In the past, many local papers found their way to your porch — and hopefully not the bushes or roof — by bicycle. Mostly boys — and a handful of girls — braved the elements to deliver the news to your door. Read more
Question: I heard there’s no more automatic free parking if you have a disability placard. Is that true? Read more
It seems like forever ago. That measurement of time between reality and can-the-years-really-have-gone-by-this-quickly. Read more
Question: In January the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that Hawaii intended to participate in the federally funded Mixed Earner Unemployment Compensation (MEUC) program, which will pay an extra $100 a week to eligible claimants who earned too much from an employer to be eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance but too little to get much in standard Unemployment Insurance. Read more
First of all, let’s get this out of the way, because it always comes up: It doesn’t matter how many teams you have in a college football playoff, the first team left out will be outraged. Read more
Question: I am 100% vaccinated in Honolulu. I need to go to Japan for a few weeks. Can I use my vaccine card to return home without quarantining? Read more
Of course, more is better. That’s why Twitter lists the number of each account’s followers and Facebook publicizes “likes.” That’s why no trick-or-treatin’ kid has ever said: “I have enough candy, let’s call it a night.” And that’s why a lottery would be more fun with 50 $1 million winners than one $50 million winner. Read more
Question: Weren’t they supposed to have a hearing about the traffic cams? Read more
If you are a sports fan, putting a major league baseball game on the radio provides relaxing background sound. If you are a reporter, the chatter, whoops and squawks from a police radio scanner provide the same comforting feeling that you are plugged in. Read more
Question: Gov. David Ige, Mayor Rick Blangiardi and other government officials rightly encourage Hawaii residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect the health of all Hawaii’s people and so restrictions on travel, business, etc., can be lifted. Read more
She’s too humble to say it herself, so let me do it. Jocelyn Alo belongs on the United States Olympic softball team. Read more
Being of the age and health demographic most vulnerable to COVID-19, I’ve played it safe and seldom gone out in the last year. Read more
I wrote about Fort Ruger two weeks ago. Barb Miller Elm wrote eloquently about her idyllic childhood on the base that is now Kapiolani Community College. Read more
Question: I am scheduled to return to Hawaii on Monday, the day before the vaccine exception takes effect. If I cancel my COVID-19 test and self- quarantine instead, will they let me out on Tuesday? Read more
After decades of condescension and discrimination, women surfers, who’ve historically had fewer contests and lower pay than men, and contests at Hawaii’s Pipeline and Tahiti’s Teahupo‘o pulled on grounds the waves being too dangerous for girls, are finally standing in the spotlight and claiming their due. Read more
Question: We are vaccinated and have submitted our names to the prize drawing. How will winners be notified? We have an increasing number of scam calls and do not answer our phone unless we recognize the caller ID that identifies the caller. Obviously, we would hate to miss having our names selected and then miss the notification! Read more
Cameron Kinley is a 6-foot-2, 205-pound cornerback who performed quite well at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie minicamp as an undrafted free agent last month. Read more
Question: What a relief that our vaccination card will get us home from our graduation trip to Oregon. But help! I cannot for the life of me figure out how to upload our cards to the Safe Travels app. Read more
For too long, it has been a bare market for University of Hawaii football promotions. Read more
Whether we liked it or not, 2020 was a year that brought a great deal of change. Many workplaces were forced to go remote basically overnight, and it was predicted that cybercrime would rise to new levels as a result. Read more
Question: There is a kink in the UI portal that I am sure is affecting a lot more people than just me. I am still attached to my full-time employer (furloughed) and don’t have to do the job search. However, when I signed on to certify my claim, I still got the job-search question. Read more
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