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There’s always something interesting going on at Honolulu Hale.

Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.

Carlisle’s Public Sked

4:46 p.m.
Here’s Mayor Peter Carlisle‘s public schedule for the next seven days:

Saturday, July 23rd

• No public events.

Sunday, July 24th

• No public events.

Monday, July 25th

• 5:30 p.m. — Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the Cal Ripken Pacific-Southwest Regional Tournament Dinner. Pacific Beach Hotel.

Tuesday, July 26th

• 11:30 a.m. — Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the 27th Infantry Regiment’s Holy Family Home Orphan Reception Ceremony. Honolulu International Airport.

Wednesday, July 27th

• No public events.

Thursday, July 28th

• No public events.

Friday, July 29th

• 6 p.m. — Mayor Carlisle delivers remarks at the Waimanalo Country Fair. Waimanalo Beach Park.

City Seeking Hackers (just kidding)

4:31 p.m.
Are you a tech-savvy Honoluluan? Want to help build innovative Web applications for the city government? Today’s your lucky day.

Mayor Peter Carlisle announced today that Honolulu is one of 10 Code for America finalists. The nonprofit is accepting applications for its 2012 fellowship in San Francisco — only until July 31.

Read the .

Honolulu’s Locked-Down Freeways

11:35 a.m.
The not-uncommon practice in Honolulu of shutting down the freeway for hours to investigate a bad accident or a shooting isn’t common elsewhere.

That’s the rub from Alia Wong‘s story on Civil Beat this morning. Read it here.

Disposing Needles on Kauai

Inside Honolulu is still on the distribution list for Kauai press releases, and got one in its inbox that perhaps should be forwarded to officials at Waimanalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill.

The county engineer sent out a friendly reminder to residents that medical needles (“sharps”) are not recyclable. But normal folks can put needles in the regular trash — as long as they follow these steps:

• Sharps should be stored in a strong, leak proof plastic container, such as a laundry detergent bottle.
• The container should be clearly marked “BIOHAZARD.”
• When the container is full, it should be filled with one part bleach and ten parts water and allowed to soak for 20 minutes.
• The solution should then be poured into a sink, and the container should be sealed with its original cap. As a safety measure, heavy duty tape should be placed on the cap.

Hopefully that’ll be enough to keep Kauai’s beautiful beaches from looking like Ko Olina after a heavy rain.

Bombardier Mulling Options

Its appeal to the state was quickly dismissed, but would-be rail contractor Bombardier isn’t necessarily giving up yet.

Vice President Andy Robbins told Inside Honolulu yesterday that he’ll wait to see the written ruling from the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs before deciding whether to appeal to Circuit Court. He said he’ll have a 10-day window to make up his mind.

Robbins wouldn’t go into detail, but said he was disappointed in the ruling.

“Clearly we were looking forward to putting our evidence out there and testifying, but we got cut off,” he said.

Robbins attended the parallel appeal brought by Sumitomo on Wednesday. That case picks up again next week.

Where’s Carlisle?

There are no public events on the schedule today for Mayor Peter Carlisle — and we found out yesterday it’s because he’s in Los Angeles through Saturday.

We might get a new public schedule today for the next week.

Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu

July 21: Carlisle Out Of Town; Horner Rails Against LEED Costs; $1.3M in Rent for HART? Hamayasu on the Defensive; Head-Hunting Costs Money; Ready to Strike Again; A Third Rail Lawsuit To Watch?; Natatorium Re-Opens … In California; HART Meets Today (Twice); Where’s Carlisle?

July 20: Sumitomo Speaks; Water Rates Going Up, Up, Up; Sumitomo Rail Protest Still Alive; The Release; Carlisle: Sludge To Honouliuli; Martin: I Could Be Mayor; Sewage Sludge Presser at 10; Police Commission, Behind Closed Doors; Sumitomo’s Turn; Where’s Carlisle?

July 19: Koa Ridge Hits a Roadblock; City Pleased With DCCA Decision; Landfill Site Search Expands; Fact-Finding Rail Trips Cost $11,000; State Denies Bombardier Appeal; Open That Kimono; Rail a Rare Open Appeal Hearing; Where’s Carlisle?

July 18: City Files Rail Lawsuit Response; UPDATE: Tom Berg, Also a Crook; Martin’s Campaign Treasurer a Convicted Coke Dealer; City Wants More Time at Landfill; Then There Were Two; Eric Ryan: Tom Berg Is A Crook?; Berg “Pissed” but Ryan “In Play”; Food for Conflict Thoughts; HART Ready to Buy Parcels; Bike Battle Still Brewing; City Response to Rail Lawsuit Due Today; Weekend Shakeup at the Hale; Where’s Carlisle?

July 15: HART Board to Meet Next Week; ORI Plan Due Today; Kym Pine Website Launch Delayed By “Major” News; Mayor’s Public Sked; Tulsi Pulls In $20K; Where’s Carlisle?

July 14: Zoning Board Appointees On Track; Neighborhood Board Battle Brewing; HPD Not Alone in Lack of Self-Tracking; Where’s Carlisle?

July 13: City’s Staggered Terms Stay Staggered; Pow-Wow Just An Update; Does Military Count: City Edition; Rail Pow-Wow at the Hale; They’re Talking About Us In Dallas; Berg Stands By His Man; Laie Developer Resigns at Gov’s Request; About Those HART Offices…; Rail Opponents Pay for Ink; Where’s Carlisle?; On Tap for Today.

July 12: (Unnamed) City Official Violated Ethics Code; Ethics Questions Up From Last Year; Prosecutor Kaneshiro Target of Ethics Complaint; Elsewhere on Civil Beat; Carlisle Quiet Today.

July 11: Transparency Site Getting Stale; Hoopili Hearing Set for September; Fire Commission Meeting Today; Carlisle’s Early Start.

July 8: Rail Appeals Opened to Public; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Ethics Panel To Decide on Violations Tuesday; Smoke on the (Waste) Water; Three Oahu Projects in Environmental Notice; County Governments Gather in Honolulu; General Plan Process Under Way.

July 7: T-Minus One Hour to General Plan Meeting; Rail Contractor Protest Closed To Public; What to Read This Morning.

July 6: Oh Godbey, New City Lawyer in the House; Derailed: Tom Berg Q&A; Steinberger Slams ‘Anti-Synagro’ Resolution; Ag Land Property Tax Bill Heads Back to Committee; New Chair, New Seats; Council Gathers Early to Fete Honorees; Martin, Anderson Ink Op-Ed.

July 5: New State Law Protects County Firefighters, Lifeguards; Federal Highways Rep: City and State Need to Play Nice; Leeward Politicians Push for Bikeway; State Officials in the Hale for Transportation; Ernie Martin’s First Agenda as Chair; No Crime Stats for HPD.

July 1: City Parade to Cost $20K; Furloughs Are Over, Pay Is Up; No Laie Decision At Next Council Meeting; Housing Office Open For Business; HART Kicks Off New Era for Honolulu Rail; Happy New Year!; Martin Tabs Kobayashi as Budget Chair.