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Elemental Excelerator: Innovating from the Ground Up (Hawaii Food and Farmers Series)

Learn how Elemental Excelerator helps startups change the world, one community at a time. Elemental Excelerator supports startups around the world with funding and professional expertise to improve areas of our lives that affect everyone: agriculture, water, energy, transportation, infrastructure and more. By supporting innovation at the ground level, we can build a better future […]

Business Building Blocks: Women Farmers Workshops with O’ahu RC&D (Hawaii Food and Farmers)

Creating a network of women farmers throughout Hawaii to empower local women-led farming operations. Stephanie and Matt will discuss their work with O’ahu RC&D in providing a series of women farmers workshops on O’ahu, Maui and Hawaii Island this month in order to connect women farmers and provide training in the areas of value-added production, […]

North Shore Economic Vitality Partnership: Food Safety & More (Food and Farmers Series)

North Shore EVP is uniquely positioned to build new civic leadership, strengthen communication and collaboration, and community engagement across O’ahu’s North Shore. On this episode of Hawaii Food and Farmer series, Stephanie Mock is joined by Kevin Kelly and Lisa Z. Rhoden to talk about food safety and GAP certifications for farmers The host for […]

Candidate for reelection Hawaii State Representative Dee Morikawa, District 16 (Community Matters)

Kaua‘i’s communities projects. In this episode of Community Matters, Marsha is joined by Representative Dee Morikawa to talk about issues that are important to her constituents and her reelection campaign. The host for this episode is Marsha Joyner. The guest for this episode is Dee Morikawa. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 11:00 […]

Sustainable Nearshore Fisheries (Life In The Law)

Successes and Weakness. Communities in Hawaii and New Zealand have begun to successfully manage their own small-scale fisheries resources and have created systems of managing coastal fisheries on the basis of traditional knowledge and customary law that had ensured sustainability of stocks. This project will analyze their successes and weakness and propose standard guidelines for […]

Celebrating Women In Agriculture for Women’s History Month (Hawaii Food And Farmer Series)

Quality, Patience & Fortitude in Farming. This week on Hawaii Food and Farmers Series, Priscilla Carbajal, from Vida Farms joins Pomai Weigart in the studio to talk about Quality, Patience & Fortitude in Farming. The host for this episode was Pomai Weigart. The guest for this episode was Priscilla Carbajal. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on […]

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- Jim Tankersley
Biden’s China Tariffs Are the End of an Era for Cheap Chinese Goods

The president’s move to protect strategic manufacturing sectors from low-cost competition aims to increase jobs, but consumers might not like the costs. [...]

- Bernhard Warner, Michael J. de la Merced and Sarah Kessler
How Companies Dodge Tariffs

Protectionist trade policies are popular on both the left and right. But some economists say they’re likely to backfire. [...]

- Maya King and Katie Glueck
In His Beloved Philadelphia, Biden Faces Wariness From Black Voters

Even in the president’s favorite political stomping ground, his standing has slipped with Democrats who will be vital to a repeat victory, interviews with nearly two dozen Black voters showed. [...]

- Rick Rojas and Maya King
Biden Flipped Georgia in 2020. This Year Could Be Different.

His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia’s emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a changed landscape there. [...]

- Roger Cohen
A Would-be Assassin Stirs Europe’s Violent Ghosts

Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. [...]

Russia could increase Ukraine attacks, says Zelensky

Moscow continues to make military gains in the Kharkiv region as Ukraine struggles with resources. [...]

Boil water notice mostly lifted in Devon

South West Water says about 2,500 homes will have to keep boiling water due to a parasite. [...]

Attacked Navalny ally will 'never give up' fight

Leonid Volkov says his fight against Vladimir Putin will never end. [...]

Unpaid carers being forced to repay £250m to DWP

One claimant unknowingly overpaid Carer's Allowance said the debts she incurred have brought 'considerable financial strain'. [...]

Thunderstorm weather warning issued by Met Office

Forecasters have warned some areas could see up to 50mm (2in) of rain and flooding on Saturday. [...]

Cologne needed a minor miracle to survive going into the last game of the season, with no guarantee that a win would be enough to save them. Instead, they collapsed [...]

President Salome Zourabichvili had earlier told DW that she would reject the contentious legislation as a "symbol." The veto, however, can be overridden by another vote in parliament. [...]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged federal "solidarity" after the western state of Saarland was hit by flash flooding and landslides. He toured some of the affected areas with the [...]

Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank had been expected to provide guarantees for the construction of a gas-processing plant that was to be operated by Gazprom. [...]

Premier Robert Fico is in a stable but serious condition after a shooting attack, Slovakia's health minister says. The suspected shooter is reported by media to be a 71-year-old former [...]

- John Helton
Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft launch is delayed again

A helium leak pushed back a planned launch to May 25. Boeing's program that would shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been plagued with problems. [...]

- Ron Elving
Pete McCloskey's life reminds us how politics long in the past live on in the present

McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing [...]

- The Associated Press
Dabney Coleman, who starred in '9 to 5' and 'Tootsie', dies at 92

Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. [...]

- Sarah Donaldson
Ohio reviewing race-based scholarships after Supreme Court affirmative action ruling

Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. [...]

- Michael Scaturro
Other countries have better sunscreens. Here's why we can't get them in the U.S.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and we need all the protection we can get. So why is it so hard to get newer, more effective [...]

- Victoria Bisset

Canadian police used DNA testing to link Gary Allen Srery, who died in 2011, to the killing of two girls and two women in the 1970s. They say there may [...]

- Siobhán O'Grady, David Stern, Isabelle Khurshudyan

Andriy Yermak, a former lawyer and film producer who runs Volodymyr Zelensky’s wartime presidential office, is arguably the most powerful chief of staff in Ukraine’s history. [...]

- Justine McDaniel

Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]

- Justine McDaniel

Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]

- CiarÁn Fahey | AP

League champion Bayer Leverkusen has become the first team to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten [...]

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