It’s Saturday morning, and I’m headed into Honolulu with some errands to run, so little time to blog this a.m. Just a few recommendations, if you missed these items. • Rick Daysog’s “buyer beware” story about an apparent vacation rental scam on the North Shore. With the popularity of do-it-yourself-online vacation rentals, this is probably [...]
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With all the media-bashing yesterday over published reports that a suspect had been arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing, it was quite interesting to watch a PBS Newshour segment on the issue last night. JEFFREY BROWN: …And we’re joined from Boston once again tonight by David Boeri, a reporter for WBUR Public Radio. He’s been [...]
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Veteran journalist Bob Jones took to Facebook to break the silence about the elephant in the room ignored in all the Merrie Monarch news coverage. Maybe you’ll disagree, but I’ve never been ok with Chinky Mahoe let right back into the Merrie Monarch after his conviction for sexual abuse of boys in his halau. He [...]
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Ka Leo, the UH Manoa campus newspaper, has two stories this week worth noting. A column by an anonymous author (“Witnessing violence? An HPD arrest“) recounts an incident in which he (I’m presuming a “he” based on the story) saw a young man running from police and tackled and held him until the police caught [...]
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With hearings scheduled later this month on a plan to reopen Kulani Prison on the Big Island, it’s interesting to see what was being said about the facility back in February 1947. I was browsing in the State Library this past week when I spotted Paahao Press, a monthly magazine published by inmates in the [...]
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It’s one of those little crimes that just makes you sick. Thieves hit Ward Lemn’s Kaaawa home sometime overnight and made off with a priceless collection of fishing nets, some inherited from his father, that have been lovingly used, tended and repaired through the years. We were walking home about 7:30 this morning as a [...]
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Back when Honolulu had competing daily newspapers and television stations, stories bubbled up through what I call the news food chain, eventually getting delivered to the public through the mainstream media. Reporters for the daily media, at the top of the food chain, pored over sources lower down the food chain for breaking stories and [...]
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The University of Hawaii retained the law firm of Torkildson Katz Moore Hetherington & Harris to represent the university in matters related to the failed Stevie Wonder concert. I’m sure the university thought it was in good hands. But what the firm actually delivered at the State Capitol yesterday, in addition to another batch of [...]
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