Short takes, outtakes, observations and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawaii.
The Swiss government is paying for a Honolulu City Council member’s planned six-day trip to that country next week so he can experience European mass transit first-hand.
Someday the train will come. Mayor Rick Blangiardi, who held a news conference last week to start talking up the arrival of rail service, issued the latest assurance.
Recently, Steve Sue, who is making the documentary “Shaka, the Story of Aloha,” interviewed me about that local thumb-and-pinkie wave we do here. In preparing for it, I decided to take all the things I know about the shaka and put it in a timeline. It helped me gain some perspective on it.