Question: I never got the stimulus and should be eligible. Maybe I got one of those cards in the mail and mistook it for junk mail (Kokua Line, June 5, 808ne.ws/kline65). But when I called the number to check, it sounded like a scam and I hung up. Are you sure it was the right number? Read more
With Fordham bowing out of its Sept. 12 game, one shoe has dropped and, now, the University of Hawaii football team waits to see if there might be more in this COVID-19 tossed season. Read more
Ordinarily, what the Ivy League does carries little weight with much of the big-time college football universe, where its group of elite private schools is regarded as something of an anachronistic outlier. Read more
PUA payments are subject to federal and Hawaii state income tax, but PUA won’t withhold these taxes for you, as the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations does for people receiving standard unemployment insurance. Read more
Voters get an unfair rap. Because of stacked campaign finance laws that protect incumbents and incompetence by the local GOP, voters often find few realistic ballot options for change. Read more
The last really big deal in how Hawaii held elections came in 1968 when voters were first given computer punch cards to be used as ballots. A computer read the cards, counted each candidate’s votes and Hawaii joined the age of electronic voting. Read more
Question: The parking lot at Magic Island has been under reconstruction for several months now. In passing the site every morning for my daily walk, I see no construction activity for weeks while the early morning park users, like myself, scramble up and down the park access road at 5 a.m. looking for a space to park. Does Parks and Recreation have a completion schedule? Read more
WHEN powerful Boise State takes a hit during the football season there is a measure of enjoyment from the rest of the Mountain West Conference, rare as the occasions might be. Read more
In December 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched an attack on Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was the main target since most of our battleships were there. Read more
Question: Regarding those blue bikes for rent around town, do they wipe them down to disinfect or sanitize between each customer? At least the handlebars and seat? Read more
When the Western Athletic Conference split up following a clandestine meeting of a group of breakaway presidents in 1998, a University of Hawaii official was asked what happened to the collegiality? Read more
The menu at Guieb’s Cafe encompasses the best of everything he’s learned in years of restaurant work. Read more
The good news for the University of Hawaii is that Petra Melounova, the most accomplished tennis player in school history, plans to return. Read more
Question: My tenants aren’t paying their rent. I have four small units, and under the current situation I don’t want to evict anyone and I couldn’t even if I wanted to, but what little monthly income I had earned after expenses is gone. Can I file for PUA? Read more
Question: I am one of those who mailed in my taxes right before the pandemic hit and never heard back from the IRS. Have they started processing paper returns yet? Should I refile, because who knows if they ever received it? Will they pay interest on the refund they owe me? Read more
With all the chaos, confusion and conflict consuming the halls of government right now, you’d be forgiven for missing reports that the U.S. attorney general and a group of U.S. senators are backing a new bill that would crack open the secure spaces where you keep your deepest, darkest secrets. Read more
Gov. David Ige is proving the truth of the political saying that in politics, timing is everything. Read more
It’s the last Sunday in June and time to “flASHback” on the month’s news that amused and confused. Read more
We followed up with UH spokesman Dan Meisenzahl for more information about priorities in this new and temporary system. Here’s his response. Read more
If you are the University of Hawaii men’s volleyball team or, indeed, many of the nationally ranked teams that play men’s volleyball on the Division I level, be concerned. Be very concerned. Read more
What if one of the after-effects of COVID-19 is that Oahu doesn’t need rail as much anymore? Read more
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