Tucked just below Oregon and above the District of Columbia, Hawaii ranks 13th in the number of people fully vaccinated. That’s 709,205 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration data tracker. Read more
When it comes to getting orchids to flower, it always comes down to the water. Read more
Question: When I tried to link my vaccine card in Safe Travels, I got a message that the card was uploaded but could not be verified. When I got my shots, they wrote out the card by hand — it’s pretty messy, I could barely make out the vaccine lot numbers — and they didn’t write my name exactly as it appears on my ID. Is this going to be a big problem when I come home? Read more
We’ve been goin’ off the rails on a crazy train for how long now, 20 years? Read more
Shortly after new Honolulu Prosecutor Steven Alm promised tougher and more independent investigations of police shootings, he’s faced with two of the most problematic fatal shootings in recent times. Read more
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
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