Cybersecurity Experts Exchange Tricks Of The Trade In Honolulu
When Muks Hirani got the call to go to Saudi Arabia in November, he knew it was serious. The Dubai-based cybersecurity consultant had heard about the re-emergence of the Shamoon virus, which an...
View ArticleRepurpose The Rail Guideway Into A Skyway
Rail is now expected to cost at least $10 billion, which is more than double the original estimate. Furthermore, the city admits that rail operations and maintenance would have to be subsidized by...
View ArticleHawaii Soldier Held Without Bail On Terrorism Charges
(AP) A U.S. soldier accused of wanting to commit a mass shooting after pledging loyalty to the Islamic State group believed the moon landing was faked, questioned the assassination of President John F....
View ArticleSchatz Announces Big Increase In Military Spending For Hawaii
Hawaii appears likely to snag at least $266 million in military construction projects in fiscal year 2018, up from $197 million last year, according to U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, ranking member of the...
View ArticleJudge Grants Hawaii’s Request On Refugees In Travel Ban
The Hawaii judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s revised executive order on immigration in March placed limits Thursday on how the scaled-back version of the travel ban should be enforced. In a...
View ArticleNo Relief In Sight For High Cost Of Prison Phone Calls
Five years ago, when her nephew was sentenced to a second stint in prison in Arizona, Blu Dux began a twice-a-week ritual of talking to him on the phone. To make it work, Dux had to set up a landline...
View ArticleHow Spam Became One Of The Most Iconic Businesses Of All Time
While you might think of Spam as a basic canned meat, it’s actually one of the greatest business success stories of all time: Since Hormel Foods Corp. launched the affordable, canned pork product in...
View ArticleHawaii Teacher: Socrates Had It All Wrong On Technology And Education
Two teachers discuss the new technology their students are obsessing over. One states that people are taking it too seriously to fully understand the issues and dangers that come with it. The second...
View ArticleWe’re Causing Climate Change, And We Need To Fix It
I went to the beach today. Well, actually, I biked past it on my way home from work. It seems I don’t get in the water nearly as much as I would like these days, for a combination of reasons. Little...
View ArticleThe Scramble To Recruit New Teachers — And Keep Them In Hawaii
Kaitlyn Cleveland was halfway through her first year teaching fourth grade at Solomon Elementary School in Wahiawa earlier this year when she entertained the idea of leaving Hawaii to go back to the...
View ArticleMost High-Rise Residents Will Be Allowed To Return After Deadly Fire
(AP) Karen Hastings was in her 31st floor Honolulu apartment when she smelled smoke. She ran out to her balcony, looked down, and saw flames five floors below her. “The fire just blew up and went...
View ArticleCaldwell Supports Adding Sprinklers To Older High-Rises In Wake Of Fire
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Friday called for legislation requiring the retrofitting of older residential high-rises with fire sprinklers after a blaze in Honolulu killed three people. “I think...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: Issuing Bonds For Rail Increases City’s Liability
On June 7, Honolulu City Council members approved the concept of using bond funding to keep the Honolulu rail project on track. On Tuesday, they actually authorized the issuance of $350 million in...
View ArticleVictim In Honolulu Fire Remembered As Talented And Caring
(AP) — As smoke filled his 26th-floor apartment in Honolulu, a Hawaiian Airlines manager made one final telephone call to his brother, the brother says, before both the man and his mother were killed...
View ArticleWhy Is A High-Tech Agency Building A Center For Cops And Rescue Workers?
When the Legislature created the High Technology Development Corp., it granted broad powers to fulfill a lofty vision: develop industrial parks for “biotechnology, software, computers,...
View ArticleThis Group Is Helping The Needy By Rescuing Tons Of Food
Almost every morning before sunrise, Aloha Harvest trucks head out to pick up their first food donations of the day. From Monday through Saturday, drivers can be found hauling food from about 40...
View ArticleReader Rep: Don’t Let Technology Replace Your Own Good Sense
Marooned in a place without cellular coverage and internet access for just a day, I recently suffered through a kryptonetic weakening of all of my cognitive systems. Off-grid and no longer with instant...
View ArticleAlan McNarie: Big Island Crime Problems Seem Bigger On Social Media
There’s a crime wave happening on the Big Island — or at least on its Facebook pages such as BigIslandThieves, which has more than 30,000 members, and on community pages such VolcanoAloha and HPP Next...
View ArticleSay Aloha To Suevon Lee, Civil Beat’s New Education Reporter
While reporting a recent story about teacher recruiting, new Civil Beat education reporter Suevon Lee got a fast lesson of her own in the persistent challenges facing Hawaii’s public schools. Suevon...
View ArticleThe New Normal Of The State Of Solar In Hawaii
For anyone in sales, there are two existential questions that need to be posed and answered: what’s the market for what one is peddling and how much of a share of that market can one expect to capture?...
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