Word was circulating yesterday that Steve Petranik, currently the Honolulu Advertiser’s 24/7 local news editor and a former Star-Bulletn staffer, is leaving to take the editor’s job at Hawaii Business. Retired Advertiser editor Jerry Burris has been filling in at the magazine following the departure of Kelli Abe Trifonovich, who I’m told is now at the State Auditor’s office.
The move to online delivery has finally resulted in fees for those who want to continue subscribing to regular deliveries of legislative documents from the House Printshop.
According to a December memo from House Clerk Patricia Mau-Shimizu, three options are available.
Those receiving all documents, including bills, resolutions, committee reports, order of the day, referal sheets, action sheets, and conference committee reports will be charged $420.
For bills introduced and conference reports only, $210. And for just the bills as introduced, $170.
Those still sound like bargain prices, considering the number of documents and the volume of paper that moves through the printshop during a typical session.
Charitable organizations will be exempt from the fees.
And, of course, more information than ever is now available online for free.
The Hawaii Superferry didn’t seem so super during rough seas on Sunday, according to reports on KGMB and in yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser (that story made the newspapers “most read” list).
According to one comment on the Advertiser story:
My family and I were on this particular voyage…rough doesn’t begin to describe the ride. We’ve caught the superferry 8 times so far and this was the worst we’ve ever felt. I can honestly say that this experience has made me decide that I never want to catch the Superferry again. I don’t want to take my chances. I estimate that more than 90% of the passengers were vomiting from the moment we passed Diamond Head. There was about 1.5 hours of relative calm while we were sailing between Molokai and Lanai and then the second storm of nauseous attacks began. Our boat was suppose to land at noon, but we docked at around 12:40. I did notice that the captain did slow the boat down at times when the seas seemed insane.My wish is that the Superferry would have some decency to cancel voyages when they know that seas are bad…or at least give passengers the option of rebooking/getting a refund on those days. One thing I may add is that the staff aboard was EXCELLENT & HELPFUL… iron stomachs!
Here’s the latest on the money woes at the Seattle Times, which is trying to stay afloat by selling off real estate and its newspapers in Maine. Things aren’t going well, and the sales missed an end-of-the-year deadline.
From Crosscut.com, a great Seattle news site:
he bad news for the Times Co. comes in several flavors. With every passing day, Blethen Maine — which includes three Maine dailies, including the Portland Press Herald, the state’s largest paper, a website, and real estate — loses value. When the sale of the chain was announced last spring, Blethen told the Press Herald he hoped to get $100 million. But the market for newspapers has dropped sharply since then. Hard-pressed media companies have recently put far more attractive papers on the block, including dailies in Miami, Denver and Austin, Tex., and nobody is buying. Connor’s group, Maine Media Investment, has been the only serious prospect for the Blethen Maine chain, which the Times Co. borrowed $230 million to buy a decade ago. These days, according to knowledgable people in Maine, the chain’s value may lie solely in its real estate, which is assessed at $28 million.
Following up on yesterday’s tip, it seems that the police were indeed present in force at the Pacific Park Plaza building yesterday in another jaywalking crackdown. I’m told there were 4-5 police vehicles around building at times, and people are being told they will likely be there all week.
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Petranik has been responsible, at least to answer, for the Advertiser’s headline writing, some of which has been atrociously misleading/inaccurate during his watch. I give him props for answering complaints, but not for improving the product.