Act 114, instituting a series of minimum wage increases in the Aloha State.
Raising min wage to $18/HR by 2028.
Now Hawaii is trying to pass a Bill that will allow each county to decide what the minimum wage would coinside to the cost of luving is for each district and base the minimum wage close to that assessment.
This is the 1st State to set the minimum wage to the cost of living.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/09/21/proposal-allow-coun…
Hawaii is the most expensive state in which to live, with a cost index of 193 vs 100 in Florida, or 91 in Michigan. In case you missed it, the “Magnum PI” TV series was cancelled, not for ratings, which were quite good, but for cost of location shooting in Hawaii.
Under the Act the minimum wage, which was last increased to $10.10 in 2018, will increase to $12.00 per hour on October 1, 2022; to $14.00 per hour on January 1, 2024; to $16.00 per hour on January 1, 2026; and finally to $18.00 per hour on January 1, 2028.
https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hawaii-becomes-first-st…
Steve
Small businesses that can not afford to pay labor properly are a drain on society. Their inefficiencies are wasting resources that better run business could have utilized.
Then there is growing the economy. The states with low minimum wages are generally poorer states. That is a leadership problem. I get it is cozy for corrupt politicians and fooled people to think “using” people will win the day. It is an economic failure.
Just for the record, Magnum PI was uncanceled and is filming now. We all good heah!
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2022/09/19/it-was-fans-after-b…
The cost of living is regional, even here in Hawaii. That’s the purpose of the current Bill that would allow counties to set their own minimum wage. There’s a big difference in the cost of living from Kailua-Kona to Kaua?i County.
The same is true of a Big State like California. San Francisco is The most expensive place to live in the United States.
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2019/09/13/what-it-actu…
Susanville California is cheaper than Sandpoint ID. Hawaii is trying to address the root problem of COL by overlooking the overall State’s COL and focusing on each county.
I’m enjoying Hawaii for September, I love the People of Maui. I hope they get what they deserve.
“Just for the record, Magnum PI was uncanceled and is filming now. We all good heah!”
You are kidding, right??
JimA
Or am I really that old!
“Just for the record, Magnum PI was uncanceled and is filming now. We all good heah!”
On a different network, iirc, NBC, vs CBS. A whole 10 episodes/season.
Or am I really that old!
Yes, you are that old. We are talking about the reboot Magnum. Can’t do the 80s series anymore. Hillerman and Mosley have both died. Mosley did occasional appearances on both the reboot Five-O and Magnum, as a barber, and Nam vet.
Opening sequence for the reboot Magnum. Like the Five-O reboot, they kept the original music, but shortened the credits several seconds from the originals…no doubt to make room for more commercials. The reboot had noticeable cost cutting compared to the 80s series from the start. We never saw an exterior shot of the “Masters estate”, only a couple interior sets. The original series always had establishing exterior shots of the estate and a significant amount of many stories took place on the estate grounds. That Hughes 500D got pretty rare in the last season too. Apparently, CBS figured that yet another “Bachelorettes who think they can dance”, even with mediocre ratings will be more profitable, because they cost peanuts to produce. Onward, schlock product!
Magnum P.I.: Season One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LniIHW_fgSg
Steve
Opening sequence for the reboot Magnum. Like the Five-O reboot, they kept the original music, but shortened the credits several seconds from the originals…no doubt to make room for more commercials. The reboot had noticeable cost cutting compared to the 80s series from the start. We never saw an exterior shot of the “Masters estate”, only a couple interior sets. The original series always had establishing exterior shots of the estate and a significant amount of many stories took place on the estate grounds. That Hughes 500D got pretty rare in the last season too. Apparently, CBS figured that yet another “Bachelorettes who think they can dance”, even with mediocre ratings will be more profitable, because they cost peanuts to produce. Onward, schlock product!
I was a huge fan of the original, but just couldn’t get into the reboot. For one, the original Magnum character was all brash and cocky on the outside, but on the inside he was kind of insecure. He’d take advantage of his friends. He’d get whiney. He’d do the wrong thing. In short, he was an actual human. The new guy just seems to act cool all the time.
In the couple episodes I watched, they didn’t do any real detective work. Higgins would just pull info off the internet. Boom! Crime solved. Yawn.
And let’s keep in mind (spoiler alert): Higgins is Robin Masters. I don’t see how that works in the reboot.
Finally, I’m a musician (guitar) and my biggest musical influences are 70’s and 80’s TV cop show theme songs. The original Magnum theme was genius, anchored the great Larry Carlton ripping a driving a two-note guitar riff. It is just badass. The reboot guitar guy is okay, but he’s just not as good. And they chop up the theme to make it shorter, but it is no longer a coherent piece of music. Really, an abomination in comparison to the original.
P.S. Probably the greatest TV cop show theme is Streets of San Francisco Season 4. Why Season 4? Because it features Larry Carlton (again) going completely off the hook on the wah-wah pedal. In early seasons he’s kind of subdued (but deeply cool), but in Season 4 he goes completely nuts. One of the greatest wah pedal guitar parts ever recorded IMO, surpassing the Theme from Shaft (played by Skip Pitts).
Tragically, in a bizarre crime against humanity, some Hollywood suit decided there should be a voice over during the completely insane Tom Scott sax solo. I’m generally against the death penalty, but that guy kinda deserves it.
And they chop up the theme to make it shorter
That is a function of our hyperdrive attention span change over the years. Producers think (and are probably right) that a long repetitive musical opening is a chance for somebody to think “Gee, I wonder what else is on?”
Netflix affords you the opportunity to “skip titles”. Reboots and remakes come with shorter openings. (Generally speaking “pilots” come with no openings at all, the better to not distract network suits from losing their concentration.)
If “All In The Family” debuted today, no way they’d let Carrol O’Connor and Jean Stapleton sit there singing at a piano for a full minute.
Blame Facebook. Or the iPhone. Or Videogames. Or something. Things go faster now. It’s not better, it’s just faster. The news cycle used to last a few days. It’s down to hours. Soon it will be minutes. It’s an avalanche of options, and somehow we keep thinking that’s better.
The real problem is how to just contact anyone.
My business partnership is ready now to get to work. There are four of us. First thing do we set up a Whatsapp channel? Nope! One of the guys wont do anything FB. What to do? We will set up a text list for the four of us. Okay. But it has been several months of texting here and there with limited responses. People who only use texts to communicate get inundated with texts and do not see all the texts. Our CEO could be texting day and night to keep up with all his contacts. The other three of us not so much. The partner who did not want to use FB products gets into major projects and ignores most of his texts till “later”. That does leave the two of us, the technical partner and myself the designing partner, to make this work. The other two partners have two different functions that come into play in a different way. Both of these partners mentioned using emails, but that has been just one more channel they ignore been there trying this.
Tragically, in a bizarre crime against humanity, some Hollywood suit decided there should be a voice over during the completely insane Tom Scott sax solo. I’m generally against the death penalty, but that guy kinda deserves it.
That “suit” was producer Quinn Martin. His shows always had a voice over in the opening. I really enjoy the opening music on “12 O’Clock High”, but, it is also a Quinn Martin production, so has the voice over in the opening.
12 O’Clock High (Intro) S1 (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TUVBLG67Lg
The end credits didn’t have the voice over, but, when broadcast, the network would inject a voice over promoting other shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ6E2qf1lMg
A lot of the credit for the “Magnum” theme goes to Mike Post and Pete Carpenter. Their body of work in the 80s was large, “Hill Street”, “The Greatest American Hero”, “Tales of the Gold Monkey”, to name a few. I hated “Quantum Leap”, but I would tune in to listen to the music, then go to another channel.
Ever see “Key West”? Really offbeat show, with nice music. I enjoyed it, so, of course, it died a quick death.
Key West Episode 1 Pilot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkhr9M_h8Q
Steve
You might consider Signal. It is encrypted. There are both phone and desktop versions. The interface is much nicer than text, especially on the desktop. It is easy to incorporate images. And, having a separate channel might make it easier for people to keep track.