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 ...
From Koko Crater to Wahiawā: The long fight over Oʻahu’s trash
Sometimes, all it takes to recollect a memory from the past is an email. That is what occurred on August 8th when Hawaiʻi State Senator Donovan Dela Cruz issued his periodic e-newsletter, this time addressing the current issues with locating a new Oʻahu landfill. But first, let’s catch up the reader on the current discussion of the siting. The most recent proposed site for the Oʻahu landfill, until it was ...
The Oscars of Hawaii journalism – how did PHwSF do?
Despite a tsunami warning earlier in the week, the Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii Chapter went ahead and held its annual awards dinner and ceremony on the 31st of July. The ceremony is designed to recognize excellence in journalism in written, in voice, and by video in a variety of categories. Over the years, SPJ Hawaii has been able to open up the categories to encompass a larger variety of ...
From Appropriations to Aloha: Following Native Hawaiian Line Items in FY 2026
Recently, this blogger had a chance to look at the White Houseʻs “Technical Supplement to the 2026 Budget”. This document, which came out on the 30th of May, provided detailed funding levels for various programs, following the release of the "Skinny Budget" (a preview of the budget) on May 2, 2025. Donʻt judge a book by its (boring) cover. The White House proposed federal budget is as much a policy-driven ...
