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6:11 p.m. September Is Sewage Month

The city today announced 13 different sewer projects that may impact Oahu traffic in September:

• Airport Sewer Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Phase 1
• Ala Moana Trunk Sewer Rehabilitation
• Beachwalk Wastewater Pump Station to Ala Moana Park Sewer Phase 1, Force Main System
• Houghtailing Street Area Sewer Rehabilitation
• Kahanu Street, School Street, and Umi Street
• Kalakaua Avenue Sewer Rehabilitation
• Kalanianaole Highway Sewer System Improvements
• Rose Street and Kamehameha IV Road, Richard Lane and Linapuni Street Sewer Rehabilitation
• Saint Louis Heights Sewer Rehabilitation
• Sewer Manhole and Pipe Rehabilitation at Various Locations Phase 2
• Waimalu Sewer Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Phase I/II
• Waipahu Street/Plantation Village Sewer Reconstruction
• Wilhelmina Rise Sewer Rehabilitation

In all, more than 120 ongoing projects are focused on the city’s wastewater treatment plants, pump stations and collection system, the city said. The projects are part of $533 million of ongoing wastewater projects.

11:58 a.m. Rail Media Blitz

Last week, we highlighted the opinion piece authored by rail critics, and wondered whether the city would have a response. (That piece is currently undergoing Civil Beat‘s Fact Check treatment.)

The short answer: Yes.

Mayor Peter Carlisle was among six authors of a in Sunday’s Honolulu Star-Advertiser that rehashed many of the proponents’ talking points. Carlisle then made the rounds with GoRailGo! President Maeda Timson on this morning’s TV news shows.

You can view KITV’s interview , and watch Hawaii News Now .

9:15 a.m. I’m Peter, Not Mufi

During last year’s campaign, then-Prosecutor Peter Carlisle ran as a reformer, promising changes if he were to be elected mayor. But after he took office, he continued many of former Mayor Mufi Hannemann‘s policies and retained many of Hannemann’s directors.

The lack of change may be a source of grief for some in Honolulu, but it was a source of laughter this weekend for those who were lucky enough to score a ticket to one of four performances of the famed Gridiron show.

The show, which provides some of Hawaii’s best political satire, is put on by talented folks in the media and media-adjacent fields, including Civil Beat‘s Chad Blair and Katherine Poythress. (Inside Honolulu was an emcee for Thursday’s dress rehearsal and both Saturday performances, but cannot sing or dance like his colleagues.)

KITV reporter Keoki Kerr portrayed Carlisle for a song called “I’m Peter, Not Mufi,” sung to the tune of “” by Bobby McFerrin, that had some fun with the subtle differences between Honolulu’s new mayor and his predecessor.

Here’s an image, from , of Kerr as Carlisle, complete with the mustache:

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Carlisle attended Saturday night’s show, and seemed to have a good time. He stuck around after the show to chat with Kerr and other members of the cast.

Honolulu City Council member Nestor Garcia was lampooned for his side job with the Kapolei Chamber of Commerce, and Councilman Tom Berg, also portrayed by Kerr, sang that he was “proud to be a Republican, from the party that sips tea.”

Multi-tasking city bus drivers, Honolulu’s fireworks ban and a proposed prohibition on texting while walking were mocked in skit and song.

The show’s run is now complete, and it won’t be back until 2013, but organizers might still have song books for sale if you want to reproduce the experience at home.

8:54 a.m. Seven Fact Checks

When rail opponents penned a lengthy op-ed in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser a week ago, it included claims about the ways the city has misled the public. Civil Beat has identified seven Fact Checks from that piece, which will determine the veracity of the critics’ statements and, in the process, answer some important questions about the rail project.

Here are the seven Fact Checks, most of which are still in progress:

• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: Bus/Rapid Transit Would Accomplish Same As Rail, Cheaper
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: Stations Would Be Ten Stories High
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: Environmental Groups Oppose Heavy Rail
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: City Needs $100M Per Year To Keep Trains Running
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: City Used Dated Population Forecast
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: DLNR Statement on Burials ‘Patently False’
• FACT CHECK — Rail Opponents: City Has Yet To Identify 10,000 Promised Jobs

The lone exception is the one about burials, which we found to be true. The opponents based their statement on a previous Fact Check, published here in April. We’ll be updating the remaining Fact Checks throughout the week, and will let you know here in Inside Honolulu when we’ve reached conclusions.

Where’s Carlisle?

Mayor Peter Carlisle has no public events on his schedule for today.

Read Previous Editions of Inside Honolulu

August 26: Carlisle’s Public Sked; PBN Now Anti-Rail; Code for America Picks Honolulu; Wednesday Meetings, Too; Tuesday Council Committee Agendas Out; Just In Case; Where’s Carlisle?

August 25: Senator to HART: ‘We’re Counting On You’; Inouye at HART Today; Mayor Catches Some Waves; Vacation Rental Plan In Limbo; Where’s Carlisle?

August 24: Rail Opponents Ask For Investigation; Gun Rights Group Sues HPD; Council Redistricting Today; Tales From Japan; Transient Accommodations Fight Continues; Where’s Carlisle?

August 23: Sumitomo Won’t Appeal; Honolulu’s Newest Apps; Three Added to Cabinet; Next Enterprise Services Director: Keoki Miyamoto; Search and Rescue; Queen of Waikiki Turns 110; Where’s Carlisle?

August 22: Anti-Rail Op-Ed, or Editorial?; Water Board Public Hearing Today; HUD Secretary Hawaii-Bound; Where’s Carlisle?

August 18: Carlisle’s Public Sked; Statehood Day; No Car, No Problem; HART ‘Comforted’ By Sumitomo Ruling; HART Meets Today; Pay Your Taxes; Where’s Carlisle?

August 17: Council Advances Campaign Sign Rules; $1 Million Settlement Approved; Mililani Senior Development Gets OK; Laie Hotel Deferred One Month; ‘You Got Shafted, I Got Shafted’; Council To Defer Laie Hotel Vote; HART to Ansaldo: Prove You Can Handle It; Council Sends Ag Property Tax Bill To Mayor; Godbey Confirmed As Corp Counsel; The ‘Million-Dollar Baby Toe’; Police Commission Agenda; HUD Not Happy With City’s ORI Report; Council Meeting Today; Sewage Trucking Begins; Where’s Carlisle?

August 16: Corp Counsel on Bombardier Suit; Bombardier’s Lawsuit; Tam Sentencing Delayed Again; Feds To Pay For Kolekole Pass Repair; Ethics Panel Waits on Travel Gift Policy; Rod Tam Sentencing; Newsmaker Interview Today; Where’s Carlisle?

August 15: Missouri Company Gets Sewer Contracts; Landfill Selection Meetings Postponed; Bombardier Appeals to FTA, Court; Busy Weekend for Rail; Questions for Yoshioka; Ethics Commission Today; Where’s Carlisle?

August 12: Feds’ Rail Lawsuit Response; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Council Agenda Published; Cabinet Gathers; Moku on HUD Meeting; Transportation Newsmaker; Where’s Carlisle?

August 11: Horner Lays It Down; Mayor’s Math Problem; Capitol Moat Sewage; Council Chair on Commissioner’s Ethics Violation; HART Finance Committee to Meet; Where’s Carlisle?

August 10: Vacation Rentals Argument Not Over Yet; Quintal Retires, Quietly; Packed Auditorium; Beat the School Jam; Vacation Rentals on Planning Commission Agenda; Morning Reading; Where’s Carlisle?

August 9: Ethics Agenda Out; EPA Fines Pest Control Co.; Regulating B&Bs Not So Easy; Where’s Carlisle?

August 8: Bombardier on Appeal; Carlisle In Da Hale; Where’s City Oversight?; Police Department Names Names; Carlisle on Japan, in Video; Where’s Carlisle?

August 5: 6:51 p.m. Carlisle in Japan, in Photos; Bombardier Officially Rejected; Ansaldo Enlisted to Fix San Fran’s Light Rail Cars; Traffic Ticket Quota; Carlisle’s Public Sked; Ansaldo Honolulu “Pleased” With Finmeccanica Restructuring; Waianae’s Clean Water Award; Chair Garcia’s Checklist; Where’s Carlisle?

August 4: Congestion Tolls in Honolulu … Someday; HART Here, HART There; Zoning Appeals Board Appointments Advance; Committee Moves Sign Bill Forward; Moratorium Lifted on New Sewer Connections in Waimanalo; Free Speech vs. Open Space; Today’s Committees; Where’s Carlisle?

August 3: Board Defends Rate Hike; Appointee Asked About Water Rates; Tow Trucking Debated; Seniors, Disabled Ask for Help; ORI Discussion Coming Soon; Today’s Committees; Fewer Golfers, More Money; Chang’s Public Service; Where’s Carlisle?

August 2: Case Closed, Not Decided; City Rests, Ansaldo Satisfied; City Witness Rebuts Sumitomo; Ireland, Silva Like Merger; Talking Merger; No Competition for Carlisle; Berg: GOP “Party of the Skin Heads”; Today’s Committees; Want Train? Get Brains; Where’s Carlisle?

August 1: Across the Street?; Waipahu Board Backs Hoopili; Executive Session?; Ansaldo Responds; Rail Appeal Continues, With Questions Churning About Ansaldo; Sewage Spill in Kailua; Where’s Carlisle?