The board of directors of the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, the faculty union, voted to end its 39-year relationship with the National Education Association effective September 1 without discussing faculty opposition expressed in a straw-poll. The directors narrowly split with 13 votes in favor of disaffiliation with the national organization, 10 opposed, with a [...]
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Just when I think that we’ve located all the old photos in my parents’ home, along come some more. Yesterday my sister handed me an old shoe box with a jumble of things inside. Lens caps to long lost cameras. Empty Kodak 35mm film cans. Empty slide boxes. Then some gems. A few stacks of [...]
No, I’m not talking about spiritual continuity after this life is over. I’m talking about the bureaucratic tasks that remain for those the departed leave behind. It’s the front end of that bureaucratic mess that I’m bogged down in now. Even when someone has done extensive preparations, as my mother did before her death last [...]
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I was wandering the web and stumbled across a copy of the Star-Advertiser’s current contract with the newspaper guild that runs through August 2016. Guild members are now represented by the Pacific Media Workers Guild (TNG-CWA Local 39521), based in San Francisco. Since the Hawaii Newspaper Guild was merged with the Pacific Media Workers Guild, [...]
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Until 1931, the year my mother graduated, the Kamehameha School for Girls was located in the block bounded by Kalihi Street and North King Street across from the present site of Farrington High School. Her scrapbook contains a number of photographs taken over several years from the late 1920s through to 1931. Most of them [...]
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Oahu legislators stand to gain if a Senate bill calling for a major change in the state’s reapportionment process becomes law. SB286, introduced by Sam Slom, the Senate’s lone Republican, would define “permanent resident” as “any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding U.S. census within the State of Hawaii.” Currently, Hawaii [...]
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Start your week with Buddy, Magic, and a bunch of other Kaaawa dogs! Our house is full of cats. Eight to be precise. But we get our daily dog fix as we walk the neighborhood each morning. I carry umbrella, camera, and an old, ratty canvas tote bag with an amply supply of dog treats [...]
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“There is no god but Costco.” So says Ernie Murphy in The Pizza Essay, which first appeared here in mid-2005. So…Television does reruns. Movies have re-releases. So why shouldn’t we enjoy the “Best of…” from prior years? Ernie Murphy’s Pizza Essay is one of my favorites. I don’t know what’s happened to Ernie, who used [...]
