On Wednesday evening, May 22, 2024, the Politics Hawaii with Stan Fichtman blog formally discontinued any further use of “X” (formally known as Twitter).
But for my first effort, I will be straight with you. – I wrote a sloppy piece that should have never seen the light of “e-day” (when it gets published on the website). And I am happy that I got called out, forcing me to take it down.
There was no bread broken between the Senators and the University of Hawaii at the HISSI conference. And judging by the efforts of Senators to try and “make peace”, it would seem that there is a long way to go on that front, too.
The three questions, and the answers I gave, helped reaffirm to me the notion that, yes, this place we call home, either in our heart or as a concept, is still worth the investment we make into it.
It still is worth it.
I realized that Pono was way more than what his resume said he was capable of. This guy was a deep thinker and had a very tuned ear as to how things were in Hawaii above and beyond so many others in various leadership positions.
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AND NOW we are being told that the saga might be over. As this is written, letters are going out from employers informing employees that they should plan to return to the office and that social norms that were created to address the crisis will be rescinded with a timeline to match.
With the news coming out of this, all one needs to do is go on social media to see how widespread people’s opinions are of this development. Some are enthusiastic, never seeing the event as a permanent thing and never allowing the changes to change them.
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