Editor’s Desk is the work of MidWeek editor Don Chapman.


Below are columns written by Don Chapman

A Nice Memento For Criminals

February 03, 2010
By Don Chapman

Hard to believe, but it’s been 15 years since MidWeek first published a CrimeStoppers’ Most Wanted Criminals cover story - quite shocking at the time for a publication known for publishing good news.

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Fireworks, Tiger, Painful Pineapple

January 13, 2010
By Don Chapman

Ah, tradition - or, do you hear what I hear?: A friend in Tokyo was shocked when I described in an e-mail about Honolulu fireworks on New Year’s Eve - bombs rattling windows, the sky filled with colorful explosions, smoke so thick it was tough to see houses a block away.

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The High Priests Wore Board Shorts

December 16, 2009
By Don Chapman

Medical evidence suggests sitting on the beach watching waves breaking on the shore lowers your blood pressure. Such has been my experience.

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BOE Members In It For The Dough

November 11, 2009
By Don Chapman

Where to start with what’s wrong with our public schools? How about a Board of Education where at least two members show up at their twice-monthly board meetings so they’ll be reported in the minutes as present - and thus collect their $100 stipend - and then often leave shortly thereafter.

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Creating Hawaii’s Favorite Paper

July 22, 2009
By Don Chapman

I’ll begin this column in MidWeek‘s 25th anniversary issue with the same anecdote I shared in my first column as MidWeek‘s editor in November 1994.

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