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The Continuing Plot to Kill Amtrak … One Train at a Time.

ByJim Loomis 08/31/201412/05/2016

I have a hard time figuring out the people in Congress who have it in for Amtrak. What is it that drives them? Ideology? Spite? Ignorance? Stupidity? Maybe even all of the above? Why, for instance, would a Congressman from Texas introduce a bill that would kill a long-distance train that crosses the entire width…

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We Can Hide, But We Can’t Run.

ByJim Loomis 08/06/201409/06/2014

It’s been a busy day. We have not one, but two hurricanes out here in the Pacific and they’re both headed our way. One, Hurricane Iselle, will make landfall tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon on the Island of Hawaii and will pass just south of us here on Maui early Friday morning. The second storm, Julio, looks…

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It Really Is a Small World After All.

ByJim Loomis 10/29/201209/06/2014

Most of the media attention – and quite properly so – is falling on Superstorm Sandy, which is now moving up along the East Coast. We here in Hawaii had our own nature-related scare the other day when an earthquake off of British Columbia generated a tidal wave that threatened our islands. As it turned…

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Pass the Battens, Stand By the Hatches!

ByJim Loomis 08/11/200909/06/2014

Hurricanes are unusual here in Hawaii. Only a couple have hit us dead on in the last 20-plus years. But when they do show up, they can be real doozies. Hurricane Iniki brushed Oahu back in 1991 and smacked Kauai straight on and with full force. The head of that island’s Public Works Department told…