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As usual, we walked to the end of the beach on the other side of Kaaawa yesterday morning, then turned around and headed back towards home. We were walking with Ms. Amedine, one of our regular morning dogs, and her people. I was surprised when the light changed and the early morning colors were replaced [...]

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Thanks to NorthDecoder.com (guess which state this blog is from?) for providing the morning laughs with this link to a dramatic reading of a transcript from a meeting of the Wasilla town council. After this hilarious five minutes, the reality sets in that this is supposed to be the the experience that qualifies the GOP [...]

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Friends of former Kaaawa neighbor and MidWeek editor (1989-94) Vera Benedek, who has been living in Alaska for over a decade, received an email from her yesterday.
For those of you who have asked me about Sarah Palin, as well as those of you who just haven’t gotten around to it yet. This is one [...]

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I almost forgot to share the dogs of August. I put this collection of photos together after realizing that our morning dogs have been invisible for the past month.
It isn’t that they haven’t been around, or that there’s been a lack of dog willing to pose for the camera. I just didn’t get around to [...]

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After McCain chose Alaska’s governor as his running mate, it suddenly doesn’t seem so far fetched that Lingle might also have been considered. After all, she has a lot more experience than Palin, both local and national. But she probably also has a lot more baggage to be considered and isn’t conservative enough for the [...]

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Here are a few more photos taken while sitting with the Hawaii delegates to the Democratic National Conventin during the first night’s proceedings.
In response to a question posed last night by a reader, inside Pepsi Center I’m using a Canon XTi digital SLR and two primary lenses, a Canon 28mm f/2.8 and a Canon 50mm [...]

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Please take a minute to respond to the convention survey to the left. It will help me direct my attention in Denver later this month. Thanks in advance.
For those who didn’t stop by over the weekend, please also scroll down and consider bidding for the vintage Star-Bulletin shirt. Proceeds will go to the fund [...]

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Reading through the list of stories receiving awards from SPJ last night is a reminder that there’s a lot of good reporting going on here despite the woes of the news industry.
Along that same line of thought, Liz Donovan’s Informaniac/Behind the News blog (one of those on my regular visit list) points to one assessment [...]

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