Question: When free at-home COVID-19 tests were first delivered by mail at the beginning of this year, the “use by” date for some kits was only a few months away, and Kokua Line shortly thereafter reported that the expiration date for the CareStart brand was extended by three months from the date printed on the box. Read more
The University of Hawaii and Cal Poly baseball teams should be competing for more than just pride and bragging rights as they finish their seasons with a three-game series this week at Les Murakami Stadium. Read more
Hawaii’s COVID-19 saga highlighted the food insecurity that exists in the Aloha State. During the depths of the pandemic, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that the Hawaii Foodbank and other nonprofits were working overtime to meet the spike in demand. Read more
Hey, sorry to break up the nostalgia party, but right here and right now is the best time to be an athlete in America. Read more
Question: What is smishing? How can I avoid it if I don’t know what it is? Read more
A few years ago when I was covering preps for this newspaper, I started pound-for-pound rankings for wrestling. Read more
The news is full of stories about intense public frustration in the face of COVID-19, high inflation and unprecedented political divisions. Read more
Question: A couple of days ago, I received an email that claimed to be from UHERO regarding a COVID- 19 survey. Participants would be compensated. I did not access the site. Read more
College sports’ online matchmaking game used to be helping student-athletes and schools find each other directly. Read more
Question: On Saturday, while driving on Kailua Road, as I passed “church row” I saw two sign-wavers advertising “car wash for donations.” Normally, I’d willingly participate in these community fundraising events, but drove past this time because it bothered me that an organization was having a car-wash fundraiser at the same time that we’re being asked to conserve water. Although the water crisis is not as acute on the Windward side, I think having a car wash shows a lack of awareness and is certainly a bad visual. What’s the Board of Water Supply’s position on charity car washes on the Windward side? Read more
Just about everyone knows that the moon orbits Earth once every month, which is the time required for one orbit. What we do not commonly know is that the moon’s orbit is not circular; it is elliptical. Read more
Every now and then I open my mailbag and respond to reader questions. Here are some I’ve gotten recently. Read more
Question: The $50,000 agriculture grants are a great idea (https://808ne.ws/513kline) but I wish they would give more than 20. Can they award more? If funding is limited, why not give smaller dollar amounts to more farmers? Read more
Question: Can we get more COVID-19 tests mailed for free? Also, regarding the booster, are we supposed to get the second shot or not? Read more
The lamentations of a current state lawmaker decrying the Legislature’s relationship with the autonomous University of Hawaii and its athletic department? Read more
Question: Regarding watering the parks (808ne.ws/kline515), is that the whole island or just in areas that used to get water from the Halawa shaft? Read more
Ransomware, like most other technologies, continues to evolve and become more effective for its nefarious purveyors. At its advent, ransomware merely encrypted your data and charged a ransom to un-encrypt it. Read more
We don’t know what happened to those “Grey’s Anatomy” characters who are here one episode and gone — STAT! — after that. Read more
It was just your ordinary Hawaii day back in 1976, but the memory of a passing conversation remains seared in my noggin. Read more
It is unusual for political candidates to become so emotional about their campaign that they break out in tears, but that happened with Hawaii’s Big Island Democrat, Rep. Kai Kahele. Read more
Question: The Dillingham Fountain at Kapiolani Park is off during the day but comes to life at 6 p.m. Is there a problem with the timer switch? Surely it should be turned on at 6 a.m., not 6 p.m.? Read more
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