technology, Television | Tagged: Kenneth Goodenow, Live Streaming County Council Meetings | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
Earlier I blogged how the County Clerk used the excuse of ADA requirements as to why the County is not Streaming the meetings live. Date: Friday, May 22, 2009, 9:59 AM Thanks for taking the time to think of this. Actually, we have looked at free-streaming. Corporation Counsel gave the go ahead, regarding advertising being [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Blogs, Community, County Council, Economy, Politics, State Affairs, Technology | Tagged: Hawaii County Council, Kenneth Goodenow, Live Streaming Meetings | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
I got the following email from Councilman Yoshimoto in reply to the same letter that I sent to Councilman Yagong that I blogged about earlier. This is Councilman Jon Yoshimoto’s response to Live Streaming: Thank you for your email. We are in the process of looking into having live streaming video of our council meetings [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Community, County Council, Economy, Technology, Television | Tagged: County Council, Dominic Yagong, Jon Yoshimoto, Kenneth Goodenow, Live Streaming of Meetings | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
I sent off a letter to the Council Members yesterday explaining who I was and that I basically thought we the public weren’t getting our money’s worth for what the council is paying to have their meetings shown on TV. This was in regards to the blog that I posted two days ago. I sent [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Community, County Council, Economy, Politics, Something New?, Technology, Television | Tagged: Hawaii County Council, Live Streaming, Na Leo Community Television | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
Media Release Hilo, HI—The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the proposed $1.2 billion Thirty Meter Telescope Project (TMT) will appear Saturday, May 23 in the Office of Environmental Quality Control’s (OEQC) Environmental Notice. The draft document details the environmental, community, economic, and cultural impacts of locating TMT on Maunakea. The purpose of the [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Big Island, Community, Environment, Hawaiian, TMT | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 22, 2009 by Damon
For those of you who know the scoops… you know the scoops on the Newspaper War that happened and is still pretty much happening on Oahu. For those of you don’t… well I’m not gonna go into it too much because it’s not really my story to tell. But needless to say long time reporter [...]
Filed under: Announcements, Blogs, Newspapers | Tagged: Burl Burlingame, Honolulu Agonizer, Star-Bulletin | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Damon
Just read an interesting law on these damn roosters. When crowing continues for ten continuous minutes or intermittently for 30 minutes, it is a violation of the animal nuisance law. Keeping more than two chickens in a residential area is also a violation of the animal nuisance law. If you are having a problem with [...]
Filed under: Agriculture, Comedy, Community, Environment, Hawaii, Legal, State Affairs, Sustainable Living | Tagged: Hawaii's Chicken Laws, Roosters Crowing | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Damon
Hawaii ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro came to Pahoa High & Intermediate this past Monday, May 18th. Part I: Sorry about the video quality. I didn’t shoot this video, only was made aware of it. Part II: Tomorrow, Friday May 23, Jake will be appearing on a few Hawaii morning shows. Here is the info: Lina [...]
Filed under: Education, Entertainment, Kids, Pahoa | Tagged: Jake Shimabukuro, Pahoa High & Intermediate | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Damon
I posted a couple other stories by the late Gabriel Manning before. One on his Survival Story of the 1946 Tsunami and the other was his Memories of the Hilo Massacre of 1938. I got an email the other day from his grandson, Lance, telling me that the newspapers weren’t interested in his grandfathers story [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Newspapers, Technology | Tagged: Gabriel Manning, Riding Around the Big Island | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Damon
Well the 2009 Big Island Film Festival has come and gone and of course of folks on the East side of the Island didn’t get a chance to go see it unless they drove clear across the island. I’ll try and do the next best thing. Here are the awards as well as the trailers [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Movies and Film | Tagged: Big Island Film Festival Awards | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Damon
I noticed a while back that Trish’s Trinket shop was closing up in the Pahoa Market Place and was told that Native Hawaiian Health Care System might be relocating there…I guess I was told wrong. Mighty Sushi is Opening soon in that exact location.
Filed under: Announcements, Food & Drink, Hawaiian, Pahoa, Puna, Rumors | Tagged: Mighty Sushi, Pahoa Market Place, Places to Eat in Pahoa | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Damon
You better bet Na Leo ‘O Hawaii should be coming up with money every year to pitch in to our council meetings. Na Leo ‘O Hawaii has come up with $75,000 so the Hawaii County Council can continue to air its meetings on public access cable TV channel 52 in Hilo and Kona. For them [...]
Filed under: County Council, Politics, Technology, Television | Tagged: Hawaii County Council, Na Leo Community Television, PEG Television | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Damon
…Evidence from Hawaii and Iceland hints that the planet’s core may be dispatching simultaneous plumes of magma towards the surface every 15 million years or so. If the hypothesis is true, it would revolutionize our ideas of what’s happening far below our feet. Independent scientists contacted by New Scientist were split, with some scornful and [...]
Filed under: Big Island, Environment, Hawaii, Something New? | Tagged: Hawaii Volcano, Magma Pulsing | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Damon
Posted on May 20, 2009 by Damon
For those of you who have been lucky enough to meet Devany Vickery-Davidson, you know she loves to cook. I’ve been following her blog My Hawaiian Home since she started it and I’ve been enjoying salivating at the pictures of her food. Recently she is one of 200 Bread Bakers world wide to taking part [...]
Filed under: Blogs, Food & Drink, Hilo | Tagged: Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge, Devany Vickery-Davidson | Leave a Comment »
