Every once in a while I like to look at how Hawaii is showing up in the news elsewhere. Here’s a quick sweep of relatively current news items. MailOnline, “Surf’s oop! How Hawaiian princes brought water sport to Britain in 1890 (in chilly Yorkshire of all places)” Hawaii author Sandra Hall unearthed a long lost [...]
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Over the weekend, Big Island blogger Damon Tucker tripped over the paywall at the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today. He described his experience in a blog post yesterday(“End of Free Online News From Big Island’s Main Stephens Media Newspapers“). Here are the new “Digital Only” rates for the Tribune-Herald being quoted online: Please select [...]
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Reporting is often routine stuff, checking the regular information “traps” to see what’s there. Sometimes nothing. Sometimes little hints. Sometimes a story. You never know what you’re going to find in the latest requests from state agencies to exempt contracts from competitive bidding. Blockbusters are few, but there are usually some useful glimpses of what’s [...]
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Speaking of condominium issues, that Maui jury award of nearly $3.9 million to a Molokai couple who were harassed by their condominium’s board of directors has probably rattled a lot of volunteer board members in condos across the state. Intense political wars within condominium boards are all too common, although in this case things certainly [...]
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This just in: The Democratic Party of Hawaii’s State Central Committee reconvened in emergency session late Saturday night and unanimously voted to reverse its earlier rejection of Laura Thielen’s request to run in this year’s election as a Democrat. The vote came shortly after midnight on Sunday, April 1. “We realized it’s far more important [...]
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Civil Beat editor and general manager, John Temple, is trading his jeans and slippers for a suit and tie after being named one of two managing editors at the Washington Post. News of the appointment was posted on Civil Beat early this morning, and is still reverberating through the journalism community. Here’s what’s being said [...]
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Did you catch this story a couple of weeks ago? I ran into it online while looking for more info about the tsunami debris field heading our way, which appears likely to have a major impact along our coast. But this is a little different. Ocean Radiation Plume Hits Hawaii From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown The [...]
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Why did it take so long for the news media to report that the CEO of Certified Management, one of the state’s largest property management firms, has been fired after she reportedly stole upwards of $50,000 from several condominiums managed by her company. Toni Floerke has admitted taking the money, according to a March 16 [...]
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