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06 Sep 06

Ban on domestic shipping by foreign vessels needs critical scrutiny

  • One of Ed Case's campaign issues gains some traction. Senator Akaka has picked up $52000 in campaign contributinos from Matson and the ILA since 1989. - billso on 2006-09-06
  • Ban on domestic shipping by foreign vessels needs critical scrutiny
25 Aug 06

Honolulu receives 2 more hybrod buses

  • The city now operates 40 hybrid buses. The newest model can actually climb hills, unlike previous versions that were restricted to low-lying routes. - billso on 2006-08-25


  • The buses are also "smart," with computers controlling engines, the destination signs, the fare box and radios, Morton said. "And through (the global positioning system) in our buses, the dispatchers and our buses themselves know exactly where they are. These buses announce the next stop automatically."


    He said the hybrid technology will allow the city to save at least 20 percent of the 7 million gallons of fuel the buses use per year.

Djou told to cooperate on Honolulu transit

  • Charles Djou seems more concerned with his potential as a mayoral candidate than with solving Honolulu's crushing traffic problems. - billso on 2006-08-25


  • Mayor Mufi Hannemann and U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie called on Councilman Charles Djou yesterday to move on and not be an obstacle to bringing mass transit to Honolulu.


    "It's pau already. Let's move forward," the mayor said.

24 Aug 06

Believe it: Deadball era's not dead yet - Yahoo! News

  • Jim Bouton's Vintage Base Ball League uses 19th century rules and a single ball. - billso on 2006-08-24
  • t will be six balls for a walk, and a foul ball won't count as a strike — unless it's caught, in which case the batter will be out. A foul ball caught on a bounce counts for an out, and a hit batter is only a ball, with no base awarded.
22 Aug 06

Parents must help police stop driving teens

  • Hawaii teens are involved in 15 percent of fatal car accidents, while comprising only 6 percent of licensed drivers in the state. Parents need to set and enforce rules. - billso on 2006-08-22


  • GRADUATED driving requirements enacted by the Legislature last year were supposed to reduce traffic accidents such as the one that took the lives of two teenagers along the North Shore early Saturday, but it cannot be expected to eliminate them. Law enforcement, parents and schools must join in making the restrictions work, despite teenage peer pressure.

20 Aug 06

Hawaii gamblers cash out

  • The state of Hawaii has no office for helping gamblers, because gambling is illegal. - billso on 2006-08-20

  • HAWAII'S LOVE of gambling can also be witnessed in Las Vegas, which is the top destination for islanders and sometimes referred to as the "ninth Hawaiian island."
17 Aug 06

Akaka ignores calls for more debates in Hawaii senate race


  • "Fundamentally, what this is demonstrating is Senator Akaka, I don't believe, has the ability to perform the full range of his responsibility on the floor of the United States Senate," Case said Tuesday in a news conference.
12 Aug 06

What You Can't Say


  • Have you ever seen an old photo of yourself and
    been embarrassed at the way you looked? Did we actually
    dress like that?     We did. And we had no idea how
    silly we looked.
    It's the nature of fashion to be invisible, in the
    same way the movement of the earth is invisible to all
    of us riding on it.
03 Aug 06

Regalia 101: All the facts you need about academic regalia

  • Answers to many questions about academic caps, gowns and regalia in US universities. - billso on 2006-08-03
30 Jul 06

Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Kamehemeha Schools would benefit from better governance


  • The dramatic rise in value of the assets of the Bernice P. Bishop Estate has made the estate too large to be properly managed as a trust. A 19th-century trust document is no longer suitable to meet the challenges of the 21st century. As we shall see, almost every provision in the princess' will has been breached.

The American Taliban

  • Your favorite American idiots in their own hate-filled words. - billso on 2006-07-25
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