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10/24/2008
Senator Obama arrived in Honolulu last night and went directly to visit his ailing grandmother Madelyn Dunham (Toot) in her apartment. The story as reported by the Honolulu Advertiser can be found HERE. This post is not an endorsement of any particular candidate for president as my blog is used
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10/24/2008
It's Thursday here in Hawaii where the news has been a little light this week. Maybe that's a good thing given the trend of recent nationwide news. The biggest, little news item I found was the temporary shutdown of Mokulele Airlines due to a training issue. It seems that the FAA determined th
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10/23/2008
Having generated the data for "seasonal" variations in Kauai sales, I thought I'd take a look at what yearly sales look like for the period 2000 to 2008. We all know that sales are down nationwide and Kauai is no exception. The chart below seems a good way to show what is going on based on our
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10/20/2008
On the mainland, real estate sales typically perk up in the Spring after being relatively dormant during the Winter months. National data shows that the busy months for closings is the period of May through August with a peak in the months of June and July. Our mainland visitors often ask what
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10/20/2008
This post of for my Kauai contacts seeking information on condo sales history in the Poiipu, Kauai area. Data has been extracted from our Kauai multiple list system and charted in Excel. The first chart is for "legacy condos". I use the term "legacy condos" to mean those built in 1990 or earlier
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10/17/2008
New jet service for Hawaii interisland travel It has just been announced that Hawaii is getting additional jet service for inter-island travel. The local commuter airline, Mokulele Airlines has executed an agreement with Republic Airways to operate 4 Embraer 170 jets offering 6 first class and
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10/15/2008
Tools From Yester-Year MOSAIC 1.0 RELEASED NOVEMBER 1993 Who remembers the release of Mosaic, the first user-friendly web browser that preceeded Netscape? It was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. and released in November 1993. While
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10/13/2008
Century 21 All Islands continues to dominate the Kauai real estate market as shown in the updated chart below. The brokerage has 3 offices on Kauai plus multiple offices on Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island. Recent rumors that the company had closed some of it's offices on Kauai are incorrect. Th
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10/13/2008
Our local newspaper, The Garden Island, announced today that 3 Kauai visitors drowned in 2 separate incidents yesterday. One was on an East-Side beach in Kapaa where a man drowned off Kauai Sands beach. The other was 2 women who were swept off a ledge by a large wave at Queens Bath in Princevi
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10/13/2008
