Chad Blair has been a writer, editor and teacher in Honolulu for more than 25 years. His job as reporter and editor is to cover Hawaii, especially how political decisions impact people and communities.
Chad has worked as a journalist for Pacific Business News, Hawaii Public Radio and Honolulu Weekly. He has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu Community College, Hawaii Pacific University and Chaminade University of Honolulu.
A “military brat,” Chad was born on an Army base in Alabama and later lived with his family in Germany, Illinois, Nebraska and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where he edited the school newspaper. He also minored in Spanish and studied for a semester in Mexico.
Chad worked for a year on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, where he tracked satellites for the U.S. Air Force/NORAD. He then earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American studies from UH Manoa. His dissertation, “Democracy in Hawaii: Class, Race and Gender in Local Politics” (1996), was published as “Money, Color and Sex in Hawaii Politics” (Mutual Publishing; 1998).
You can reach him by email at cblair@civilbeat.org or follow him on Twitter at @chadblairCB.
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Monday, February 15Chad Blair: Are House Lawmakers Out To Get Josh Green?
Sunday, February 7Chad Blair: Is Scott Saiki The De Facto Governor Of Hawaii?
Monday, February 1Chad Blair: Who’s Leading The Hawaii House GOP? Nobody Knows
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Monday, January 25Chad Blair: New Progressive Caucus Hopes To Be A Force At The Legislature
Monday, January 4Chad Blair: Advocates Again Pushing For Automatic Voter Registration