Robert Thomas of Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert law firm who is representing Charles & Joan Coupe posted the opening brief of their appeal of Judge Ibarra’s September 25th, 2007 decision allowing the condemnation to proceed. Hopefully the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals will render a swift ruling upholding the condemnation of the Coupe parcel.
If they don’t, I got word from Stacy Higa today that he’s going to wait for Chris Yuen to finish negotiations with Oceanside before approaching the administration about acting on his recently passed resolution.Those negotiations would hopefully lead to Hawaii County indemnifying Oceanside from any possible lawsuits if the Coupe’s prevail in overturning the condemnation. If those negotiations fail, then he is going to approach the administration to seek a RFQ from contractors to get the 1,000 foot Coupe segment built by Hawaii County.
There has been more fallout from Rep. Tommy Waters retribution against Rep. Josh Green,according to Ian Lind’s blog and the Capitol Notebook blog.
As far as I understand,there is only 25 ER doctors servicing all five hospitals on the Big Island. We are already at a emergency level with the lack of doctors here.If Josh Green is forced to give being a ER doctor, it would eliminate 10% of the coverage (time wise) at our ER’s.
It looks like Mesa Airlines is sailing into financial oblivion.It share price has dropped to an all time low of 81 cents a share. It wouldn’t surprise me that Mesa is going to be next airline forced into bankruptcy.
On a related note,Aloha Airlines CEO David Banmiller,claimed the feds brushed off claims of predatory pricing by Mesa Airlines subsidiary Go Airlines. The DOJ’s response was this :
Michael Reynolds, acting assistant secretary of transportation, said predatory pricing is difficult to define and hard to prove.”
In my opinion, what a bunch of bunk. An average joe could plainly see that Go Airlines was trying use predatory pricing to drive Aloha Airlines out of the market. Howard Dicus has some more commentary on this here.
Update: I found this blog which cements the assertion that Mesa/Go indeed is heading towards financial oblivion
