Episode 28: Greased Pua’a
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Kalaupapa gets broadband and digital cable, drivers in Hawaii are getting worse, the City Council wants answers to rail propaganda, and Nestor Garcia is offended you’d even think him capable of being a greased pig at the trough.
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Garcia Fined
Kalaupapa gets broadband!
http://www.inouye.senate.gov/news/press-releases/broadband-services-available-to-kalaupapa-residents
Council wants audit of PR Spending for Rail:
http://www.khnl.com/global/Category.asp?C=151146&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7437864
Grabauskis’ history of money mismanagement:
- Back in Boston, 2009 it was found by a City Auditor that $15.4m was wasted with an auto-fare pay system for the T. http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/02/by_globe_staff_45.html
- July 2008 – Grabauskas is saying he doesn’t know where the money will come from to pay a new union contract in which employees would get a raise. http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/09/its_workers_to_get_raise_but_t_funding_in_doubt/
- August 2008 – Grabauskas tried to give 273 executive MBTA employees a 9% pay increase, despite the MBTA being $8.2 billion dollars in the hole
- April 2009 – Grabauskas announces 75 layoffs due to budget problems
- August 2009 – Grabauskas resigns, amid pressure from Trans. Sec, public over financial concerns and safety concerns following two crashes of the T.
HART wants more seats and fare gates:
Hawaii Drivers have less aloha than ever before
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