The highest form of flattery, maybe?

I'm informed some of my blogging appeared in Saturday's Garden Island. That's kind of exciting. It would be even more so if the paper had showed me some love by way of attribution.

The story concerns a case filed back in March of 2009 over the Knudsen Trust's planned Village at Poipu development. Here's how I summarized the various claims in the complaint in a piece I posted in April of '09:

• that the process of considering the Knudsen Trust's Village at Poipu development proposal violated the state public trust doctrine;
• that in the process of considering the Knudsen Trust's application for final subdivision approval of Phase One of the development, defendants failed to thoroughly investigate and protect Native Hawaiian rights;
• that defendants failed to comply with the requirements of HAR Chapter 13-284 - the administrative rules governing the review process the SHPD is to follow in making comments to state and county agencies on entitlements affecting historic properties;
• that the development threatens to cause irreparable injury to burial sites and other historic sites;
• that defendants failed to comply with the objectives, policies, and guidelines of HRS 205A, specifically, "the protection, preservation, and restoration of historic and prehistoric resources in the coastal zone management area that are significant to Hawaiian history and culture"; and
• that a supplemental EIS is required to address a plan to cross the Hapa Trail with a street.

And that's pretty much how the Garden Island summarized the complaint in its story Saturday about a decision in the case that occurred Tuesday. Prolific GI commenter, kauaiauwe (not me, I promise) noticed the nearly identical passages and said so in a comment to the story.

Hey, I'm happy for the paper to reprint anything I've written on Planet Kauai. But I'd appreciate a little nod. Something along the lines of, "According to Kauai attorney and legal blogger Charley Foster..." would be nice.