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IT'S OVER WELL BEFORE IT'S OVER: For those of us on the neighbor islands, the state legislature- which will mercifully cease to fun...

FEED YOUR HEAD: It never fails to amaze how may ways the Hawai`i state legislative system stinks. It's bad enough when a great bill get...

INCOMING: It's that's time of year when all the hard work at the legislature pays off like a Vegas slot with three lemons. But as t...

UP ON THE ROOF: They say that with age comes wisdom but the real trick may be in getting to be old enough so that others see that what appe...

SICK BUT NOT TIRED: "Hi, can I ask you something" she almost shouted as we approached her place of business from 40 feet way. Wha...

AND WE WERE GOING TO TAKE THE DAY OFF: When is news not news? When it's in our local newspaper in an article penned by journalism’s wor...

SPILL YOUR GUTS: Like the clockwork of a broken timepiece the legislative session reaches one of its more absurd dances-of-the-headless-chi...

JETTIN' TO THE PROMISED LAND: Upon disembarking, many Kaua`i tourist have been heard to happily exclaim that they feel like they just s...

FIND THE RED QUEEN: You can set your watch- well, maybe your calendar- by it. As the two minute warning for the first half of the legislat...

WEARING PROTECTION: The reporters’ shield law passed by the legislature last year has quickly become an essential tool in the dissemination...

TURNING OVER AND OVER: It’s hard to say it wasn’t with a degree of weary glee that we watched some of the finally-beaten-down, bible-thumpi...

THROWN OVERBOARD: Most county employees we’ve heard from are still quietly seething over their politically motivated furloughs last year wi...

WRONG PLACE, RIGHT TIME: Today’s 3 p.m. State Senate hearing of a bill ( SB 1460 ) that would make “possession of one ounce or less of mari...

SOMEONE UP THERE IS LISTENING: The mockery of ethics that is the Kaua`i Board of Ethics ( BOE - just click the link for our coverage of the...

A PERMANENT TIME OUT: Our foaming rant last week suggesting that the actions of those that want to shove their devout delusions down our t...

WHY SAY YOU WILL WHEN YOU WON’T?: What a difference a year makes. As the ’09 legislative session approached, the bigot community was whippi...