In the neighbor's yard?

On the other side of the hill?

Where we spilled the shoyu?

Over the septic tank?

What we do know is that the grass is always greener by City Hall.

But we don't know why.

Patches of grass around the municipal campus have been painted green in the last week. Spray-painted, it looks like. And not even a yellow-green grass color. It's like that sticky pine-green the Army paints on Civil War gun carriages.

It's great big areas. It's not like it's a little overspray from touching up cannon carriages. It's all over.

So why are we vamping like this instead of explaining the green? Because the City doesn't know either, or won't tell us. Calls are not returned from highers-up, and lowers-down refer us back upstairs. It's the usual City non-disclosure game. Maybe they feel they don't have to field public-information questions from the Star-Bulletin any more.

There are also little signs scattered about the Honolulu Hale campus urging people to watch out for pesticides. It's possible that the green paint has something to do with pesticide. That's a guess.

But there was good news from the City Council this week as they ratified a resolution supporting a second newspaper (that's us) in Honolulu. And even better news is that the City Council is balking at seizing control of the newspaper themselves. Then we'd NEVER get calls returned.

This was supposed to be the last Wat Dat in history, but the courts stepped in and decreed Wat Dat must continue for a few more weeks, so keep those queries coming.

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