University of Hawaii-Manoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw sent a “budget alert” to all Manoa faculty, staff, and students regarding a Senate bill that would authorized a substantial raid on special funds, including close to $59 million from UH. You may have heard earlier that the State House had unfortunately proposed additional cuts of $10 million for [...]
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A month or so ago I retired the Merlin EX720 broadband card that has been serving up wireless Internet service to my laptop for several years, and “upgraded” to Sprint’s new 4G offering, the Sierra Wireless Overdrive. Both operate on the existing Sprint network, but the new Overdrive also connects via the faster Clear/Sprint 4G [...]
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Advertiser columnist and former Star-Bulletin managing director, Dave Shapiro, left the humor out of his column today as he took on the state of local news reporting. Local TV news operates from a narrow frame of reference in which the typical newscast has become a recitation of the police blotter, the best daily melodrama from [...]
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