
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
I’m out of town this month, so you can blister me when I’m back if I’m way off the mark in my guesses for the Sept. 18 primary election and winner-take-all mayor’s race.
Read Column>>There’s a major fuss about building a mosque near New York’s 9/11 ground zero despite the fact that Muslims already have a prayer room in that neighborhood and inside the Pentagon, about 80 feet from where that hijacked airliner hit.
Read Column>>I’m curious why people spend so much money on wrist watches.
Read Column>>I sided with various lawyers and the Hawaii State Bar Association having reservations about Katherine Leonard as chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court.
Read Column>>You might think that Lanai, population 3,000, on a robust tourism day would escape most of the tribulations of Oahu, Maui, Kaua’i and the Big Island.
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