As a business writer with The Honolulu Advertiser for a decade, I've had too many unpleasant occasions covering the shutdown of venerable companies.
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The federally funded refrigerator rebate program offering $250 to Hawai'i consumers who replace old fridges with new energy efficient models is winding down and likely will be exhausted in another week or two.
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I got my first taste of business reporting as an Advertiser intern in 1981.
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Hospice Hawai'i exists to help patients and families "experience a meaningful end-of-life journey."
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After decades of speculation as to which daily would survive, tomorrow the Star-Advertiser will be "it," and will inherit the circulation of both. It will be a broadsheet, and will in that way remind us of The Advertiser, rest its soul.
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SAN FRANCISCO It used to be that the only time you'd notice a bar code was at a store, maybe when a cashier scanned your groceries. But lately bar codes are showing up in more places around town and getting more sophisticated.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. One chapter is closing and another is opening as Stanford University moves toward the creation of its first "bookless library."
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We have a running joke at The Advertiser Local News Desk when an editor leaves for home anytime from, say, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., which we consider early. The editors still on the desk will call out, "You go on. Have a good time. Don't worry about us. We'll put the paper out."
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Several events and memories stand out from the experience of covering business and government in Hawai'i.
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This is my final piece for The Honolulu Advertiser, and like half of the things I've written here, is being done on deadline.
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