Legislative Score Card
The 2010 legislative session is pau, so let’s recap the status of five environment-related bills and see how they did.
News
Ash Alert?
Hawaii volcanoes are unlikely to cause massive airline delays. Here's why.
Afterthoughts: Outside the Box
Strapped for cash to solve the homeless problem, we’re going to have to get creative.
Grading the Public Schools: The 2010 Grades
Once again, we've ranked more than 250 public schools across the state, using data from the state Department of Education. How does your school measure up?
The Maryland Lesson
Hawaii’s public schools clearly need to improve. We take a look at the No. 1 public education system in the nation, to see what success looks like. What can we learn from Maryland’s example?
Afterthoughts: Shipping of Fools
Mankind has walked on the moon. Cured polio. Created incredible technologies, from the printing press to the Internet. But still, we cannot ship a cardboard box to Hawaii.
Afterthoughts: McGarrett's Makeover
A reader requests we save CBS from a ratings fiasco. We’ll see what we can do.
Knee-High Volunteers Are Rewarded with Their Own Private Kokua Festival in 2010
Knee-high volunteers are rewarded with their own private Kokua Festival.
Q + A, Robbie "Flash" Hansen
As promotions and marketing director of the Wave Waikiki for the past seven years, Flash, 32, keeps that nightclub jumping. As an independent promoter, his twice-monthly Skyline parties have resurrected the formerly geriatric Hanohano Room in the Sheraton Waikiki.
Tax Cut for USPS
The Post Office is catching a break this year, thanks to the Internet.
Meeting of the Minds
East-West Philosophers’ Conference convenes in Honolulu to discuss “Educations and Their Purposes"
Afterthoughts: We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Visions
Some people are asking when Mayor Mufi Hannemann will develop a vision for Honolulu. Don’t we have our own dreams?
Afterthoughts: Next Stop, Portland
We’d better staunch this flow of ex-pats or we’re not going to have any citizens left in Honolulu.
Crisis in the Trauma Center
The trauma center at Queen’s saves hundreds of lives every year. What happens if it closes?
Afterthoughts: Wired, Connected and Lost
Thanks to the internet, we are living our lives online, despite being physically located in Hawaii. What does local mean again?
Grading the Public Schools: What It Means
A profile of several schools in Honolulu, detailing their student performance, school quality, and faculty.
Afterthoughts: The Right Tool for the Job
Interview with Patricia Hamamoto about public education money, Waipahu High School and education reform
Afterthoughts: We Know the Drill
Why have fear-mongers won an important public-health debate?
Called to duty
This month, about 380 Army Reservists and 180 Army National Guardsmen from Hawai‘i will deploy to Iraq, leaving their families and jobs behind.
Help Wanted
Honolulu is going to get a new mayor this fall. Due to term limitations, Mayor Jeremy Harris can no longer run, so the job is open to a fresh face for the first time in a decade.
