Community Matters
Let’s Meet him and Hear About his Platform. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Richard Bissen. Richard Bissen is running for Mayor of Maui. He tells us about his background, his reasons for running, his platform on various issues and what he hopes to achieve as mayor. The ThinkTech YouTube […]
Preview of National Burning Issues Program – Gun Violence (Community Matters)
Chris Marvin on Gun Violence Prevention. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Chris Marvin. Chris Marvin of Marvin Strategies, a former Army Officer and helicopter pilot, and a combat-wounded veteran of the war in Afghanistan, helps us understand the state of gun violence in America, what we can and should […]
A Preview of our Legal Chicken, Legal Egg Program (Community Matters)
Connecting five burning national issues. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Avi Soifer and Richard Wallsgrove. Warming up for our National Burning Issues program on September 30, we look at its various segments, including the challenges of connecting and dealing with those issues by moderator and former WSRSOL dean and […]
A Preview of our Legal Chicken Legal Egg Program (Community Matters)
Two Segments: Abortion and Voting Rights. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Kimi Ide-Foster. Our panel discusses the scope and content of the presentations they contemplate in our National Burning Issues program on September 30. Kimi Ide-Foster gives us an idea of what she has in mind for her talk […]
Shidler Business School Addresses Climate Change (Community Matters)
Faculty and Students Share Their Work with us. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Constancio Paranal, Marisa Pangan-Hosokawa and Raina Casamina. Professor Paranal is the Normandy Chair for Peace and Island Innovation, organizations that are centered on addressing climate change and intergenerational equity, and is teaching a class on Creativity […]
The Status of Diversity in New York City (Community Matters)
Is it Changing These Days, and in What Way. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. Our New York correspondent Roopmati Khandekar helps us understand diversity in New York, in the streets, shops, restaurants, museums and the UN. Is there racism or bigotry, or are people friendly and tolerant […]
Tourists will Pay More for Locally Grown Food (Community Matters)
A Research Paper by the Travel School at UHM. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Jerry Agrusa. Jerry Agrusa of the Travel School at UH Manoa helps us understand the research project he led at the School of Travel Industry Management in the Shidler College of Business on whether Tourists […]
Better Tomorrow Means Scaling up in Agriculture (Community Matters)
A New Documentary by Filmmaker Kim Bassford. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Robert Perkinson. Robert Perkinson, an American Studies Professor at UH Manoa, helps us understand the Better Tomorrow series, which includes an event about Kim Bassford’s documentary on agriculture in Hawaii entitled Scaling Up: Hawaii’s Food Future. The […]
Pop Superstar Duo Ammon and Liahona Olayan (Community Matters)
Headlining at Blue Note Hawaii. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Ammon Olayan and Liahona Olayan. Brother and sister Ammon and Liahona Olayan are from the Big Island, and they are in Hawaii now. They have had an extraordinary journey on American Idol, and will headline at the Blue Note […]
Let’s Meet Executive Chef Colin Hazama (Community Matters)
Now the Executive Chef of the HFWF. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Colin Hazama. The Hawai‘i Food & Wine Festival has announced the appointment of Chef Colin Hazama as its new Executive Chef. HFWF was founded by two notable Hawai‘i chefs—Chef Roy Yamaguchi & Chef Alan Wong—to promote Hawai‘i’s […]