Here are a couple of additional online sources that you might find useful.

iClips is a free daily news summary from local and national sources prepared by the Legislative Reference Bureau. You can subscribe and you’ll receive the daily updates via email.

The LRB Library produces a clipping of online news for members of the Legislative community. iClips provides links to articles of interest selected from local and national online news. Updated daily Monday – Friday by 10am.

Since the Hawaii news we get is usually heavily Oahu-centric, iClips provides an easy way to keep up with developments in the other counties, as it draws on neighbor island newspapers, including The Garden Island (Kauai), Maui News, Hawaii Tribune-Herald (East Hawaii) and West Hawaii Today (Kona side), along with Civil Beat, Hawaii Public Radio, and broadcast news.

With its mid-morning schedule, it won’t be ready to peruse with your morning coffee. But it’s a convenient way to get a sweep of daily news from across the state.

After looking through the day’s news on iClips, I wandered over to the LRB Library Catalog. I was just mildly interested at first, but then started noticing things. There, front and center, are online copies of the House and Senate Journals going back to 1975. These makes it possible to search legislative histories of laws going back as far as that. Formerly you had to find a library which had open shelves for browsing through the old bound volumes. Sometimes the LRB library was the only easily accessible game in town. Now it can be done from the safety of your own computer.

Down at the bottom of the LRB list are things related to Covid-19. I’ve just started to browse through some of those. It’s good to know just what is available.

The link to LLMC Digital Open Access led to another batch of research materials.

LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally through its on-line service LLMC-Digital. LLMC provides libraries with a reliable and budget-friendly source of digital replacement when their older, physically deteriorating books became too burdensome to store given diminished use. While aiding libraries in their preservation and space recovery programs, it also provides an economical way to complete retrospective collections.

If you’re at all interested in the history of Hawaii, just click to open the list of Hawaii documents, and I’m sure you’ll find enough to keep you busy for a while. I know that I did.

Anyway, I love this kind of collection of unusual links. You just never known when some of this will become relevant to something you’re concerned about.

Dig in, and share surprises that you might find.