Oh, my. More not-so-good news about the new Star-Advertising, this time from Joan Conrow on Kauai, who has previously written for both the Star-Bulletin and Advertiser. Joan describes in detail how the management of Oahu Publications, which owns the Star-Advertiser and MidWeek, reacted to a post in her “Kauai Eclectic” blog containing her initial assessment [...]
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In a small way, we looked forward to the consolidation of Honolulu’s two daily newspapers, but only because it promised to reduce the ever-growing stack of newspapers that sits in the house until we finally get around to hauling it off to the recycling bin at Kaaawa Elementary School. But every day this week, there [...]
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The question of whether publicly funded elections can offer candidates “equalizing” payments to offset higher spending by privately funded opponents is again heading to what appears to be an unfriendly U.S. Supreme Court. The Supreme Court this week overturned a “stay” issued by a federal court in Arizona which had allowed that state’s public financing [...]
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