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
What’s the most important book in high school? It’s not your math book or English book or science book. Read more
Fueled by the ridiculous claims that former President Donald Trump won reelection, Republican-controlled state legislatures want to make sure that in the 2022 election, the GOP will win a real majority. Read more
Question: Please provide information about erectile dysfunction after being sick with COVID-19. There have been jokes about it, but I need real information. Read more
The next sound we hear from the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District should be a screeching halt, until scheming lawmakers provide coherent answers on what exactly is being built, who’s running it, what’s the cost and how we’ll pay. Read more
Nearly a week after Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open, we are still left to contemplate what this story is really all about. Read more
COVID-19 case rates continue to taper, restrictions are being lifted and tourists are returning in droves. Roughly $4 trillion in rescue funds has been injected into the economy with as much again on the table for the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan. Read more
Synopsis: In an effort to address climate change, the City Council of Honolulu has adopted an action plan to reduce carbon emissions on Oahu, and to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2045. It is an ambitious plan. Are there enough people willing to get on board? Read more
Question: How come people on PUA can just keep collecting but people on UI have to search for work? It doesn’t seem fair. Read more
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