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Yes, I’m late. It’s after 9 a.m. and I’m just beginning.

I’ll blame “technical difficulties” but, really, sunrise walk, coffee, and an egg white omelet came first. I was derailed by the sunrise, then an inspection of the scene of the 2:30 a.m. accident that took out a long stretch of fence in front of Kaaawa School along with the neighbors’ wall, tree, and front lawn, and hearing loss resulting from last night’s photo session as friends jammed in Kaneohe.

Hmmm. Here’s a two-newspaper town moment. The front page of the Star-Bulletin’s Insight section features photos of three young people and a story about their views of politics. The story is syndicated from Newhouse News Service and the faces from all over the country, but not Hawaii. Meda’s comment: “If you don’t have enough reporters, that’s what you do.”

The front cover of the Advertiser’s Focus section is similar, with smaller photos of three students above the fold, three more below the fold, and essays from each regarding the election. But these kids are all students in local high schools, participants in the Advertiser’s teen editorial board. Score one for the ‘Tizer, despite today’s scheduled strike vote.

Re Chelsea Clinton’s visit to Hawaii, this was buried down in the Advertiser story today: “Media continued to be kept at a distance from Chelsea Clinton yesterday while average people got to hug her.”

And Richard Borreca notes in his On Politics column:

Both Clinton and Obama were made available to local media last week. Clinton had a brief call which consisted mostly of reading from a press release and then answering three questions. Obama conducted 10-minute one-on-one interviews and seemed much more relaxed. Winning the last eight caucuses and primaries must do that.

Sounds like Clinton has written off the Hawaii already despite Sen. Inouye’s push, doesn’t it?

NPR is featuring a story about the Hawaii caucuses by Hawaii Public Radio’s Kayla Rosenfeld on its “All Things Considered” program.

Noted: A Detroit story about the web site, Rottenneighbor.com, sites a posting from Hawaii.

For example, one posting from Hawaii complains about a Neighborhood Watch group that patrols every night by “zipping around in their carts with lights flashing.” The poster asks, “Do they really think there isn’t any crime during the rest of the day? Only at 8 p.m. every night?”

Then there’s this Bay Area hula story spotted this morning.

And so it goes on this Sunday morning.