When Hawaii enacted a fee tax on bottles and cans I was all for it. We pay a little more for bottles and cans, but get the money back by recycling. What we don’t recycle gets trashed or tossed, but the net effect is the poor help clean up the sidewalks and streets of expensive … Read More »

It’s been said that university professors must publish or perish, a phrase coined to describe the pressure in academia to publish work to sustain a career. The same philosophy is alive and well, not just in academia, but in college sports. The University of Hawaii said farewell to women’s basketball coach Dana Takahara-Dias. Perish or … Read More »

The Republican puppet master had a bad day. Not only did he manage to insult most women in the U.S., his insulting apology for his ill advised misdeed was merely another insult. The first sign of common sense in Hawaii’s reaction to Limbaugh’s over-the-top tirade came from radio station KPUA in Hilo, Hawaii. They were … Read More »

Another day, another water main break. This one closed off parts of Ward Avenue and Auahi Street. It’s as if the same people who manage the escalators at Ala Moana Center are also in charge of Honolulu’s aging water system. There’s always something broken somewhere. Who’s keeping score? Maybe it’s my imagination, but it seems … Read More »

Like the wind comes and goes, so do protestors. From the anti-war protests in the 1960s to the Occupy Wall Street movement, someone somewhere has a grudge, and public protesting is a cheap and easy way to air it. What’s with the Occupy Honolulu movement? Seriously. Are they protesting that life is unfair? From my … Read More »

The latest news says some of that tsunami debris from the big earthquake in Japan last year could end up on Hawaii’s beaches. Here’s how it works. Japan built a seawall to handle a 25-foot tsunami and an 8.5 magnitude earthquake. Mother Nature gave them a 30-foot tsunami and a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. The tsunami … Read More »