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• Fire at Puuanahulu landfill continues to smolder

  15-11-2014 22:33
  
  Crews worked to mop-up a fire that broke out early Saturday at the West Hawaii Sanitary Landfill in Puuanahulu. The fire, located in the dump’s green waste area, was still smoldering Saturday evening, and firefighters said it was not clear what caused the blaze.
  
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• Suspect in CEO’s Killing Had Discussed His Health Struggles on Reddit

  10-12-2024 20:19 via nytimes.com
  
  In posts that stretch over years, he described debilitating back pain, “brain fog” in his college years and testing for irritable bowel syndrome.
  
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• Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Admissions, Gender Identity and Guns

  09-12-2024 19:39 via nytimes.com
  
  Conservative justices voiced objections and concerns about the court’s failures to take up a series of cases on major social controversies.
  
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• What to Know About Hannah Kobayashi, Who Was Reported Missing in California

  04-12-2024 22:50 via nytimes.com
  
  The search drew national attention after she flew from Maui to Los Angeles and did not board a connecting flight to New York. The police later said she had crossed into Mexico on foot.
  
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• Researchers Release Hawaiian Crows Back Into the Wild

  04-12-2024 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Researchers are trying a new strategy to reintroduce Hawaiian crows, which have been extinct in the wild for two decades.
  
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• Why Nutrition Research is Full of Crap

  04-12-2024 17:27 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  These days there are so many nutrition studies being vomited out to the public by the media that it’s just too much to swallow. And that’s a good thing, since they are junk food for your brain. There is a really big problem with nutrition research that makes it unreliable. It has to do with […]
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• 6 Warm Winter Getaways That Will Lift Your Spirits

  03-12-2024 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  Looking to take a break from the cold without traveling too far or spending too much? Here are some sunny, easy-to-reach places to beat the winter blahs.
  
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• Exploring Timor-Leste From the Air

  03-12-2024 00:29 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Exploring Timor-Leste From the Air is a stunning photography book featuring over 100 high-quality aerial images taken throughout this captivating, yet often overlooked, country. The book illustrates the variety and beauty of sights in Timor-Leste, including rice fields, traditional Timorese houses, Portuguese colonial architecture, mountains, beaches, rivers, markets, cemeteries, churches, wildlife, cities, and hamlets. This […]
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• Deferred Maintenance

  02-12-2024 17:00 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  One of the problems that has plagued Hawaii governments at all levels is “deferred maintenance.” Simply put, it means there’s stuff broken and there isn’t presently money to fix it, so it has to stay broken until some future time when the money is available. We’ve heard about deferred maintenance at the airport, at the […]
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• National Public Radio Interview with Rob Kay on Fiji

  02-12-2024 09:30 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  A few weeks ago I had the good fortune to be interviewed about Fiji by Tom Wilmer, on his “Journeys of Discovery” podcast for National Public Radio. Tom and I had both been members of the Society of American Travel Writers and the two of us had also been recipients of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism […]
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• Auli’i Cravalho es mucho más que Moana

  01-12-2024 22:08 via nytimes.com
  
  La película de Disney la convirtió en una estrella. Ahora Cravalho, a sus 24 años, vuelve a la secuela, mientras debuta en Broadway y acepta papeles más atrevidos.
  
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• Life on Oahu during World War II–a conversation with Bishop Museum Historian DeSoto Brown

  01-12-2024 03:31 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  by Tom Wilmer Editor’s Note from Rob Kay: As we get closer to yet another anniversary of December 7, 1942, I think it’s appropriate to post this interview that NPR podcaster Tom Wilmer conducted with Bishop Museum Historian and Curator of the Archives, DeSoto Brown. I met with Tom Wilmer earlier this year when he was […]
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• Auli’i Cravalho on ‘Moana 2’ and Making Her Broadway Debut

  30-11-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Moana” made her a breakout star. Now Cravalho, at 24, is back in the sequel, while also making her Broadway debut and embracing edgier parts.
  
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• 36 Hours in Honolulu: Things to Do and See

  28-11-2024 11:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Explore lush forest trails, midcentury architecture and tropical flavors in Hawaii’s multicultural capital.
  
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• Healthy, safe and eminently practical holiday gifts

  28-11-2024 11:01 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  It’s that time of the year again. What to get your significant other, friends and family? Here are some suggestions, based items I’ve reviewed over the past year… So let’s look at the newest product first. I’ve had about a month to review the Soundcore Space One Pro headphone ($200) from Anker. Essentially it does everything […]
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• Let’s hope third time won’t be lucky for efforts to impose ’empty home’ tax

  27-11-2024 02:37 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  By Keli’i Akina I’ve written in the past about how a so-called empty homes tax would be highly unlikely to solve Oahu’s housing crisis.  Twice in the past few years, bills to impose such a tax have been introduced at the Honolulu City Council, and twice those bills failed to gain traction. But the idea […]
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• Legislative History

  25-11-2024 17:00 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  In my role with the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and in private practice as a lawyer, I often have occasion to visit the Capitol website, capitol.hawaii.gov, to do research.  The more I have gotten to know the site, the more I understand that it has a great deal of resources to do legislative research. Legislative […]
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• Warning: Discovery of Anatomical Structure that Causes Breast Cancer

  23-11-2024 14:32 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer in women, and despite decades of research into the genetics and biochemistry of this disease, little progress has been made in prevention. This is mostly due to the lack of knowing the cause. You can’t prevent a disease without knowing the cause. However, we believe we discovered […]
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• Exploring Timor-Leste on Foot

  21-11-2024 09:45 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Exploring Timor-Leste on Foot: 30 incredible hikes in one of the least visited countries in the world is the first comprehensive hiking guide to Timor-Leste. One of the world’s newest countries, Timor-Leste offers an abundance of hiking opportunities for adventurous travellers. The country boasts some of Southeast Asia’s most spectacular scenery, with near 3,000-metre-high mountains, […]
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• Viking Security Safe VS-50SX — a great place to stash your valuables

  19-11-2024 23:12 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  In the scheme of things the Viking Security Safe VS-50SX is not the largest gun safe you’ll ever encounter. However, it may well be the handiest. At 19.7x W 13.8” x D 12.2” it approaches almost two cubic feet and it weighs in at 50 lbs. (It’s priced at $289 on Amazon). So, what’s the point? […]
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• Breast Cancer Research must make Dollars, and not just Sense

  19-11-2024 16:14 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Why is there still a breast cancer epidemic despite billions in research funding? In the pre-pandemic days, when we were able to focus on other diseases besides COVID, there were annual gala events to raise awareness, and funds, for breast cancer research. Literally billions of dollars went to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which made […]
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• Economic reform urgently needed to stem exodus from Hawaii

  18-11-2024 21:22 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  By Keli’i Akina I’m guessing most of us have heard about Hawaii’s net population decline in recent years. Prices here are high, housing is scarce, there are few job or business opportunities, and access to healthcare can be problematic. In short, Hawaii is seen as paradise, but it can be a tough place to live. […]
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• Charging Convenience Fees for Our Kids

  18-11-2024 17:00 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Back in the Dark Ages when I was going to public school here in Honolulu, I could get my school lunch for a quarter.  An extra half-pint carton of milk was a dime.  Nowadays, a school lunch costs $2.75 for most kids, and for those who qualify for low-income treatment, it costs 40 cents. But […]
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• Why Do Flowers Mean So Much to Us?

  14-11-2024 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Icons of beauty, providers of sustenance, even symbols of divinity — blossoming plants have assumed a deep significance to many cultures across the globe.
  
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• Vicky Holt Takamine Wins the Gish Prize

  13-11-2024 18:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Vicky Holt Takamine, a renowned teacher of hula dance and a champion for Indigenous culture, will receive a cash award of more than $450,000.
  
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• Lahaina Fire Settlement is Caught up in Legal Fight With Insurers

  13-11-2024 15:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Insurers that paid claims in Maui say a deal unfairly keeps them from recouping their own losses.
  
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• Tips for People with Noses

  12-11-2024 18:03 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  Some people smell well, and smell good. And some people are real stinkers.  In the typical American household, the nose is assaulted by an army of smells. You rise in the morning and go to the bathroom. If you are lucky enough not to be constipated, you have your morning bowel movement, and then spray […]
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• A Secret Masterpiece by the Father of Hawaiian Modernism

  12-11-2024 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  This hexagonal home, hidden on an Oahu mountaintop, is the best example of Vladimir Ossipoff’s blend of Japanese and American midcentury design.
  
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• Washington Monument Strategy

  11-11-2024 17:00 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  In the annals of politics is the legendary strategy once used by the National Park Service to avoid crippling budget cuts.  As the story goes, when the tentative budget cuts were announced the Service told the public that, because of the looming funding issues, they would be forced to close the Washington Monument. A great […]
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• Does new report offer ‘cure’ to Hawaii permitting woes?

  11-11-2024 01:46 via hawaiireporter.com
  
  By Keli’i Akina Have you ever had trouble getting a building permit?  I’m guessing yes because the reaction to my recent column about a homeowner’s permitting troubles on Hawaii Island has been some of the most intense I’ve seen in my many years of sharing my thoughts with you. Readers responded with their stories of […]
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