Keola Donaghy's Culture Hack

Monday, April 25, 2005

That's What Friends Are For... Honolulu Police stopped a man who was allegedly driving a stolen vehicle in Haleiwa at about 9 a.m this morning. As officers were arresting him, his friend, sitting in the passenger seat, climbed behind the steering wheel and drove off. Another car thief was caught sleeping behind the wheel of the stolen vehicle with its headlight on early this morning. Transplanted Floridiots perhaps, Scott?

Posted at 12:37:33 PM

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On the other hand, there is some good news... the Hawai'i County Council voted 7-1 last week to issue $500,000 in general obligation bonds that would help pay for the purchase of a large tract of land on the Ka'u coast and keep it out of developers' hands.

Posted at 7:54:51 AM

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Land rush to the Puna frontier. We live in Puna, albeit in the ma uka (upland), and in my opinion, much nicer part of Puna. Hawaiian Paradise Park has always had a wild-west feel too it. Buy a lot and build a house in the wrong area and you're likely to find it burned to the ground some day by your pakalolo (marijuana) growing neighbors. When we are shopping for property around 7 years ago we look at HPP and said "Thanks, but no thank you very much." Lots could be had in the $5,000-10,000 range even then.

Nice for current land and home owners in the area, including us, but as with the rising price of real estate throughout the state, pretty depressing for the next generation.

Posted at 7:34:38 AM

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