Ozawa vs. Waters III: The final round?

In political terms, it has become something of our own Ali-Frazier trilogy. And with the third “bout” just concluding at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, it seems like a good time to look back at how we got here.

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Saving by the seat: vacant jobs and our governments’ budgets

The real question, still looming, is what happens next year when the bills keep coming in, but there are no more vacant positions to shuffle around.

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Time to work for a living

[R]emember those phone calls that you got to reject the pay raise before the hearing? Well, I am here to tell you that the volume, and “candor” of people calling – most of them your constituents – is about to get much higher.

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