When there isn't much news about our situation, folks in the newsroom rely instead on bits and pieces of information, speculation, scenarios reified into rumor, comments taken out of context, and other flights of fancy. Yesterday was no exception. Then more gloom and doom speculation. There are so many possible combinations when it comes to bad news. This self-portrait with my wife, Meda, was taken yesterday at sunrise on the beach in Kaaawa.
Strange things happen around the winter solstice, they say.
Cook was 40 years old, and the ship was given the hopeful name of 'Endeavour'. December 23, Thursday It's over. Unless things changed dramatically overnight, which in this situation is always a possibility. Unless extended by mutual agreement today, the agreement lapses. Gannett officials in the company's Virginia headquarters were unavailable for comment, and Mike Fisch, who heads the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, said he wasn't even in the loop on this decision.