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Promoting Government Transparency: Hawaii’s Public Access Laws

Cheryl Kakazu Park is the Director of the Hawaii State Office of Information Practices (OIP). Cheryl joins Senator Russell Ruderman on The Ruderman Roundtable to discuss the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA) and The Sunshine Law. Since April 2011, Cheryl Kakazu Park has been the Director of the state Office of Information Practices, which administers […]

Honolulu Rail Alternative Facts

As the host of Moving Hawaii Forward, Tim Apicella gives us something to think about when it comes to paying taxes for the Honolulu Rail Project’s continuously growing costs as the HART budget goes off the rails. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, […]

Oceanic Connectivity with Elisa Kim

Elisa Kim is an Architect, Researcher and Educator at Washington University in St. Louis. She joins Martin Despang on Human(e) Architecture to reflect on her unique, pragmatic and poetic research on the Oceanic. Learn more about Elisa Kim: https://reslife.wustl.edu/people/elisa-kim/ ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, […]

Not All Chinese Moms are Tigers!

Not all Chinese mothers are tiger moms! Catherine Lin, President of Nihao-Media and Bao Kun Duan, Founder of the Academy of Himalayan Art and its children education foundation, join Crystal Talk on Kwok Talk to debunk and discuss stigma in our society. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm […]

Free Market Solutions for Hawaii’s Economy

Affordable housing, homelessness, the high cost of living, and unfunded state worker liabilities. These are just a few of the serious problems facing Hawaii’s economy. In this episode of E Hana Kakou, Dr. Keli’i Akina and Ken Schoolland discuss why the prevailing approach to economics cannot solve these problems and how the solution is to […]

Futurists of Hawaii – From Fragility to Sustainability with Futures Studies

As a futurist researcher of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies (HRCFS), Aubrey Yee, Project Design Coach and general resource to the Forum of Omidyar Fellows, joins Dean Nelson on Planet of the Courageous to discuss Hawaii’s fragility and vulnerability, future leadership in Hawaii and the need for examination of different cultural values and […]

The Rail Surcharge

In what can only be described as a victory for the people, the Hawaii State Legislature is perilously close to an act of common sense when it comes to the rail surcharge. Call it an attack of self-awareness — or perhaps self-preservation — but a number of our state senators and representatives have realized that […]
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