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