“Finding Truth in the Age of Uncertainty; what’s a citizen to do?”

Doug Carlson studied journalism at the University of Iowa and Northwestern University, then went on active duty for five years as a US Army Military Intelligence Officer. His tours included West Berlin and South Vietnam.

After leaving the service in 1969, he began a 50-year career in journalism and communications. Doug worked in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and in 1973, came to Honolulu to report for the Honolulu Advertiser and KGMB-TV. Station owner Cec Heftel asked Doug to join his 1976 congressional campaign as press secretary, and after Heftel’s election, Doug continued in the same role in Washington.

After five years with the congressman, Doug joined Hawaiian Electric Company as its manager of corporate communications and  in 1982 introduced Oahu residents to the concept of “rolling blackouts” after Hurricane Iwa .

Doug was a media consultant for 19 years until he and his Rotarian wife Lennie moved in 2012 to Sacramento, where he joined the public affairs staff of the California Department of Water Resources. Doug retired in 2018 and recently moved with Lennie to Meridian, Idaho.