Well, here we are at the new website and new blog site. Hope you found your way here all right.

Most of the difference is at the “back end” where we write our blogs, not out there were folks read them.

Let me know if something seems to be missing.

Meanwhile, the latest flap at the Capitol is over a proposal to conduct a special audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. OHA supporters are miffed, saying they undergo regular audits on a regular schedule, so this is simply a form of harassment by lawmakers who are being asked to give OHA extra money and land.

Well, yes. And what do you expect? In politics, particularly legislative politics, what one hand gives the other takes away. Anyone who has asked the Legislature for something knows that it will come with strings. That’s why people have to be careful about asking for political favors, because such favors inevitably come with a dash of additional political meddling or control.

Lawmakers will argue that they are simply being prudent. If they are going to cough up taxpayer money, they have a right and an obligation to see precisely how that money is being spent.

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