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It’s Wednesday, February 20 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation

Money for running and trails you can see

Kory Payne is Executive Director for Voter Owned Hawaii and Co-Founder of Hawaii Policy Portal. Voter Owned Hawaii is a non-partisan nonprofit working to upgrade and modernize Hawaii's partial public funding program for elections. The Hawaii Policy Portal is an online advocacy platform where organizations and citizens can make their perspectives known to influence decision makers. HB 1481 will be heard by the Committee on Finance, Thursday afternoon.

A classic definition of a stand-up comic...book

Papa Lopaka, also known as Robert DeVinck, is a writer who is giving a dramatic reading of the Classics Illustrated comic book of War of the Worlds tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Kihei Public Library.

Waiting listing the immigration reform wait list

Mazie Hirono is in her first term as a Hawaii senator. She has been home for the past few weeks and will soon return to Washington. Senator Hirono was born in Fukushima, Japan and graduated from Kaimuki High School, University of Hawaii, Manoa, and Georgetown University. She was a member of the Hawaii state house of representatives from 1981-1994 and Hawaii lieutenant governor from 1994-2002. She was elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Tenth and to the two succeeding Congresses and was not a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives but was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 2012 for the term ending January 3, 2019.

Hot and Sonny with a chance of Duane

Sonny Silva is the bandleader of the Hot Club of Hulaville, performing Saturday evening at 7:30 at Studio 909, a new Honolulu performance space.

And today’s reality check, the world view from Deutsche Welle and no chip for this backyard pet. First the news, from NPR…