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The Long Vacation: Life On The Clean Streets Of LA
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Make It Easier, Not Harder, To Access Hawaii’s Public Records
The Washington Post drew mixed reactions when it adopted a new motto earlier this year, “Democracy Dies In Darkness.” Critics deemed it melodramatic and likened it to the title of a Batman movie. But...
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Man Who Disrupted Hawaii Flight Found Mentally Competent To Stand Trial
(AP) — A Turkish man accused of inflight behavior that prompted bomb-threat procedures and U.S. military fighter jets to escort the American Airlines plane to Hawaii is mentally competent to stand...
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Kin Of Fallen Japanese Soldiers Pay Respects At Pearl Harbor
(AP) — Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II visited Pearl Harbor on Thursday to pay respects to fallen American soldiers. Nippon Izokukai, the Bereaved Family Association...
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Hawaiian Charter School Concerns Dominate OHA Meeting
A controversial decision by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs to contract with a new organization to manage $1.5 million in annual funding to Native Hawaiian charter schools drove opponents of the move to...
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Controversial Pesticide Remains Unregulated In Hawaii
The chemical weed killer dicamba is so controversial that it has spawned a federal class-action lawsuit against its manufacturers, California restricts its use on farms and Arkansas has temporarily...
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Rail, Faux Democracy And Real Leadership
The debate and actions over Honolulu rail has exposed to its ugly core the current status of political leadership in Hawaii. In short, there is none. Yes, the leadership in the state Senate and House...
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Health Beat: The Tricks Drugmakers Use To Keep Prices High
Pharmaceutical companies invest billions of dollars in research and development to find new medications to treat diseases and hopefully save lives. Given the fact that on average only one in 5,000...
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Hawaii Would Lose Big If Obamacare Repealed
The latest Republican move to repeal the Affordable Care Act and instead pay states to shape their own systems would hit Hawaii particularly hard, according to health care analysts. The legislation...
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Chad Blair: Schatz On Wrong Side Of Vote To Debate Endless War
Hawaii’s senior U.S. senator, Brian Schatz, is growing more outspoken on issues that concern him and the state. In recent weeks he has been very vocal in the press and on social media denouncing the...
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Federal Government Notifies 21 States Of Election Hacking Attempts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states that hackers targeted their systems before last year’s presidential election. The notification came roughly a...
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Tom Yamachika: Harbors Soak Taxpayers, Again And Again
In a prior article, we reported that last December, administrative rules were finalized that wrought significant increases in fees charged by the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division. Those...
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Reader Rep: When Journalists Join The Sales Team, Credibility Suffers
In an era of “fake news” taunts, with the credibility of journalists under assault from all angles, KITV made a mistake in arranging to send its anchors and reporters on sponsored cruises this fall and...
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Kaimuki: Sprucing Up A Business District That ‘Totally Depends On Local’
The trick, says Sharon Schneider, is to keep Kaimuki “cool and funky, but not scruffy.” So some merchants are sprucing up the storefronts along the community’s Waialae Avenue business district — in...
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Brittany Lyte: The Deadliest Beach On Kauai Might Surprise You
In May 1964, Frank Sinatra nearly drowned in Wailua Bay. While on Kauai to film the WWII flick, “None But the Brave,” Ol’ Blue Eyes dipped into the ocean fronting the old Coco Palms Resort (where Elvis...
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Pod Squad: Don Guzman Talks About Why He Wants To Be Maui Mayor
Three-term Maui County Councilman Don Guzman wants to replace term-limited Mayor Alan Arakawa. Guzman joins Pod Squad host Chad Blair to talk about the rocky relationship between Arakawa and the...
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Vietnam On Our Minds
For a lot of folks in my generation, “boomers” or a little older, Vietnam means an “era,” not just a country or even a war. It’s what William Butler Yeats meant when in 1919 he wrote: … Things fall...
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Retail Shops On Hawaii Farmland: Kauai Dispute Could Set A Precedent
When LBD Coffee requested a permit to build a facility to sell cigars and coffee on its Kapaa agriculture land in 2014, it might have seemed like a straightforward request. Two years before, the...
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Hawaii Must Prepare As Trump And Kim Continue Their Dangerous Game
It is both bizarre and ludicrous that the fate of the world may hinge on name-calling and deranged rhetoric between the “Rocket Man” and the “Dotard.” And yet that is precisely the position we find...
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Honolulu Police Commissioner Resigns Over Chief Selection Process
(AP) — A member of the Honolulu Police Commission is resigning after raising concerns about a lack of diversity in the process of selecting the department’s next chief. Luella Costales, appointed to...
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