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JAMM AQUINO / SEPT. 17
The restaurant card program has channeled millions of dollars in federal money to Hawaii’s struggling restaurants. Likelike Drive-Inn is among many that have permanently closed during the pandemic.

Kokua Line: Eligible PUA claimants should be getting $500 Hawaii Restaurant Cards in the mail

By Christine Donnelly cdonnelly@staradvertiser.com
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Question: As of Saturday neither my husband nor I has received a restaurant card. I have called the information line and been told I am on the list at the correct address. What’s up with the delay? If the card does not get here soon, I will not have time to use it. Read more

DENNIS ODA / 2014
Airbnb and Expedia Group have agreed to work with the city on the enforcement of short-term vacation rentals. Joyce Farrell, looking out toward the ocean from her Haleiwa home, hasn’t had a moment’s peace since 2006 when the lot next door traded hands and became an illegal vacation rental.

Airbnb and Expedia agree to help Honolulu crack down on illegal vacation rentals

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Ballots are prepped before being tallied on a machine during the general election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Complaints delay Hawaii’s vote certification

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A man strode toward the Hawaiian Airlines check-in at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

Percentage of Hawaii travel-related COVID-19 cases up fourfold in November

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Visitor arrivals to Hawaii picked up from Nov. 18 to 21, when 15,986 passengers arrived, some 10,152 of them here for vacation or pleasure, according to the state. In matching pink shirts, Alex and Fanny Lee, visiting from San Francisco, took a walk Sunday in Waikiki with daughter Arielle and son Aden.

Key Hawaii testing partner warns travelers to make other plans; Kauai seeks to exit program

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A Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation train made its way through Aiea on the way to Aloha Stadium on Tuesday.

Honolulu City Councilwoman suggests delay in start of rail service

ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2018
U.S. Rep. Ed Case hopes for another round of funds for COVID-19 relief from Congress. Case greets evening commuters while campaigning in Honolulu.

Unspent funds won’t need to be returned, Case assures

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The Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home located in Hilo, Hawaii, on Sep. 24, 2020.

Inspection data sought on Hawaii nursing homes as nation’s facilities see record coronavirus cases

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Christine Donnelly

Kokua Line: Honolulu County adds mail option to replace a lost or stolen state ID

CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / AUG. 31
Mayor Kirk Caldwell holds a news conference to address mislabeled COVID-19 tests at Honolulu Hale.

VIDEO: Mayor Caldwell announces $24M addition to Small Business Relief and Recovery Fund

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STR, a market data company, reported that Oahu had the worst October occupancy level of the nation’s top 25 U.S. hotel markets. The Waikiki Beachcomber by Outrigger, above, reopened Nov. 13 with notes to guests about the hotel’s commitment to cleanliness.

Hawaii’s hotel industry is still struggling despite tourism reopening, and isn’t expected to break even in 2021

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Travelers wait in line to be screened after arriving on transpacific flights at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Concerns raised over state’s new quarantine plan

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HONOLULU BOARD OF WATER SUPPLY

Board of Water Supply to reopen Monday

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Many survivors of COVID-19 have donated convalescent plasma, and while there is a larger pool of potential donors now, the bank is still in need of more. Blood collection specialist Analia Dyer preps a blood draw from a donor who did not want to be identified at the Blood Bank of Hawaii.

Blood Bank of Hawaii hoping more convalescent plasma donors step up

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Kuhio Lewis, Chair of the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Complete Count Committee and CEO of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement speaks during the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders media briefing for the 2020 census at the Pacific Club in January.

Native Hawaiians among those hardest hit by COVID-19

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A TSA agent looked back Sunday at a group of travelers passing through the Terminal 1 security checkpoint at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

Kauai wants stricter travel entry rules

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A 61-year-old man was found unresponsive in his bed at the Saguaro Correctional Center on Thursday morning and was pronounced dead shortly afterward, Hawaii Department of Public Safety officials said.

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Rearview Mirror

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Duke Kahanamoku came down with the Spanish flu in 1918 at the end of a 30-city swimming tour to raise money for the American Red Cross. He nearly died, and it cost him an opportunity to join the Air Corps. Kahanamoku runs in the surf on Waikiki Beach in the late 1920s.

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Facts of the Matter

NASA / ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2015
Astronauts in low-Earth orbit — aboard the International Space Station, for example — avoid the harshest effects of cosmic radiation because there is still a bit of atmosphere, as well as the Earth itself, to protect them. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly executes a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

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