Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Honolulu crawls to top
Honolulu had the worst traffic congestion among American cities in 2011, with drivers wasting an average of 58 hours stuck in gridlock, according to a study released Tuesday.
Hoku cuts 100 workers, halts plant construction
Hammered by plunging polysilicon prices, Honolulu-based Hoku Corp. was forced to lay off 100 workers and halt construction on a plant in Idaho that was to produce the main component used in photovoltaic solar panels, company officials said Tuesday.
Priory welcomes Maori king
Singing a song of welcome in Hawaiian, students at St. Andrew's Priory greeted New Zealand's Maori King Tuheitia on Tuesday as he paid an official visit to the school, which has deep ties to the Hawaiian monarchy and Polynesia.
Dude food
Life was great when I could eat or drink anything I wanted and not worry about consequences. But those days are long gone.
For Kila, Oakland is more than OK
ARLINGTON, Texas » Before last September, Kila Ka‘aihue had only played for one organization during his nine seasons of professional baseball. But after Kansas City optioned him to Triple-A on May 5, 2011, so top prospect Eric Hosmer could make his long-awaited debut, the writing was on the wall for this Kailua native.
Hawaii elections will proceed as scheduled this year as a federal panel of judges Tuesday refused to intervene and stop the state from moving forward with a reapportionment and redistricting plan approved in March.
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Hammered by plunging polysilicon prices, Honolulu-based Hoku Corp. was forced to lay off 100 workers and halt construction on a plant in Idaho that was to produce the main component used in photovoltaic solar panels, company officials said Tuesday. Story »
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WASHINGTON >> Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has apologized for any embarrassment he caused his state when he revived a widely discredited conspiracy theory about President Barack Obama’s birthplace by requesting verification that the president was born in Hawaii Story »
- Island Images: Rush-hour traffic, May 22, 2012
- Island Images: The Maori King visit
- Remembering Robin Gibb
- Ring of Fire Eclipse
- Island Images: Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor
- Island Images: May 2012 [Part 2]
- Island Images: Baseball, Hawaii vs Nevada [Part 2]
- Island Images: The New Baby Expo
- Sports Extra: Baseball, Hawaii vs. Nevada
- Marines Return
- Graduation signs
- Island Images: USS Carl Vinson, May 15, 2012
- Page One Collection: May 2012 [Part 2]
- HPD Police Week Memorial Service, May 14, 2012
City attorneys worry that a bill designed to ban commercial activity at two beach parks in Kailua might violate the separation of powers doctrine and be vulnerable to legal challenges.
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MESA, Ariz. » Just how wide open is the Western Athletic Conference baseball tournament this year? Story »
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There is John Wayne's vintage '53 Corvette. There are also James Dean's '49 Mercury, Elvis's '73 Cadillac and Jack Benny's famed Maxwell, at home in Reno, Nev., at the National Automobile Museum, known familiarly as the Harrah Collection. Story »
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Life was great when I could eat or drink anything I wanted and not worry about consequences. But those days are long gone. Story »
SALT LAKE CITY >> When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking stereotypes about African-Americans.
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