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It’s Thursday, December 27 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation…

A legal wrangle over the effort to save lives…

Carl Varady is the attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the City and County of Honolulu alleging failure to pay for recorded overtime hours

Why chase after art, when it can come to you?

Adair Hill is an artist and the creator of the Art Truck.

Gender equality: we may have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go…

Don Bentz is the treasurer for Equality Hawaii.

A local author takes a clear-eyed look at paradise…

Chris McKinney is the author of five novels, all based on Hawai‘i, and also a feature film screen play Paradise Broken and a short film The Back Door, both of which premiered at the 2011 Hawai‘i International Film Festival.

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