I went looking this morning for news coverage of Saturday’s gathering of union members from the Honolulu Advertiser. According to a media advisory sent out on Friday, Wayne Cahill, administrative officer of the Hawaii Newspaper Guild and spokesman for the six unions that represent the Advertiser’s 600 employees, would be available for interviews following a union meeting at the ILWU on Saturday afternoon. I didn’t notice any coverage yesterday, and a search of Google News this a.m. didn’t turn up any stories, either print or broadcast, although the Star-Bulletin ran a story in advance of the meeting. No coverage? Really?

On Thursday’s Town Square program, Cahill commented on the relative lack of labor reporting, noting that there hasn’t been a reporter assigned full time to a labor beat in decades. No news is, well, no news.

Web Worker Daily, citing a survey of airport wireless connections for travelers, has some unflattering words about Hawaii’s airports:

Hawaii looks to be, to quote John McEnroe, “the pits of the world” for any form of Wi-Fi in the airport–paid or unpaid. The airports at Kona, Lanai, and Lihue (Kauai) are all completely devoid of Wi-Fi.

The full list of airport Internet connections is available on TravelPost.com’s “definitive guide“.

Apologies to cartoonist John Pritchett, who was distressed that the thumbnail version of his “Gannett Hatchet Man” caricature displayed here on Saturday was not up to his high standards.

Whenever you save an image at a certain size and then squish it with the code, it degrades horribly. I know there’s a link to the full size image but the smaller image looks really bad. I’m surprised you can’t see that.

The offending thumbnail has now been replaced with a high quality image that John kindly provided.

Honolulu isn’t going to be the only city where voters will have a chance to sound off on a transit plan. Seattle’s $17.9 billion rail and bus plan will also be on the ballot this year, according to the Seattle Times.

Californians will be able to set up legally enforceable trusts to care for their pets under a bill signed into law last week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

Before now, pet trusts in California were honorary, meaning they could not be legally enforced.

“When people originally set up trusts, they said I’m giving $10,000 to Dan, I want him to use it for my dog. Once it got into Dan’s hands, the trust didn’t have any teeth. Dan could do whatever he wanted,” says Dan Meek, a Florida attorney who writes Pettrustlawblog.com.

Under the new law, pet owners can set up a trust that provides a certain amount of money for the animal’s care if the owner dies or becomes incapacitated. The trust can be separate from, or part of, a broader estate plan.

To those of us with lots of animals, this would be a big deal.