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BY JODI WILMOTT - Banzai Pipeline, Oahu, HAWAII -- Hawaii's John John Florence started surfing the deadly Banzai Pipeline at age eight and barely four feet tall -- about the same time the surfing world's spotlight fell in love with him. Ten years later, at 18 years of age and heaped with expectation, he proved [...]
REPORT BY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is issuing a revised list of recalled products manufactured by First Commercial Kitchen LLC based on new information received today. The previous list should be disregarded and replaced by this list. The DOH is aware that records provided by First Commercial Kitchen [...]
BY FRANCES NUAR — This week, the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii released the “The Real State of the State: An Uncensored Look at the Fiscal Challenges Facing Hawaii.” Responding to Governor Neil Abercrombie’s recent “State of the State” address which only scratched the surface, this illuminating expose dives deep into the evidence and causes of the [...]
BY MALIA HILL - When it comes to the pension situation in Hawaii, all news seems to be bad news. According to a recent article in the Hawaii Reporter, Hawaii ranks among the top 4 states in the nation for debt and pension burden. This is not exactly the kind of accomplishment that should have us [...]
BY MICHAEL R. FOX PHD - The president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus has offered some remarkable observations about environmentalism and global warming and how the measures currently being proposed to curb climate change are a threat to human freedom. Klaus’s advice is especially important to Americans. I estimate there are at least two generations of [...]
BY TERI TICO - With Hawaii's journalism shield bill sun setting this year, I support a permanent journalist shield law for Hawaii journalists. Approximately two-thirds of all States, and the District of Columbia, have various forms of journalist shield laws in effect, recognizing that we cannot have fair and unbiased news reporting without some sort [...]
BY J. ARTHUR RATH III - Known as “Sad Sam Ichinose,” Hawaii’s most important boxing promoter during that sport’s “hay days,” was also a County Legislator, who ran a bar. He’d use colorful local-style English when speaking in the Territorial Legislature, often scratching his nose to punctuate a phrase. This made listeners guffaw. Contemporary legislators [...]
BY HAWAII REPORTER - Liquid Robotics Inc., a Silicon Valley start up that maintains its oceans operations base on the Big Island, has obtained $18 million in funding, according to a filing at the U.S. Securities and Enforcement Administration. The funding is yet another milestone for the Sunnyvale, California-based company that is developing an unmanned [...]
BY GREG WILES - The city’s $5.5 billion rail transit project has been hit with a lawsuit, while 10 community groups are calling for a rethinking of the proposed 20-mile heavy rail line. The lawsuit is being filed on the behalf of Paulette Kaanohi Kaleikini, a native Hawaiian who says she is a cultural and [...]
Two measures that would make permanent the news media “shield law” enacted last year have been introduced in the state House of Representatives. The law, now due to expire June 30, protects news reporters from disclosing sources of information used in the gathering of stories. State Rep. Gene Ward, R-17th (Kalama Valley, Queen's Gate, Hawaii [...]
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