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It finally did rain overnight, a slow, steady rain that over the course of several hours gave the yard a pretty good soaking.
Derrick DePledge has a good follow-up this morning on the state’s claim of “attorney-client privilege” and “executive privilege” to justify the continued withholding of certain internal records concerning the decision to exempt the [...]

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Did you happen to catch KITV’s Robert Kekaula last night on the Mitchell Report regarding banned substances in baseball? It was an embarassing bit of commentary and denial. He led off by saying it was like a smear of the players, “all hearsay” and “no hard evidence”, and it never got much better. I suppose [...]

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Who’s that guy in the superman costume?
If you guessed Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie, you’re probably among the few readers who recall this little slice of Hawaii political history, which I found on a shelf in my office and scanned yesterday afternoon.
It was the 1970 when UH grad student Neil Abercrombie filed to run for U.S. [...]

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Tomorrow will be the eighth anniversary of the slightly premature 1999 announcement of the Star-Bulletin’s closure. If Gannett had its way, the S-B would be only a dim bit of Hawaii media history. Instead, it continues as a thorn in the side of Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser. How time flies when you’re having fun.
The recent revelations [...]

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It’s Feline Friday again, and Mr. Toby marks the day because he happens to be the one who was around when the camera was out earlier this week. In fact, he’s just been around more the last couple of weeks, and even more in evidence since we returned from Portland. He even slept inside last [...]

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Former Star-Bulletin editor Chuck Frankel bemoans the impact of all too frequent press breakdowns on home deliver of the Star-Bulletin. He sent the following email to S-B Publisher Dennis Francis, with a cc here:
I wish David Black would spend money on new presses instead of trying to buy more newspapers. The poor [...]

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Retired Star-Bulletin editor Chuck Frankel offered up a most interesting bit of personal and professional history on the issue of journalists’ political involvement.
I’m old enough to remember when Jack Burns and Tom Gill made separate campaign speeches in the city room of the Star-Bulletin. When Tom finished talking, I was pleased to march [...]

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William Cole’s story in the Advertiser a couple of days ago concerning the former nuclear weapons storage facility at Waikele brought back a lot of memories.
While a slightly later cohort of Marines like those interviewed by Cole were trying to keep prying eyes away from their classified bunkers, peace activists associated with the Quaker-based American [...]

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