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Eye on Hawaii -
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Aloha,
We want to introduce you to our new irreverent, politically
incorrect Hawai`i news blog Akamai Hawai`i by local
journalist, Kimo Kapa`a -- a part of our international
eTN network already
enjoying 1.2 million visitors per month.
In Hawaiian, "Akamai" means "To make wise or smart" -- and
we promise it will always be a wise, pithy, no-nonsense
commentary on the local Hawai`i political and social scene!
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Hawaiian tsunami illustrates threat to
public safety
Dangerous Maui Tsunami Roulette
By Thomas R. Cannon, Architect, A.I.A.,
Chair, Maui Island General Plan Advisory
Committee
The recent Hawaiian tsunami illustrates
that a dangerous threat to public safety
exists here in Maui County.
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Hawaii tourism bracing for Japanese ebb
tide
By Staff Writer
HONOLULU, Hawaii - Hawaii’s Governor
Neil Abercrombie stated recently that
the loss from the expected downfall in
tourism from Japan will be tens of
millions of dollars.
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Hawaii limits its tourism markets
By Stephen K. Craven
I attended the spring market briefing by
the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA). Here
are some quick hits on things that were
presented by HTA (in no particular
order):
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Hawaii: The 7th U.S. State to end selective
tourist discrimination
The Hawaii Tourism Association (HiTA)
praises Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie
for signing the Civil Union bill today
in Honolulu. As the Governor said: "E
Komo Mai: It means all are welcome. This
signing today of this measure says to
all of the world that they are welcome.
That everyone is a brother or sister
here in paradise."
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Non stop flights from Shanghai to
Honolulu?
By Linda Hohnholz, eTN, Haleiwa, HI
The private-sector Hawaii Tourism
Association (HiTA) is working with a
Shanghai based investment company and a
new Chinese airline carrier to bring
three scheduled weekly nonstop flights
direct from Shanghai to Honolulu -- with
an option to later add two additional
weekly flights from Beijing. The
investor, who does not yet want to be
identified, will be in Hawaii at the end
of February and hopes to meet with
tourism officials and possibly Governor
Abercrombie.
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By Juergen T.
Steinmetz, eTN
While hundreds of homeless and
unemployed people live on Honolulu’s
beaches, including the tourist center
Waikiki, it is the Waianae Coast on the
semiarid west shore where the problem is
most visible
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Hawaii Governor's media blacklist
includes eTurboNews and Kamaainas
publications?
By Linda Hohnholz, eTN, Haleiwa, HI
It appears not much has changed in
Hawaii. Governor Abercombie’s idea of
involving the public to participate is
more or less a hoax.
Fresh ideas are being ignored, emails
are not answered, and phone calls to the
Governor’s office are not returned. New
ideas from what the “good old boys” see
as outsiders remain a threat in the
Aloha State. And this does not stop at
trying to silence the media.
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BY SCOTT FOSTER | FEB 04, 2011
Weeks have passed since environmental
human rights advocate, Carroll Cox first
began calling attention to what turned
out to be the second unauthorized
release of contaminated water (leacheate)
and mud -- containing garbage, heavy
metals and chemicals such as chlordane,
fecal matter and medical waste
(including vials of blood and syringes)
from Oahu's huge Waimanalo Gulch
Landfill (dump).
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Call For Extended Hawaii Legislative
Session Now
By Scott Foster
The Governor Spoke... I watched Governor
Neil Abercrombie's State of the State
address on TV, only a few days after
attending an event where the Governor
spoke and took questions from a
gathering of perhaps 100 diehard
Democrat supporters and 12-15 elected
Democrats. I thought the two speeches
eloquent, well composed and both were
delivered in a far-more measured tone
that one might have expected from
"firebrand" Neil Abercrombie. While the
old Neil was very much in evident, he
was uncharacteristically subdued and I
rather like his new style.
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Hawaii Governor plans to juggle tourism
dollars
“The truth is that our canoe, which is
our beloved Hawaii, could capsize. We
are in that unnerving moment, when we
could all huli, when we could turn over.
All of us are at risk, and all of us
have to face this,” Hawaii Governor
Abercrombie said, painted an alarming
picture in his State of the State
address on Monday, January 24:
“I will also reallocate funds from the
Hawaii Tourism Authority to basic
government services such as
environmental protection, improvements
to public facilities, and advancing
culture and the arts.
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Oahu Health and Safety Threatened By
Medical Waste Catastrophe
By Scott Foster
Who you gonna call ?
With back-to-back headline stories in
the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reading,
"Wastewater discharge from Waimanalo
Gulch landfill continues" (Jan 14),
"Medical waste spreads down Leeward
Coast" (Jan. 15) and "Rain dislodges
medical waste" (Jan.18) -- it's
anybody's guess how the Hawai`i Tourism
Authority will deal with what is quickly
becoming perhaps the greatest PR crisis
in Hawai`i`s history as a tourist
destination.
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By Kimo Kapa`a
With less than a week remaining until
the opening of the 2011 Hawai`i State
Legislature (January 19th), from all
outward appearances, everything is
proceeding as normal in the Big Square
Building.
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By Kimo Kapa'a
HONOLULU, Hawai`i - With opening day
of the 2011 Hawai`i State Legislature
looming on the horizon (January 19) like
the proverbial iceberg, the hitherto
unheard-of House leadership struggle
continues
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A NEW DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR AND
ADMINISTRATION IN HAWAII
"If one is not playing the great game of
politics, then one is being used as a pawn
by somebody who is. This is true in one's
condo association, PTA, city, county and
state governments, and in virtually any
other organization of humans one might think
of." - Scott Foster (1978)
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Haleiwa, Hawaii based International
Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP) is a
force for socially responsible and
sustainable Travel.
ICTP supports the UN Millennium
Development Goals, the UN World Tourism
Organization's Global Code of Ethics for
Tourism, and a range of programs that
underpin them. ICTP has members in 126
countries.
It was was founded in 2001 by eTurboNews
publisher Juergen Thomas Steinmetz.
Geoffrey Lipman joined the organization
during the East Asia Tsunami Crisis as
president. Mr. Lipman is Canadian,
living in Belgium. He was also deputy
secretary General of the United Nations
World Tourism Organization,
founder of the World Travel & Tourism
Council (WTTC) and is still the
top advisor for the current UNWTO
Secretary General Taleb Rifai from
Jordan.
Hawaii resident Steinmetz remains
chairman of ICTP.
Geoffrey Lipman gives his view on Travel
and Tourism in 2011. Tourism is the
largest industry in Hawaii.
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more about this outlook on Travel and
Tourism in 2011 more
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By Linda Hohnholz, eTN
Staff Writer
The Hawai'i Tourism Authority (HTA) is in
the process of developing Requests for
Proposals (RFPs) for its marketing contracts
for 2012 and beyond.
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By Kimo Kapa`a
It's been a particularly frenetic week in
exotic Honolulu. Adding to the normal
Christmas-shopping frenzy, island favorite
son President Barack Obama and family are
ensconced in a beachfront mansion for their
annual holiday visit -- with the associated
international media and nervous black-garbed
security folk lurking all about.
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CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry
posted this to CNN's Whitehouse blog:
" I thought it was funny when The Washington
Post joined various CNN anchors in teasing me
about creating "something of a brand covering
[President] Obama's vacations."
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WORD HAS IT there are three distinct camps over
in the olde Hawai`i State House; Speaker Calvin
Say's, the perennial Scott Saiki-Sylvia Luke
dissident hui, and the newly Electeds who seem to be
Calvin
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By Kimo Kapa`a
The long Honolulu symphony bankruptcy saga
entered another, hopefully final phase on December
13th when the Honolulu Symphony Society (HSS) Board
of Directors requested the court to place Hawaii's
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eTN ARTICLE |
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By Kimo Kapa`a
THE HONOLULU WEEKLY is well into its 20th
year and remains Honolulu's best alternative
news publication.
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