NOTE, PLEASE: This will be my last post for a few days. At 10:00 tonight I’m leaving Toronto on VIA Rail’s premier train, The Canadian. It’s a four-night trip and of course I’ll make notes and take some photographs as we go, but I really have no idea if I’ll be able to post anything…
When I stepped off the plane here for the first time—it was in May of 1962—Honolulu was a very small town. Not so much in terms of population, which was about 400,000 at the time, but everybody knew everybody else. Certainly that was true for the business community and, to a lesser extent, it still…
I’ve been in Hawaii for more than 53 years, but I still remember what winter is like for you folks back east. You get up and go to work in the dark, the days are grey, it’s dark again by the time you’re driving home. Sometimes it’s cold; the rest of the time it’s “freeze-ass”…
Everyone in Boston, from the mayor on down to the shop owners on trendy Newberry Street, is agog over the news that General Electric will be moving its corporate headquarters to that city from suburban Fairfield, Connecticut. To locate it a bit more precisely for you, GE will be relocating to a waterfront area in…