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It’s Wednesday, December 19 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation…

The money that makes Hawaii go ‘round: the biennium budget.

Kalbert Young is the State Budget and Finance director. He is also a trustee to the State of Hawaii Employees’ Retirement System and a trustee on the State’s Deferred Compensation Plan.  He is also the chairman of the board of directors for the Public Land Development Corporation.

He’s a slacker- and proud of it. 

Doug Fitch is a slack-key guitarist and performing artist whose latest CD will be out in January.   

Changing in rapid succession: Hawaii after Senator Inouye

Dante Carpenter is the head of the Democratic part of Hawaii.

Dollars at an exhibition: your museum at work. 

Stephan Jost is the director of the Honolulu Museum of Art, which has just received more than a half-million dollars in education and exhibition funding.

Plus a Hawaiian diet in the  backyard, today’s reality check and the BBC world report … the news is next… from NPR.