Thanks to a new Red Cross program, I was one of several MidWeek/Star-Advertiser employees who on a recent Saturday underwent training to help staff Red Cross shelters in times of emergency. The program, Ready When The Time Comes, utilizes corporate partners and their employees. While it’s new in Hawaii, with MidWeek/Star-Advertiser and Grainger the first [...]
I’d hoped to be writing an Old Friends feature on blues legend B.B. King in this week’s issue – he and his band are performing in the Islands. But when MidWeek requested an interview, B.B.’s response through a publicist was, “I’m 85, I’m done doing interviews.” To which I responded, “Can’t blame him.” Besides, I’ve [...]
What follows is a column I wrote after a visit to Japan in February and March, one of the greatest vacation weeks of my life, which included one of my best birthday celebrations. But eight days after I departed Tokyo, just as MidWeek was ready to go to press, the March 11 earthquake and tsunami [...]
It was a sunny Saturday in February 1998 when I sat down with Frenchy DeSoto at Makua beach – as informal a setting for a MidWeek cover story interview as any. She was, at the time, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs chairwoman. Make that the outspoken and often controversial OHA chairwoman. Hearing news of her [...]
Starting up a new publication – and I’ve been involved in at least six over the years – is a lot like giving birth to a child. OK, easy for me to say – I’m a guy. But speaking as a father, there are parallels to the way you worry and fret over a newborn. [...]
There’s been a lot of talk recently about the size of government – recently, in this case, meaning since about, oh, 1776. Today’s Tea Party folks seem to think that big, bloated government is the root of all that ails us. President Obama seems to think that there is no problem too big (or small) [...]
Welcome to the inaugural issue of MidWeek Kaua’i. We’re excited because it’s the first time Oahu’s best-read newspaper has been available on another island. For some readers this will be an all-new experience. For others it’s more like, “Eh, about time already!” I know this because just about every time I’ve visited Kaua’i in the [...]
