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Even after the conspiracy conviction of Louis and Katherine Kealoha, Chuck Totto can feel vindicated — but still aggrieved.
The former director of the city Ethics Commission told the panel this week that it failed by pulling him off his 2016 probe of the ex-police chief and ex-deputy prosecutor. As a reason, chairwoman Victoria Parks cited the Kealohas’ lawsuit against the commission.
This agency truly needs to develop a profile in courage before tackling the next ethics lapse. And there will be one.
Hawaii had role in Apollo 11
The state has designated this Saturday as “Tranquility Base Day” to honor the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Among Hawaii’s roles in the Apollo program: Astronauts underwent training in Hawaii island volcanic craters; and during the space mission, Kauai’s Koke‘e Tracking Station provided voice relay and telemetry data communications between the astronauts and mission control in Houston.
Hawaii also played a key role in post-splashdown and recovery of the spacecraft. Before transport back to Texas, the astronauts traveled in a mobile quarantine facility from Pearl Harbor to Hickam Air Force Base.
