Just one week to go before the Honolulu Advertiser is dismantled, while a dangerous information vacuum has caused extensive confusion that could endanger the health benefits of Advertiser employees. On June 25, the Newspaper Guild advised Advertiser employees not to sign up for temporary health coverage offered by HA Management Inc., the company formed to [...]
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A comment by ‘hipoli’ a couple of days ago about the Congressional race drew a number of lively responses. Here’s a piece of the comment that started it: Be clear to your readers about where you stand in this particular race or be more fair in what your reporting (again, if you already have and [...]
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Turning to Charles Djou, the newly elected member of Congress from the 1st District. I did two quite compilations. The first lists the top contributors combined using the name of the contributor. The second list takes a slightly different approach by combining contributions from those listing the same employer. You’ll see both similarities and differences. [...]
Tags: Charles Djou·Colleen Hanabusa
As promised, here’s installment #2 from the backlog of our Kaaawa morning dogs. These are dogs we meet and become friends with that happen to live along the route of our daily walk to the beach and back at dawn. This is a relatively rare picture of Paco and Lucy, a pair that are usually [...]
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A task force appointed by the Department of Education has recommended that a proposal to close Kaaawa Elementary School be rejected by the Board of Education. A public hearing to consider the task force report will be held next Wednesday evening, June 2. The DOE’s official notice of the meeting was publicly posted on May [...]
Tags: education·hawaii department of education·Kaaawa·school consolidation
Wading through campaign finance data is an ongoing process. The raw data–lists of individual contributions as reported by candidates–are the easiest to report but tell only part of the story. Massaging the data means combining the raw contributions of related donors, such as officers of the same company or group of related companies. Sometimes contributions [...]
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Here are a couple of cat updates for this Feline Friday. First, though, not to fear, there’s a Feline Friday photo gallery. Just click on this photo of Duke and Romeo to see the rest of this week’s cats. Then the news. Mr. Duke went for a check-up this week with his favorite vet, Ann [...]
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I’ve been neglecting the dogs again. Well, not really. But I’ve been neglecting their pictures. So that has left me with a backlog of photos of our morning friends. I’ll try to catch up over the next several days. Here’s the first installment, featuring Mr. Boogie in the lead role. Click on this photo for [...]
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