As the person who tends the heiau that line Wailua bay and river, Jim Alalem has a special sense about the region’s cultural value. “It’s the most sacred area on Kauai,” he said. “No place else on Kauai but there were kings born. That’s where the first… [»Read]
A Punahou education and childhood in Kahala didn’t prevent Connie Geisler from becoming homeless. But thanks to help from places like the Institute of Human Services and downtown’s River of Life Mission, Geisler was able to fight her drug addiction and get back on… [»Read]
It’s a perfect summery Friday morning at Ala Moana Beach Park, just past 7am, and there are dozens of swimmers working their way through the water in elegant backstrokes, perfect-form freestyles and methodical breaststrokes. Among them are surfers paddling in and out… [»Read]
For three days in June nearly 100 Oahu high school students gathered in Kahana Valley to become part of growing movement in Hawaii and throughout the world. But instead of protesting the WTO or the war in Iraq, these teens were taking on Hawaii’s dependence on… [»Read]
I have driven the future, and it works. In this case, the future takes the form a tiny electric sports car with phenomenal acceleration that uses a third of the energy of an equivalent sports car. If you have solar panels at your home connected to a bank of batteries, you… [»Read]
It’s already happened to thousands of small towns across the country: A highway bypass is built around a town, ostensibly to speed up traffic. The property where the bypass diverges from the old highway suddenly becomes prime commercial real estate. Shopping centers are… [»Read]
When the post-WWII political history of Hawaii is cemented, former Lt. Gov. Tom Gill is a figure whose story should be remembered, retold and revered. Gill, who died last week, played a key role in the “Democratic revolution” of 1954, which shifted the Islands’… [»Read]
The most significant ways in which the landscape of any food and drink scene changes over time can be traced back to where the food comes from in the first place. And it’s true that we’ve seen incredible changes in local agriculture over the years. Hard to believe,… [»Read]
The United States, which likes to think of itself as the most enlightened of fishing nations, is coming under heavy criticism in the Western Pacific for contributing to the demise of some of the world’s last great tuna stocks–a remarkable accusation for an administration… [»Read]
With Micah Kane in the running for Kamehameha Schools trustee, his record in managing the Hawaiian Home Lands trust is coming under public scrutiny. Kane, formerly a Building Industry Association lobbyist and head of the Hawaii Republican Party, was named chairman of… [»Read]
What’s to be done when the state doesn’t follow its own rules? And not just the state, but county agencies and the majority of other holders of water use permits? The question arises in the course of reading the recent report by the Commission on Water Resource Management… [»Read]
It all happens so quickly. The steer is stunned with a captive bolt gun to the head and drops to the floor. Within seconds, its hind legs are chained, it’s hung upside down, and the jugular is cut. In less than a minute, the steer is bled out. It’s then beheaded, dehooved,… [»Read]
Half of the legal fees awarded in a lawsuit that challenged the state over how its agencies handled the Big Island’s Hokulia real estate development project must be given to the state under the Legislature’s funding plan for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs…. [»Read]
It’s only day one of the Senate hearings on whether the federal government should intervene to help resuscitate the flailing newspaper industry and even we’re sick of it already. Of course we love newspapers. We are absolutely despondent to think of their demise… [»Read]
Despite whisperings to the contrary among the maritime community, the Falls of Clyde can stay at its present downtown location without paying rent for the indefinite future and is in no danger of sinking, according to multiple sources. Bruce McEwan, president of… [»Read]
