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KILAUEA, KAUAI - Aurora Fehring Dingwall, 24, spent her life helping others. The Kauai resident was deeply struck by the December 2004 tsunami that wiped out beach lands throughout Asia, killing millions of people just after Christmas. Particularly concerned by what that terrible tragedy did to orphaned children left behind, she donated money to help the [...]
BY KENNETH R. CONKLIN, PH.D. -- The sovereignty possessed by Indian tribes is a source of frequent nasty disputes and lawsuits between tribal governments and state or local governments. In addition, tribal membership strips people of basic civil rights they would normally expect to have as Americans. Below are headlines and links to 13 news [...]
BY LOWELL L. KALAPA - Having had the opportunity to visit a number of Neighbor Islands this past year for a variety of purposes allowed a nostalgic, but insightful, look back into the successes and missteps of government in Hawaii. Holo holo to the Big Island reminded one that government cannot create jobs nor run [...]
CrimeStoppers and the Honolulu Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance for information regarding a homicide that occurred on December 28, 2011, at approximately 2:11 a.m. in the area of Kahai Street and Kalihi Street. A pedestrian found an unresponsive male lying in the middle of Kahai Street with stab wounds. The male expired at [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII — The Hawai‘i State Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) has launched a web-based directory of Green Employers as part of its Hawai‘i Green Jobs Initiative. Green employers—who work in areas such as renewable energy production and natural resource conservation—post profiles in the directory that describe their operations, specify their core occupations, [...]
Hawaii Journalist, John Heckathorn, died at 65 this week. The former editor of Honolulu Magazine and local food and entertainment columnist, had been working as a full time journalism professor at the Hawaii Pacific University. A. Kam Napier, editor of Honolulu Magazine, and Alyson Helwagen, publisher, issued a statement this week: "We are deeply saddened [...]
HANA, MAUI - On Friday December 23 at 4 P.M., two days before Christmas, the Phillips-Tehiva Family of Hana, Maui, received notification of “criminal trespass” eviction from their home, located on property which has been in the Phillips Family for more than 100 years. The action taken by Wells Fargo occurred after the Phillips-Tehiva Family filed [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII -- The Board of Trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs today approved a $1.5 million grant to fund Hawaiian-focused charter schools across the state. The funding for the 2011-2012 school year was awarded to the Kanu O Ka ’Āina Learning ’Ohana, which secured the OHA grant to help supplement the budgets of 17 Hawaiian-focused [...]
HONOLULU, HAWAII - The Hawaii State Senate today adopted a social media use policy. The Policy provides guidance to users, both internally and in the public. Currently, the use of social media in the public sector is a new and emerging phenomenon across the country. The Hawaii State Senate is one of the few state [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, one of the most powerful supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement, may be in the right place at the right time to protest with the Big Island branch of the movement, Occupy Hawaii Island. The former House Speaker is once again spending her holiday [...]
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