It’s going to take you a while to wade through this weekend’s entries.

Retired Star-Bulletin editor Chuck Frankel had a brief comment on the S-B’s upcoming format change:

Note that the Star-Bulletin avoids the word “tabloid” in descrbing the shape of things to come. In a full page ad in the Sunday edition, it claims that this will be the “first compact format daily newspaper in Hawaii.” This is false. A tabloid was published, mainly aimed at the tourist market in Waikiki, some years ago. It was a good looking paper with Reuters news. It did not last long. My memory is so bad that I cannot recall the dates or the names of those involved.

Anybody else remember the Waikiki newsaper he describes?

Politico.com reported several days ago on Ed Case’s latest bid for the 1st Congressional District seat.

Check out this little story about a 2nd grade class at Punahou coming to the aid of students in an Alaskan village.

The same week that local leaders made a public plea in defense of business travel to the islands, a Minnesota police unit was catching flack for sending six members to a conference on Asian organized crime at the Waikiki Sheraton last month.

And don’t miss Life.com, billed as “the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web.”

I just ran into it because of a link to a collection of previously unpublished photos taken the day of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Guaranteed that you’ll end up spending a lot of time at Life.com.

The Legislature is coming up on the next big deadline, second decking, on Thursday. Bills have to be filed and ready for final votes by the end of the day or they’re dead for the session. Those 3rd reading votes will be finished by second crossover, which follows a week later (April 16). Then its the conference committee sprint to the end of the session.

I notice that the State Ethics Commission struck out again this year with none of its package of bills going anywhere. Neither the House or Senate judiciary committees heard any of the commission’s bills. The Good Government Caucus package didn’t fare any better.