What Can Hawaii Learn From Google (Hawai’i Together)

Insights Into Google Hiring, Product Development, And Teamwork. Google is the most successful of recent upstart firms, like Airbnb, Uber, and Facebook — in doing what is called visioning the future. According to Tsuchiyama, “There are absolutely lessons for Hawaii from Google, in research, innovation, and global products.” Akina and Tsuchiyama discuss applying the lessons […]

Racial Harmony In Hawaii

Michael Lilly , Former Hawaii Attorney General, joins Hawaii Together with Keli’i Akina for a discussion on the history and current state of Racial Harmony in Hawaii. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out […]

Sam Slom, Hawaii’s Opposition Voice

ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm every weekday afternoon, Hawaii Time, then streaming earlier shows through the night. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for […]

Honolulu Rail Counting the Cost

Whether one is Pro-Rail or Anti-Rail, there’s something virtually everyone in the state agrees about – the cost of building the Honolulu Rail is getting out of hand. Not only that, serious questions have been raised about how well the funds already invested in this project have been spent. Law professor Randy Roth, who has […]

A Journalist In Paradise

An up and coming generation of millennial journalists is reshaping the way the news is reported in Hawaii and across the world. One of those shaping the scene locally is Anita Hofschneider. In this episode of E Hana Kakou, Anita discusses with Kelii Akina her experiences in the profession of journalism and her views about […]

Lawyering for Social Justice

The Economically Downtrodden And Needy Frequently Do Not Have The Legal Resources With Which To Survive In Today’s Society. Fortunately, Lawyers At Hawaii Appleseed Center For Law And Economic Justice Are Changing That. Tune In For E Hana Kakou With Keli’i Akina Where Gavin Thornton Describes His Journey As A Lawyer And The Work He […]

Legislature Updates

As The 2017 Hawaii Legislature Winds To A Close, It Is Clear That Tax-And-Spend Policies May Be The Ultimate Winner. In This Episode Of E Hana Kakou, Grassroot Institute Staff Will Report On A Range Of Activity From Tax Increases To Attempts To Keep The Public Out Of The Government’s Business. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live […]

Transforming Society through Liberty

Libertas Institute envisions a day when individuals, families, and communities throughout Utah champion the principles of liberty and the voluntary creation of a moral society by persuasion and example to improve their great state. Institute president Connor Boyack appears on E Hana Kakou with Dr. Akina to discuss how to promote individual liberty, private property […]

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Ukraine Aid Bill Clears Critical Hurdle in the House as Democrats Supply the Votes

Democrats stepped in to support bringing the aid package to the floor, in a remarkable breach of custom on a key vote that paved the way for its passage. [...]

Ukrainians Wait, Nervously, to See if U.S. Will Provide Critical Aid

From the battlefield to battered cities, soldiers and civilians are counting on Congress to approve $60 billion in military support. Without it, Ukrainian officials say, prospects in the war are [...]

Man Sets Himself on Fire Near Courthouse Where Trump Is on Trial

Onlookers screamed as fire engulfed the man, who had thrown pamphlets in the air before he set himself aflame. The authorities said he was in critical condition and unlikely to [...]

Prosecutors Want to Ask Trump About Attacks on Women

Prosecutors are seeking to cross-examine the former president, should he take the stand, about lawsuits he has lost, including a civil jury’s finding last year that he was liable for [...]

At G7 Meeting in Capri, Blinken Tackles Rough Seas and Global Crises

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and his counterparts, who met on the Italian island of Capri, welcomed signs that tensions between Iran and Israel might not worsen. [...]

Protester sets himself on fire outside Trump trial

The motive in the incident, which was witnessed by reporters at the scene, remains unclear. [...]

Someone screamed 'don't do it' before man set himself on fire - BBC reporter

The BBC's Nada Tawfik was outside the New York court where Donald Trump's trial is taking place. [...]

Bowen: Crisis shows how badly Iran and Israel understand each other

After decades of rivalry, the rival Middle East powers have both miscalculated, writes Jeremy Bowen. [...]

BBC Verify examines video from Israel's attack on Iran

Footage showing explosions in the sky over Iran has been analysed by BBC Verify. [...]

Met Police apologises for 'openly Jewish' comment

Footage shows Gideon Falter being told his presence is "antagonising" near a pro-Palestine march. [...]

People rushed over to douse the person with a fire extinguisher at the Manhattan courthouse where Donald Trump's hush money criminal case was underway. Police said he was alive but [...]

Tesla is recalling nearly 4,000 trucks due to a problem that can leave drivers to deal with uncontrolled acceleration. Tesla recalled millions of cars earlier in the year. [...]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told NATO defense ministers his country needs air-defense batteries to fend off Russia. He said support on the issue will determine whether Ukraine and NATO are [...]

Heavy rainfall flooded large parts of the Arabian Peninsula this week, while images of the resulting chaos flooded social media. Are cloud seeding and climate change to blame for the [...]

The case had been noted as an extreme example of European governments' efforts to thwart NGOs helping migrants in the Mediterranean. [...]

Israel Strikes Back at Iran, Will This Calm or Inflame Tensions?

Israel and Iran have been trading attacks on each other for a week including, for the first time, attacks on each other's territory. Will Israel's latest retaliation be the end [...]

What World War II taught us about how to help starving people today

The modern study of starvation was sparked by the liberation of concentration camp survivors. U.S. and British soldiers rushed to feed them — and yet they sometimes perished. [...]

Biden administration adds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students, assault victims

The new rules also broaden the interpretation of Title IX to cover pregnant, gay and transgender students. They do not address whether schools can ban trans athletes from women's and [...]

'We created this problem:' a pediatric surgeon on how gun violence affects children

Mikael Petrosyan of Children's National Hospital says gun violence against children is preventable. [...]

Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS 'NewsHour'

During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died April 12. Originally broadcast in 1986 and [...]

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