Baron Sekiya wasn’t the only staffer to lose his job at Stephens Media, which owns the Hawaii Tribune-Herald as well as West Hawaii Today and other Big island Newspapers. Pacific Business News reported last week that the company also cut its state capitol reporter, Nancy Lauer. Lauer has been an officer and director of the [...]
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Hawaii is not alone in facing substantial (scary) budget cuts. A story in the Seattle Times over the weekend describes the impact of shortfalls on the state’s universities. It isn’t pretty. For thousands of people clamoring at the doors of higher education — often to get retrained or better educated because of the downturn — [...]
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I had misplaced this prize picked up when I was in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, but noticed them last night. The special glasses apparently let you see through lots of the normal b.s., acting as a filter of sorts. The view from behind the glasses is surprisingly clear. Luckily, they turned up in [...]
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More bad news from the Honolulu Advertiser, where Gannett is now seeking significant pay cuts, according to a bargaining update from the Hawaii Newspaper and Printing Trades Council. Company negotiator John Jaske said Advertiser revenue has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years, causing the company to seek the pay cuts and another $4.5 [...]
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It’s a very wet and windy Saturday morning in Kaaawa and across the island of Oahu, judging from a quick look at Honolulu traffic cams. We don’t often cancel our morning walk down to the beach at dawn, but this is one of those days. In a legal notice published this week in the Maui [...]
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A reader wonders about the disappearance of Advertiser street racks. All around the city there are vending machines disappearing. Many of the machines are off of very visible locations. I work in downtown, there have been alot of corners that I have bought papers from before that no longer have vending machines on them. Tamarind [...]
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Maverick Wayne Nishiki took a $100,000 “loan” from developer Everett Dowling’s Dowling Co., the Maui News reports. The story appeared yesterday and was updated this morning. But MauiTime Weekly beat Maui News to the punch. But a caveat–although the MauiTime story online is dated November 13, I’m told it actually appeared on Tuesday the 18th. [...]
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