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The Hawaii Tribune-Herald ran the following correction today to a story that was published Monday:

Roland Higashi of Creative Arts Hawaii and real estate investor Monika Mallick made campaign contributions to 5th District County Council candidate Wayne Joseph, not incumbent Emily Naeole as incorrectly reported Monday. And, while Ironworkers Local 625 contributed $5,500 to the 1st District state Senate campaign of Dwight Takamine, Takamine's campaign returned $1,500 to the union to stay within campaign spending limits. The Tribune-Herald regrets the errors.

Attributing the wrong contributors to a campaign is a reporter's mistake that's understandably, though regrettably, made when sorting out all the numbers for multiple candidates on a tight deadline.

But the mistake about Takamine should be inexcusable. The Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today, both owned by Stephens Media Group, already published stories about the contribution in which it falsely accused Takamine of campaign violations in a headline that was never corrected, and the newspapers themselves never reported the fact that Takamine was not in violation of anything connected with the donation.

The newspaper did report correctly in June that the contribution was returned to the union upon the campaign's own discovery of the error, according to the Campaign Spending Commission, which makes the continued reporting of the contribution in Monday's edition, correction today or not, look like serious, perhaps even malicious, disregard for the facts, and raising the question of whether there really is a dirty tricks campaign against Takamine in the Stephens Media news columns.

A tip of the hat to cartoonist Greg Henkel.

It's a three-way race for mayor with a huge bloc of undecided voters, according to a Hawaii Tribune-Herald poll that reflects what I wrote here on July 24.

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I just learned that Rob Tucker, president of the Friends of Puna's Future, one of the community groups spearheading the movement to pass the Puna Community Plan without amendments, we will be on radio station KHBC 1060am and 92.7 FM this morning after the 8am CNNnews, according to an e-mail this morning from station manager Stephanie Salazar. That's less than an hour away from the time this is posted. Sorry for the short notice.

"Money offered to study curbside trash service"

Ho-hum, yeah?

"County lags on recycling grant, loses $100,000 "

Got your interest?

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Aunty Em is feeling sad. Brenda Ford won't take her peace offering. All "Aunty Em" Naeole did was call Ford a "donkey" during a public meeting.

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OK, candidates, never mind for now. Peter Serafin called this morning to say he and his staff are hoping and planning to have some kind of publication out next month in the wake of the Hawaii Island Journal's recent demise.

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I wanted to hear the discussion of the Hawaii Island Journal's demise but the meeting time announced by Tiffany Hunt when she posted the agenda here was 9:30 a.m. I then wrote a post about the meeting with the time included here.  But the actual time of the meeting was 8:30 a.m., which I found out while walking from my office to the County Building at about 9:25 this morning.

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Ian Lind at iland.net today alerts us to the part of this Washington Post story about  right-wing loony Andrew Walden, publisher of Hawaii Free Press.

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