Hawaii Blogger

Remember Roseanne Roseannadanna? She said, “If it’s not one thing, it’s always something.” The latest something is a report about a fire in Puna at Ahalanui Beach Park. A Puna porta potty fire. The beach park is served by portable rest rooms and someone appears to have started a fire. The Big Island police initiated … Read More »

Do we live in paradise? Or, Dodge City, KS, circa 1883? Dodge City epitomized the wild west of the 19th century, a city ablaze with cattle rustlers, gunfighters, the Long Branch Saloon and China Doll brothel. To hear former Governor Ben Cayetano’s mayoral campaign tell it, Honolulu has become like Dodge City with drive by … Read More »

There’s lies, damned lies, and statistics. Someone calculated that Hawaii drivers lose over $1,527 a year because of unsafe roads, bad pavement, and congested streets and highways. I want the state to pay me back. A guest contributor to Hawaii Reporter tossed out a couple of dozen paragraphs packed with various and sundry statistics about … Read More »

Another day, another earthquake in Japan, another mini-tsunami, and a fire in a Waikiki hotel This one was a late night affair at the Ocean House Restaurant in Waikiki’s Outrigger Reef Hotel. A fire in a restaurant isn’t news. Evacuating a few hundred guests from a hotel late at night is news. At least, it … Read More »

The U.S. government is short on money, long on bills, and in a fund raising mood. The latest news says the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) is soliciting money from Hawaii residents. How is the FBI doing that? You’d think it would be easy to send a couple of men in black to Kahala or … Read More »

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 »