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Jay Fidell

Jay Fidell is founder, president and CEO of ThinkTech Hawaii, Inc. He is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and NYU Law School where he took an LLB (JD) in 1965 and an LLM in Taxation in 1971. Jay served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a lawyer and military judge from 1965 to 1971. He was first assigned to Honolulu and then to New York City. He returned to private practice in Hawaii in 1971.

He was a founder of the firm later known as Bendet Fidell Sugimura and practiced business law there until 2012, when he retired after 40 years of active practice. In the year 2001, Jay founded ThinkTechHawaii and produced a radio show by that name on HPR from 2001 through 2008. He then moved on to producing video talk shows and then created ThinkTech Studios. He likes to interview talk show guests, but more than anything he is dedicated to the electronics, programming and studio systems that make ThinkTech run.

The Decline of Leadership in America (Keeping the World Company)

The Dynamics of Social-psychology. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. The show is expected to include the following discussion: Our panel discusses the failure and consequences of the decline of leadership in America; the social-psychological aspects of that decline; how they lead to political and […]

How Foreign Countries Paid up $8M to Trump (American Issues Take One)

Constitution Prohibition of Gifts Ignored. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. The guest is Chuck Crumpton. When you rent your house out for $4,000 per month but the party wishing to rent insists on paying $6,000, is the extra $2,000 a gift or a stroke of good luck? The answer […]

Comparison of Crimes in Canada and the US (View from the North)

For Public Safety, Where Would You Prefer. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Dr. Ken Rogers, retired Canadian businessman, helps us understand the comparison of crime between Canada and the U.S. and the factors that go into that comparison. There is more violent crime in the US, but […]

Why we Need to Raise Taxes on the Rich (Community Matters)

But How Likely will that be Politically. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roger Epstein. Why we need to raise taxes on the rich, and how unlikely that will be. How Republicans confused their constituents by telling them they benefited from the 2017 tax act, and that giving IRS more […]

Putin is Undermining Western / US Hegemony (Keeping the World Company)

Is his Strategy Sustainable and is it Working. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Our panel discusses Putin’s strategy of undermining Western / US hegemony by multipronged attacks: military, disinformational, and by proxy, and the extent to which that damages Ukraine, the US and liberal world order and […]

Update on the War Against Ukraine (Global Connections)

Where is this War Going. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker helps us understand the current status of the War Against Ukraine. Air attacks seem to be heating up on both sides. Who does this favor? The Russian public seems to have come around to accepting […]

In 2024 SCOTUS May Decide Trump’s Future (American Issues Take One)

Trump on Ballots or Immunity in Question. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. Maine and Colorado will not allow Trump on the 2024 election ballot. Other states will. The US Supreme Court will need to determine if a patchwork of state decisions will determine Trump’s eligibility to be a presidential […]

Why this Hanukkah is Different from all Others (How this World is Changing)

And why it May Never be the Same. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Itchel Krasnjansky. The war in Israel and the anti-semitic protest in the U.S. are having an effect on the meaning and celebration of Hanukah. Rabbi Krasnjansky helps us understand what that effect is, here and in […]

The Global Demise of Civil Society (Keeping the World Company)

What Can we Do About it. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Did you Erasure of Civil Society around the world to what extent is it happening and how does it affect us we see the erosion of governmental and non-governmental institutions Civil Society eroding […]

Reviewing Killers of the Flower Moon (Movies We Can Learn From)

A True Story of the Osage Indians. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Stephanie Dalton. Our panel reviews an award winning Martin Scorsese movie about the treatment of the Osage Indians in the 1920’s in Okahoma. The movie features outstanding performances by Leonardo Dicaprio, Robert Deniro, and Lily Gladstone, and […]

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- The Associated Press
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- Michael Scaturro
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- Justine McDaniel

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