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Brenda Gotanda

Brenda H. Gotanda is a partner with the environmental and energy law firm of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox LLP and lead’s the firm’s sustainability practice group. Brenda has over 25 years of experience representing and counseling clients on environmental matters, including regulatory compliance, permitting, transactions, project development, and enforcement. She has represented clients in […]

Clif Kagawa

CLIFTON KAGAWA is a partner in Hawaii merchant bank Sennet Capital, and a founder and chief executive of Broadband iTV, a developer of interactive television intellectual property. He currently with Anthology Marketing Group provides marketing, communications and public affairs consulting to chief executives and senior management in Hawaii. His U.S. and international marketing and public […]

Craig Wagnild

Kem Lowry is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center where he is currently working on climate change adaptation projects in Hawaii and Asia. He is Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and former director of the Program on Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii. He has worked with […]

David Karl

DAVID KARL is a Professor of Oceanography and Director of University of Hawaii’s C-MORE, Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education. He is a biologist and oceanographer in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. David has focused his research on the ecological role of microorganisms in the sea and has enjoyed many […]

David Louie

David M. Louie, former State of Hawaii Attorney General from 2011 to 2014, is in private law practice handling matters of complex litigation with experience involving high profile matters and jury trials in state and federal courts. His professional career includes President of the Hawaii State Bar Association and numerous other local and national organizations. […]

Deborah Zimmerman

Deborah Zimmerman is President of New Millennium Meetings.  She specializes in convention sales and is contracted by the Hawaii Tourism Authority to manage the HTA `Elele (Ambassador) program. A twenty-year veteran of the visitor industry, Ms. Zimmerman worked at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in convention sales for 13 years prior to launching her own business.  […]

Diane Sherman

Diane Sherman has been a part of Hawaii’s legal community for 35 years. For over 30 years she was the manager of Bendet Fidell & Sakai law firm and now serves as Executive Director of the firm of Clay Chapman Iwamura Pulice & Nervell, Attorneys at Law. Her past activities include serving on the technology […]

Jason Hirata

JASON HIRATA is a real estate attorney with Kamehameha Schools. He was previously an Associate Attorney with the law firm of Bendet Fidell Sugimura, AAL, ALC concentrating in the areas of real estate and business transactions, exempt organizations, and landlord-tenant and commercial litigation. Jason has served as ThinkTechHawaii’s volunteer legal counsel since September 2014. In addition […]

Kem Lowry

Kem Lowry is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center where he is currently working on climate change adaptation projects in Hawaii and Asia. He is Emeritus Professor and former chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and former director of the Program on Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii. He has worked with […]

Shackley Raffetto

Shackley Raffetto practiced law for many years in Hawaii and served as a trial judge for 27 years, including 12 as Chief Judge of the Second Circuit (Maui County) where he created and presided over the Maui Drug Court. He also served in the USMCR and the USNR, retiring with the rank of captain, Judge […]

Sherilyn Lau

SHERILYN LAU is an Educational Specialist for Career and Technical Education (CTE), Perkins Federal Programs, at the Hawaii State Department of Education. As a CTE Educational Specialist, she is responsible for designing programs that support students becoming “college and career ready”. Sherilyn has been instrumental in developing the career pathway system which provides the framework […]

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Arizona Charges Giuliani and Other Trump Allies in Election Interference Case

Those charged included Boris Epshteyn, a top legal strategist for Donald Trump, and fake electors who acted on Mr. Trump’s behalf in Arizona after the 2020 election. [...]

Trump’s Immunity Claim Joins His Plans to Increase Executive Power

The former president is asking the Supreme Court to put the presidency above criminal law as he pursues a broader agenda of expanding the office’s power should he win the [...]

Campus Protests Over Gaza Intensify Amid Pushback by Universities and Police

There were dozens of new arrests, mostly in Texas, as universities moved to prevent pro-Palestinian encampments from taking hold as they have at Columbia University. [...]

Columbia Says Student Protesters Agree to More Talks and to Remove Some Tents

Nemat Shafik, the university’s leader, met privately with faculty members, who could soon decide to admonish her. Columbia’s board, though, made its support clear. [...]

Arizona House Votes to Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban

The almost-complete ban on abortions in the state could go into effect as soon as June 8 if the State Legislature does not repeal it, the state’s attorney general said. [...]

US secretly sends long-range missiles to Ukraine

Missiles delivered this month have been used to strike Russian targets in Crimea, US media say. [...]

Labour pledges to renationalise most rail services within first term

The party says it offers the "biggest overhaul in a generation" but ministers brand it "pointless". [...]

One-word Ofsted grades should stay, says government

The government says the judgements are useful for parents, after MPs called for them to be scrapped. [...]

Spain's PM halts public duties as wife faces inquiry

Pedro Sánchez says he will "stop and reflect" on whether to remain in the job. [...]

Girl arrested after teachers and pupil injured in school stabbing

A teenage girl has been arrested after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed in Ammanford, south-west Wales. [...]

Opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is in the lead after winning almost almost 40% of the first-round vote. The election comes as North Macedonia seeks EU membership. [...]

Antony Blinken arrived in China for his second visit in a year to discuss a range of issues amid rising tensions between the two countries. [...]

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Miss Lieser" was long thought to be lost, when in fact it hung for decades in a private villa near Vienna. [...]

US President Joe Biden has said deliveries of much-needed artillery munitions and other supplies to Ukraine will commence within "hours" after he signed a long-awaited aid package into law. DW [...]

On a visit to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the German president said Germany and Turkey needed each other. Erdogan used to occasion to criticize the West's stance on the [...]

Meadows, Giuliani, 11 'fake electors' from 2020 are among those indicted in Arizona

Arizona is now the fourth state where charges have been brought against individuals involved in so-called "fake elector" schemes that sought to undermine Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump. [...]

Gateway Pundit files for bankruptcy after election conspiracy defamation lawsuits

The influential website faced multiple defamation suits over conspiracy theories about 2020 election fraud that it's accused of promoting. [...]

What consumers should know about the milk testing positive for bird flu

Federal officials and scientific experts say the virus detected in retail milk samples may be inactive and unable to cause an infection. [...]

Heated arguments at the Supreme Court in newest abortion case

At issue is a clash between federal and state law about how pregnant women must be treated in the emergency room. [...]

Taylor Swift set a new record this week with, well, records. The vinyl kind.

Taylor Swift, whose latest album is now the first to surpass one billion Spotify streams in a single week, has smashed another record as well. [...]

A proposed repeal of Arizona’s near-total ban on abortions has won approval from the state House, clearing its first hurdle a week after a court concluded the state can enforce [...]

Curtis Mead hit his first homer of the season and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 to avoid a three-game sweep [...]

In one meeting, Biden and others sprang a surprise effort to persuade Speaker Johnson to pass the aid package [...]

'The Banshees of Inisherin' and Germany’s 'All Quiet on the Western Front' closely followed. [...]

"Sound of Freedom," a low-budget film about child sex trafficking, almost topped the box office. But its star Jim Caviezel has linked it to the QAnon movement. [...]

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