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