First the airport, now the cable company

Not Oceanic. Spectrum, Spectrum, Spectrum. That’s what the new owner, Charter Communications Inc., calls it and repetition helps.

The old name for the cable TV service, which outlasted its acquisition by Time Warner Cable, had staying power. So did other legacy entities. One was Honolulu International Center, or HIC, in the pre-Blaisdell Center era. The Kahuku hotel has been Turtle Bay for years, but old-timers remember Kuilima Resort. The race is on to see whether the other new conversion, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, sticks in the memory before Oceanic. Er, we mean Spectrum.

Hawaii’s travel ban challenge looks to SCOTUS

Almost as fast as you can say “travel ban” — and yes, President Trump went there — the U.S. Supreme Court is now looking at not one, but two, cases on the controversial ban.

One involves Hawaii’s own successful challenge to the ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries, a legal halt the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just affirmed. The other case involves a similar ruling against the ban rendered by the 4th Circuit appellate court in Virginia. All eyes, from west to east coasts, now turn to our land’s highest court.