Abercrombie right at home with his scepter and throne

By David Shapiro

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 21, 2011

~~<p>The big concern about Gov. Neil Abercrombie isn’t that he makes mistakes — anybody new to a job does — but that he doesn’t learn from them.</p>
<p>The flap over his secret emergency declaration suspending some two dozen environmental and land use laws for military ordnance removal seems a repeat of the pointless controversy he ignited early in his administration by shrouding his judicial appointments in secrecy.</p>
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The big concern about Gov. Neil Abercrombie isn’t that he makes mistakes — anybody new to a job does — but that he doesn’t learn from them.

The flap over his secret emergency declaration suspending some two dozen environmental and land use laws for military ordnance removal seems a repeat of the pointless controversy he ignited early in his administration by shrouding his judicial appointments in secrecy. Login for more...