Articles tagged with: Neil Abercrombie
State of Hawaii Scores Miserable C In 50-State Ethics Evaluation
That’s right, folks! The great State of Hawaii has placed in the miserable middle of a 50-state ethics evaluation. According to the The State Integrity Investigation, a partnership of the terribly reputable and thorough Center …
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 …
How reWailuku Is Weaving A New Future For One Of Maui’s Most Important Towns
By Anthony Pignataro
We’re sitting at a table on the sidewalk in front of the Wailuku Coffee Company, over on Market Street. As we chat, people walk by at speeds not that much slower than the …
Maui County Council Candidate Don Guzman And APEC Violence And Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie’s Rain Dance
By Anthony Pignataro
DON GUZMAN ANNOUNCES!
And here’s someone else you can vote for now, and then grumble over after he’s been in office for a few months, and finally denounce when he comes up for reelection: …
Kula, Maui’s (Now!) Solar-Powered Surfing Goat Dairy
Governor Abercrombie: “All I said was, ‘Maui wants goat cheese.’”
by Anna Such
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Surfing Goat Dairy Farm celebrated the completion of their new 50- kilowatt solar power system last Friday (July 29) afternoon.
Governor Neil Abercrombie and Mayor …
Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie Hates, Then Loves, Industrial Fish Farms
One of the most visually arresting sequences in the 2005 Austrian documentary Our Daily Bread, a narration-less gathering of footage from factory farms, slaughterhouses and food processing centers, showed the completely mechanized gutting of fish. …
What It’s Like To Be Homeless On Maui
By Netra Halperin
When Janice (not her real name) worked in Washington D.C. as a federal grants program manager, it never occurred to her that she’d end up on the other side of social services. She …
By the Numbers: Abercrombie Applications Pour In & Australian Swimmer Thwarted By Jellyfish (Again)
2,430
Number of résumés received by Governor-elect Neil Abercrombie’s transition team as of November 15
2,158
Number of new unemployment claims filed statewide during the first week of November
2
Number of times Australian Penny Palfrey has attempted to swim …
Lingle to Hawaii Kids: Vote
The Kids Are All Left…
Last week, Gov. Lingle visited Oahu’s Aikahi Elementary and encouraged students to participate in the statewide Kids Voting Hawai‘i program.
It was an especially magnanimous move, considering that in 2008 Hawaii’s students …
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 …
