Please click on this Hawaii politics blog to help us retain our one good journalist next week.

Our two newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin, are becomming one entity next week. In the wasteland that political reporting has become, there is only one political writer here who is consistently fair and informed.

The new owners are reviewing the blogs to decide who to keep and who to release. Please click on Derrick DePledge's blog http://thenotebook.honadvblogs.com/ to help his voice remain available to our people.

I don't always agree with him, but without him, we basically have no political reporting. And we all know how much that hurts Democracy. Informed consent of the governed and all that obsolete stuff...

Thanks for taking a moment and helping!

(ps, that house race that Charles Djou won? We're taking it back in November.)

It looks a little pricey but it might be interesting.

I saw it on kitv but haven't done much on the site. I'm not sure what the tilt is supposed to be.

http://www.civilbeat.com/

I do appreciate his idea, and agree with the objective. I'm glad he brought Chad Blair on.

Sure will be interesting to see how it plays out...

My .02. Or 20.