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Never Stop Causing Good Trouble
A little update about HGTV’s Renovation Aloha.
I’ve had a running draft of updates about the Kalama couple that hosts the HGTV show Renovation Aloha. I wrote about my first discoveries here. My interest — apprehension — first peaked when they advertised an open house on their social media page, for a home that appeared in one of the first episodes of their show — a home they claimed to have sold — just 5 days after that episode appeared.
This was the beginning of what I hope is their end.
I woke up to the following headline; a published yesterday.
Civil Beat is an amazing, local, non-profit digital news site, launched by the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar. Their investigative and watchdog journalism has uncovered many huge local stories and coverups, ranging from legislative corruption to in-depth coverage of the Maui wildfires. I once was at the receiving end of a phone call from one of their reporters, looking to talk to the director of the state agency I was working for at the time…
