Here’s Why The Maui County Council Should Refuse Terryl Vencl’s Request For $3.5 Million For The Maui Visitors Bureau

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Here’s Why The Maui County Council Should Refuse Terryl Vencl’s Request For $3.5 Million For The Maui Visitors Bureau

May 17, 2012 – 7:12 am | No Comment | 53 views




By Anthony Pignataro
The story goes that Terryl Vencl spends a lot of time at Maui County Council budget hearings. Supposedly, she’s there every day, during the spring months when the …

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Are Hawaii Public Officials Who Use Twitter Just Bots?

February 24, 2012 – 8:35 am | No Comment | 42 views
Are Hawaii Public Officials Who Use Twitter Just Bots?

So some Investigative Journalism in the Digital Age students at Eugene Lang College in New York have started the Bot or Not Project. This is a simple test that allows Twitter users to see if …

Talking With U.S. Senate Candidate Ed Case

September 15, 2011 – 8:03 am | No Comment | 28 views
Talking With U.S. Senate Candidate Ed Case

By Anthony Pignataro
Today he’s managing attorney with the Honolulu law firm of Bays, Lung, Rose & Holma, but from 2002 to 2007 Ed Case was a U.S. Congressman, representing Hawaii’s Second District. In 2006, Case …

Coconut Wireless: Hawaii Senate Races and Term Limits

May 26, 2011 – 12:18 pm | No Comment | 62 views
Coconut Wireless: Hawaii Senate Races and Term Limits

Coconut Wireless
by Jacob Shafer
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Hirono She Did
More than a month after tossing his hat in the ring, Ed Case—who must have been feeling downright lonely in the race to replace outgoing Sen. Dan Akaka—finally has …

Inouye On Hawaii Senate Race: ‘I Will Not Take Sides’

April 18, 2011 – 3:21 pm | One Comment | 196 views
Inouye On Hawaii Senate Race: ‘I Will Not Take Sides’

After Ed Case made his Senate bid official last week, we weren’t the only ones who wondered whether he’d once again butt heads with Sen. Dan Inouye, who took offense to Case’s primary challenge against …

Who’s Next? A Look At the Race to Replace Senator Dan Akaka

March 10, 2011 – 12:52 pm | No Comment | 229 views
Who’s Next? A Look At the Race to Replace Senator Dan Akaka

That sound you heard last week was the collective lip-smacking of numerous Hawaii politicians—both in and out of office—who are now chewing on a tantalizing question: who wants to become a United States Senator? It’s …

Breaking: Akaka Won’t Seek Reelection in 2012

March 2, 2011 – 2:41 pm | One Comment | 9 views
Breaking: Akaka Won’t Seek Reelection in 2012

Sen. Dan Akaka announced today he won’t run in 2012, opening up a Senate seat that’s been reportedly coveted by the likes of former Rep. Ed Case and former Gov. Linda Lingle.
Here’s Akaka’s announcement.
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The Year in Review

December 31, 2010 – 10:31 am | One Comment | 217 views
The Year in Review

Is life like football or is football like life? Let’s see: one involves unnecessary roughness, revolves around money and encourages gambling and excessive drinking—and the other is played on Sunday. Another similarity between life and …

Ed Case Endorses Abercrombie and Slams Hannemann

August 26, 2010 – 12:28 pm | No Comment | 39 views
Ed Case Endorses Abercrombie and Slams Hannemann

For a guy who is neither an elected official nor an active candidate, Ed Case sure has managed to stay in the headlines. This week, Case announced he’s endorsing Neil Abercrombie for Governor. That alone …

Mufi Hits Abercrombie With Veiled Racism

August 17, 2010 – 2:14 pm | No Comment | 59 views
Mufi Hits Abercrombie With Veiled Racism

Dirty campaign tactics aren’t unique to Hawaii. Neither are racial tension and provincialism. What is unique is the sometimes charming, sometimes divisive, always muddled way we define “local.” And when that gets mixed up with …

Djou and Case rage against the machine

May 24, 2010 – 11:14 am | No Comment | 8 views
Djou and Case rage against the machine

Rage against the machine…
“We have sent a message to the United States Congress. We have sent a message to the national Democrats. We have sent a message to the machine.”
- Rep.-elect Charles Djou, in a May …