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It’s Monday, March 4 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation

Five year goal: pothole control

Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s city spending plan includes 150 M for road repair to fix about a third of the city’s worst roads over 5 years...when no doubt it will be time to start it all again.  

Maui's on a roll for the Ocean Science Bowl

Steven Okada is a senior and captain of the Maui High School Ocean Sciences team, which will represent Hawai‘i in the 16th annual National Ocean Sciences Bowl on April 18 - 21, 2013 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Learning multiethnic spaces for these varied human races

Jon Okamura is a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UH Manoa where he teaches courses on race and ethnicity.  He is the author of Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i and the forthcoming Race and Ethnicity:  Interpreting Japanese American Experiences in Hawai'i.

And the Kumulipo chant has a universal slant

Natalie Mahina Jensen and Lucia Tarallo, artists, will present La‘a Ka Pa-Kapala: Sacred the Rhythms And Patterns – an Artist Talk Story at the Volcano Art Center, on Thursday, March 10th.

Plus a backyard quiz, today’s reality check and the world view from Al Jazeera…first the news… from NPR