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O'ahu Neighborhood Boards Could Get a Reboot

Another election season has just begun on O'ahu. Candidates for this year's Neighborhood Board elections have all submitted their registrations, and elections are coming up for these grassroots positions. Under a new City administration, there is a push to activate this level of community involvement.

House Committee Advances Bill to Dissolve the Agribusiness Development Corporation

Maui Health Plans To Increase Number Of Vaccine Appointments

National and World Headlines

U.S. Intelligence: Saudi Crown Prince Approved Operation To Kill Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia's crown prince approved an operation in 2018 to "capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi," according to a report from the U.S. intelligence community released Friday. The report will likely damage the already complicated relations between the traditional allies. "We based this assessment on the Crown Prince's control of decisionmaking in the Kingdom since 2017, the direct involvement of a key adviser and members of Muhammad bin Salman's protective detail in the operation...

'A Very Concerning Shift': CDC Head Warns Of Recent Uptick In COVID-19 Cases

Biden's $1.9 Trillion Rescue Plan: Vital Medicine Or Costly Overkill?

House Committee Advances Bill to Dissolve the Agribusiness Development Corporation

By Ku`uwehi Hiraishi • 47 minutes ago

Hawaiʻi legislators are one step closer to dissolving the state’s Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC). The 27-year-old entity was initially created to develop economically viable farms to fill the void created by the closure of plantations. But a recent state audit found the ADC has done little to fill that void.

Hotels Struggle Across the Islands

By A. Kam Napier • 1 hour ago

Tourism is slowly climbing back, but January 2021 was still a rough month for hotels.

Asia Minute: Australia’s Oldest Rock Art

By Associated Press • 1 hour ago

Here’s a news story that goes back tens of thousands of years. It’s about a development this week involving an indigenous culture in the Asia Pacific, a rock painting, and a kangaroo.

With One Move, Congress Could Lift Millions Of Children Out Of Poverty

By Cory Turner & Anya Kamenetz • 10 hours ago

The COVID-19 relief bill working its way through Congress is full of big ideas to help people. But there's one idea that's so big, it was politically unthinkable not that long ago.

President Biden and Democratic lawmakers want to fight child poverty by giving U.S. families a few hundred dollars every month for every child in their household — no strings attached. A kind of child allowance.

If this proposal survives the wrangling in Congress and makes it to Biden's desk, experts say it could cut child poverty nearly in half.

Climate Change, Deforestation Threaten Monarch Butterfly Migration

By Jaclyn Diaz • 11 hours ago

2020 was a bad year for butterflies, too.

The population of monarch butterflies that migrated to Mexico to ride out the cold winter months in the north fell 26% from a year earlier, according to a new report from the Mexican government and the Word Wildlife Fund.

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HPR-Produced Talk Shows

The Conversation: What You Should Know About Mail Theft

By Catherine Cruz & Lillian Tsang • 20 hours ago

U.S. Postal Inspector warns of mail theft; Hawaii's stamp collectors; Reality Check with Civil Beat: State ineffective in getting farmers on land; What's new at the Hawaii State Archives; Gardening tips from a Molokai homesteader

Bytemarks Café: UH’s Calvin Shindo Student Venture Fund

By Burt Lum • Feb 24, 2021

Today on Bytemarks Cafe, we'll get the inside story on the University of Hawaii’s Calvin Shindo Student Venture Fund. Weʻll learn this venture fund will give students hands-on opportunity to learn the venture capital process and startup finance.

The Conversation: Investigating COVID Cases in Incarceration Facilities

By Catherine Cruz, Russell Subiono & Jason Ubay • Feb 24, 2021

COVID-19 cases behind bars; Big Island doctor reflects as physician-assisted-dying bill advances in Hawai'i Senate; Reality Check: State budget shortfall smaller than expected; Alzheimer's virtual conference tomorrow; Punahou grad on the latest Mars mission

COVID-19 cases behind bars

HPR Features

Hawaiian Word of the Day: February 26th

By Leilani Poli`ahu • 10 hours ago

ʻAle is a wave out at sea, not to be confused with nalu, a wave or surf nearing land. A better English equivalent might be a billow.

The Doors' John Densmore - Part One - Off The Road - HPR's All Things Considered

By Dave Lawrence • Feb 19, 2021

Today on our Off the Road series, HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence welcomes one of the greatest rock bands of all time, The Doors, and drummer John Densmore.

HPR-Produced Music Shows

Classical Pacific, Friday, February 26, 2021

By Louise Keali'iloma King Lanzilotti • 3 hours ago

Classical Pacific presents classical music from pre-Renaissance to the current day, locally curated by Keali‘iloma (Louise Keali‘iloma King Lanzilotti). The program is live weekdays from 3-6pm Hawaiian Standard time, streaming live on hawaiipublicradio.org and on the HPR mobile app.

Questions? Comments? Email me: llanzilotti@hawaiipublicradio.org

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Morning Cafe/Morning Concert with Gene Schiller

By HPR Staff • 3 hours ago

Playlists below

Weekdays 8:00 AM - Noon on HPR-2

Studio Line: (808) 792-8245

About the show:
HPR Music Director Gene Schiller's signature program begins each weekday morning with Morning Cafe, a refreshing blend of music, usually built around a special theme.

Bridging the Gap ~ February 25th, 2021: Singer-songwriter, Indie Folk, Indie Rock

By Aisha Kadomatsu • 16 hours ago

Tonight on Bridging the Gap, we will be featuring songs from some of my favorite singer-songwriters. Also weaving in some indie folk and indie rock.