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The SEE-IT Exhibition Takes its Place at APEC

Hosts Jay Fidell and Lisa Maruyama provide an overview of the See-It Exhibition at APEC. Featuring: Avatar Reality, BAE Systems, Hawaiian Electric Company, ICES, WM Keck Observatory, Makai Ocean Engineering, NOAA Pacific Islands Region, Oceanit, Pacific Biodiesel, Pisces, Referentia systems, Robotics Organizing Committee, See/Rescue, Skai Ventures, Sopogy, UH College of Engineering, UH Institute for Astronomy, […]

Some Angels Who Invest in Hawaii

Hosts Duke Oishi and Lori Wingard provide an overview of Hawaii Angel investors. Featuring: Rob Robinson (Hawaii Angels), Ben Wo (Angel), Bill Spencer (Hawaii Venture Capital Association), Chenoa Farnsworth (Hawaii Angels), Peter Cannon (Franko Maps). Original Air Date October 30, 2011. Episode 59. The hosts for this episode were Duke Oishi, Lori Wingard. The hosts […]

The Counties Weigh in on Clean Energy

Hosts Duke Oishi and Lori Wingard provide an overview of the general membership meeting of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. Featuring: Will Rolston (Energy Coordinator, Hawaii County), Doug McLeod (Energy Commission, Maui County), Glenn Sato (Energy & Sustainability Coordinator, Kauai County), Chelsey Gaddy (Energy & Sustainability Coordinator, C&C Honolulu), Sharon Moriwaki (Chair, Energy Policy Forum). […]

Update on Wind at Lanai High School

Hosts Duke Oishi and Lori Wingard provide an overview of the Energy Conference at Lanai High School and community response to wind power. Featuring: Issac Zablan (Hawaiian Homelands Resort), Alberta DeJetley (Farmer, publisher), Sergio Aguilar (Lanai Courier), Phoenix Dupree (Blue Ginger Cafe), Joe and Priscilla Felipe, Gerard Rabaino, Dennis Coffman (State Representative), Chris Lovvorn (Castle […]

HPU Produces A Movie on the Media

Hosts Dukie Oishi and Lori Wingard provide an overview of Hawaii Pacific University’s Multimedia Program. Featuring: Natalie Lewis, Dr. Peter Britos , Laurel Taylor, Rachel Cole, Mark Hines, Anthony Giandomenico. Original Air Date October 2, 2011. Episode 55. The hosts for this episode were Duke Oishi, Lori Wingard. The hosts for this episode were Duke […]

The Clean Energy Summit Comes Back for More

Hosts Duke Oishi and Lori Wingard provide an overview of the 2011 Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit & Expo. Featuring: Paul Berry, Morris Atta (DLNR Land Division), Greg Hurst (AECOM), Alfredo Lee (Agribusiness Development Corp), Jesse Souki (State Office of Planning), Lenore Ohye (DLNR Water Resource Management), Barry Usagawa (Honolulu Board of Water Supply), Roberto […]

Newsmorphosis Redux One Year Later

Hosts Jay Fidell and Duke Oishi provide an overview of the Newsmorphosis Redux program. Featuring: Steve Petranik (Hawaii Business), Chris Conybeare (Hawaii Media Council), Jim Dooley (Hawaii Reporter), Barbara Tanabe (Hoakea Communications), Kyle Tanouye (Talisman LBS), Lucy Young-Oda (Star Advertiser), David Tumilowicz (Hawaii Business), Kevin Bumgarner (Pacific Business News), Rick Blangiardi (Hawaii News Now), Jeff […]

Our Honolulu Aquarium: Connecting Us with the Wonders of the Ocean

Hosts Jay Fidell and Andrew Anderson provide an overview of the work of the Honolulu Aquarium. Featuring: Andrew Rossiter (Director, Waikiki Aquarium), Andy Winer (NOAA), Dean Spencer (Waikiki Aquarium), Ceila Smith (Botanist, University of Hawaii). original Air Date August 28, 2011. Episode 50. The hosts for this episode were Andrew Anderson, Jay Fidell. The hosts […]

The Reemergence of Symphonic Music In Hawaii

Hosts Jay Fidell and Alisa Onishi provide an overview of the reemergence of symphonic music and the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Featuring: Jim Moffitt (Clarinet/Bass Clarinet), Norm Foster (Clarinet/E-Flat Clarinet), Iggy Jang (Concertmaster), Steve Dinion (Percussion), Judy Barrett (Assistant Concertmaster), Paul Barrett (Bassoon), Tim Leong (Violin) and Ken Robbins and Vicky Cayetano (members of the Board). […]

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- Shane Goldmacher
How Has Trump Changed the GOP? His Criminal-Trial Guest List Tells the Tale.

The former president’s trial has become a staging ground for aspiring allies to prove their fealty, the latest litmus test in a party increasingly defined by loyalty to Donald Trump. [...]

- Michael Wilson and Catie Edmondson
Mike Johnson Visits Trump’s Criminal Trial to Say What He Can’t

Outside the Manhattan courthouse where Donald J. Trump is being tried on criminal charges, Mike Johnson attacked a key witness who linked the former president to a plan to cover [...]

- Jeanna Smialek
Fed Chair’s Confidence in Slowing Inflation Is ‘Not as High’ as Before

Jerome H. Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, said that the central bank was poised to leave interest rates on hold after surprisingly stubborn inflation. [...]

- Ben Casselman and Jeanna Smialek
High Interest Rates Are Hitting Poorer Americans the Hardest

The economy as a whole has proved resilient amid the highest rates in decades. But beneath the surface, many low- and moderate-income families are struggling. [...]

- Simon Romero, Paulina Villegas and Luis Antonio Rojas
The Other Busing Program: Mexico Is Pushing Migrants Back South

In response to pressure from the Biden administration to curb migration flows, Mexico has quietly bused thousands of migrants away from the U.S. border to sites deep in the country’s [...]

Huge manhunt in France for prisoner after two officers killed in ambush

The deadly ambush began when a car rammed into a police van, before gunmen attacked the officers. [...]

Riot police move in on Georgia parliament protesters

There have been weeks of mass street protests in the capital sparked by a divisive "foreign agent" law. [...]

Cohen admits past lies before Trump lawyer starts questioning

Donald Trump's former lawyer is into his second day of blockbuster testimony at Trump's hush-money trial. [...]

Three in court over alleged terror plot to attack Jewish community

Three men are accused of planning a gun attack on the Jewish community in North-West England. [...]

Russia must pay for Ukraine's reconstruction - Blinken

The US secretary of state delivers remarks in Kyiv during a surprise visit, telling Ukraine "you are not alone". [...]

Acclaimed author Alice Munro was the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize in literature. Her collections of short stories were celebrated for their complexity and authenticity. She died at [...]

Far-right politician Björn Höcke, a former history teacher, denied during the trial knowing the origin of the slogan he used on the campaign trail. [...]

Two court rulings this week have dealt a blow to the Alternative for Germany party (AfD). Pressure is now mounting for the party to be banned. [...]

Pakistan's government has announced subsidies to lower the price of flour and electricity after four days of rallies in which four people were killed in clashes with police.. [...]

Mike Johnson is the latest Republican to lend public support to presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is standing trial for trying to hide an extramarital affair with a porn [...]

- Daniel Estrin
Israelis and Palestinians held a joint memorial for all victims of the ongoing war

It's rare for Israelis and Palestinians to join together for any reason during these days of war. But some did so this week for a ceremony honoring victims from all [...]

- Bobby Allyn
Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment

The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free [...]

- Hadeel Al-Shalchi
Strike kills U.N. aid worker, injures another in southern Gaza

The United Nations said that one of its aid workers was killed and another injured when their vehicle was struck on Monday in Rafah in southern Gaza. [...]

- Ximena Bustillo
Michael Cohen, a key witness in the Trump hush money trial, returns to the stand

He once boasted of being Donald Trump's "protector" but now he is testifying to lying for Trump's benefit, including about payments made to an adult film star ahead of the [...]

- Rachel Treisman
Fallout continues from the Miss USA resignations as a runner-up declines the crown

After a pair of resignations rocked the pageant world, organizers have found a replacement for Miss USA but not Miss Teen USA. Last year's runner-up said this week that she [...]

- Associated Press

Federal auto safety regulators are warning people not to stick decals on their steering wheels because they can be hurled at drivers if the air bags inflate in a crash [...]

- Emily Langer

The Canadian writer’s works of short fiction illuminated seemingly ordinary lives. [...]

- Washington Post staff

Kenya’s president ordered the evacuation of all homes along the nation’s rivers after floods killed at least 169 people in the past month, with dozens still missing. [...]

- Matthew Lee | AP

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seeking to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them that they are not alone and that [...]

- Heather Long

People aren’t eager to return to offices, but they’re venturing downtown after hours and on weekends. [...]

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