Question: Will the passport office have another fair soon? I wasn’t able to get there Sept. 7.
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- By Ryan Miyamoto
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Sept. 18, 2024
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Symmetrical internet speed is increasingly important for businesses because it provides equal upload and download speeds, which can improve efficiency and productivity.
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Question: Regarding digital IDs, about 40% of cellphones are Android-based. Why is the DOT only working with Apple?
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When I see or hear about a concussion in football, a conversation in the 1990s with the late, great Russ Francis often comes to mind.
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Question: What is the maximum weekly for unemployment? If I end up having to leave Hawaii to look for a new job, can I transfer the benefit, at least for a while?
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In a brutal week for University of Hawaii football:
>> Four schools gave notice of their intent to leave the Mountain West, of which UH has been a football-only affiliate since 2012.
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Records were made to be broken, not manufactured.
Over the weekend Campbell quarterback Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele threw for 408 yards in a destruction of Farrington to give him 8,262 in his career. Or did it?
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If Donald Trump comes to Hawaii in this presidential campaign year, we can offer him sun and surf, but our famed Hawaiian hospitality is not likely to extend to political success.
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- By Cardenas Pintor
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Sept. 15, 2024
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Reading the Sept. 5 commentary, “America’s youth must vote to save democracy in November” (Star-Advertiser, Island Voices), I understand the urgency of the youth vote in the upcoming presidential election.
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Question: Will there be ballot questions in the November election? I like to read up in advance because sometimes they are confusing but I couldn’t find a sample ballot for Honolulu.
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- By Janet Covington
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Sept. 15, 2024
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As we observe Suicide Prevention Month this September, it’s important to confront a silent crisis affecting our communities: suicide. Hawaii faces its own set of challenges, including geographic isolation, mental health stigmas and disparities in health care access.
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In the present-day world of college football, every game is an audition. This applies to players, coaches, and teams.
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- By Michael Ferreira, Frank Genadio and John Shockley
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Sept. 15, 2024
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More than a year ago, our commentary involving the completion of 4,000 linear feet of roadway for Makakilo Drive to the H-1 Kualakai Parkway Interchange was published (“A critical need for a second access to Makakilo,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, Aug. 31, 2023).
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The buzz in Hawaii’s Nov. 5 general election will come from the presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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Dennis Ching asked me about teahouses. “I believe there may have been one located near Stream Drive in Nuuanu, mauka of Wyllie Street. Access may have been by Liliha Street or a road off Pali Highway, where Temple Emanu-El is now located.
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Question: Hawaii recruits new public school teachers and then doesn’t pay them? Auwe! When are these teachers going to get their money? School started the first week of August! Mahalo to them for showing up regardless!
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Question: Regarding voting by people who are in care homes, please print the details because I don’t use a computer.
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We’ve all been there before. Vexed by a technical issue, exhausted the Google-fu (skill in using search engines), tried the chatbot, and at wit’s end, we know we have to call for support.
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