Just Thoughts expresses Bob Jones’ views on social and political issues facing the state of Hawaii, and the nation. Bob Jones is a former newspaper reporter, NBC News foreign correpondent, and reporter-anchor-news manager at KGMB-TV. He has lived in Hawaii since 1963.


Below are the last 5 columns written by Bob Jones

Trade Center Suit A Sad Commentary

Wednesday - March 17, 2010
By Bob Jones

All I can think about this one is “Oh, my God, America, what have we come to?”

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How To Deal With Sex Offenders?

Wednesday - March 10, 2010
By Bob Jones

I get so mad each time a child or a woman is killed by a repeat sex offender that I could chew and swallow nails!

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Questioning Scouts On God, Gays

Wednesday - March 03, 2010
By Bob Jones

The Hawaii Boy Scouts are 100 years old. It was 1910 when local artist-businessman David Howard Hitchcock organized Troop 1 and took the boys on a train trip from Aala Park to Pearl City for a 10-day hike into Waipio Valley.

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Odd Couple: Hamamoto, Saint Louis

Wednesday - February 24, 2010
By Bob Jones

Pat Hamamoto as public schools superintendent wasn’t up to winning the wrestling matches with unhappy parents, the teachers’ and principals’ unions, and confronting a Mad Hatter gathering of Board of Education members elected by voters wearing blindfolds in the ballot booths.

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Soldier On, Gen. Fred Weyand

Wednesday - February 17, 2010
By Bob Jones

Fred Weyand was constantly on my mind last month as I traveled the length of Vietnam. the old war zone that occupied much of my working and personal life in my late 20s and early 30s.

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