Despite reports to the contrary, cheerleading is not a sport. Otherwise, Bill Clinton would be a professional athlete, right? There’s little doubt that cheerleaders have a place in American sports. Football and basketball teams have cheerleaders. Baseball does not. I wish they did. Maybe attendance at the ball park would go up if scantily clad … Read More »
Whatever happened to wind energy?
April 5, 2008
I saw a Hawaiian Electric commercial on television last week which said something to the effect that ‘we need to reduce our need for imported oil’ in Hawaii. Unless I’m mistaken, all the oil we use in our refineries in Hawaii is imported, and barring a huge deposit of oil found somewhere in the Hawaiian archipelago, … Read More »
The beer that tastes like history
March 24, 2008
As Hawaii’s population ages, our desire to relive bits and pieces of days gone by seems to increase. Welcome back, Primo beer. Starting today, Honolulu retailers will get their first bottled taste of one of Hawaii’s best known, and sometimes loved, local beers. The draft Primo has been available at some local restaurants since December. … Read More »
What can you do with that new degree?
March 16, 2008
There are fewer college degree classifications than there are job classifications. For example, when a graduating college student gets a degree in, say, Library Sciences, where are they expected to find a job? At a library, right? A degree in marketing has many different job options, ranging from sales to advertising to public relations. A … Read More »
It’s official: tourists are lousy neighbors
March 3, 2008
Talk about biting the hand that feeds us. Associated Press writer Sudhin Thanawala found that tourists in Hawaii make lousy neighbors. Tourism is Hawaii’s biggest industry. That and Dan Inouye and the military industrial complex that resides here. Oh, and state government. But tourism ranks up there among the Top 5, for sure. Sudhin did … Read More »
What’s in your budget?
February 29, 2008
Do you have a household budget? Do you manage a budget where you work? Either way, or both, it’s not always an easy task and it becomes more complicated when there is a larger number of people, or more money, or both, are involved. Mayor Mufi Hannemann submitted Honolulu’s 2009 budget to the City Council. … Read More »
