The mission and the lawsuit: Elite schools under fire here and abroad
This humble blogger never expected that two schools tied to different chapters of his life — one where he attended in Hong Kong, and one that sits at the heart of Hawaiʻi’s identity — would be fighting lawsuits at the same time. Yet here we are. Hong Kong International School (HKIS), where this blogger spent part of his youth in the early 1990s, and Kamehameha Schools, an institution deeply intertwined ...
When Honolulu chose the airport: A council aide’s view of the decision that changed the Skyline
By now, most readers of this blog have seen either the short snippet or long-form commercials announcing the extension of the Skyline rail system on Oʻahu to the Airport and Middle Street. Along with the ads, a new tagline is being rolled out – “Skyline, always on time.” As an aside, this blogger is seeing that the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit (HART) is finally figuring out how to market ...
Echoes of 2006: The Generational Question in Hawaii’s CD1 Race
As the announcements rolled out for the Hawaii Congressional District 1 seat (urban Honolulu), one thing this blogger heard was an echo from the past.Specifically, an echo from 19 years ago, during the 2006 U.S. Senate race. From top to bottom, Congressman Ed Case, State Representative Della Au Belatti, State Senator Jarrett KeohokalolePC at the bottom of the article That echo, found in the statements of both State Senator Jarrett ...
On Charlie Kirk
Just before the end of a conference in Chicago on Wednesday, September 10, phones started vibrating with breaking news. By the time this blogger got back to the hotel room a few minutes away, the first instinct was to turn on the TV and find out what had happened to Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk. The reports came quickly: Kirk had been shot in the neck and rushed ...
Hawaiian Airlines didn’t fail — The world changed around it
A couple of weeks back, the folks at Beat of Hawaii (BOH)issued an article titled “Why Hawaiian Airlines Failed: A Story of Planes, Promises, And Pride”. In it, the two gentlemen at BOH laid out a case where the airline was either too poor or too stubborn to pivot for survival, thus leading it to be bought out by Alaska Airlines. BOH’s argument boils down to this: Hawaiian’s leadership (at ...
