Liane Hansen has been the host of NPR's award-winning Weekend Edition Sunday for 20 years. She brings to her position an extensive background in broadcast journalism, including work as a radio producer, reporter, and on-air host at both the local and national level. The program has covered such breaking news stories as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the capture of Saddam Hussein, the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the Columbia shuttle tragedy. In 2004, Liane was granted an exclusive interview with former weapons inspector David Kay prior to his report on the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The show also won the James Beard award for best radio program on food for a report on SPAM.
A federal judge has awarded a total of more than $680,000 to 17 families who say they were sickened by 2021 jet fuel leak into a Navy drinking water system in Hawaiʻi. The bellwether cases set the legal tone for another 7,500 military family members, civilians and service members whose lawsuits are awaiting resolution.
Today on The Conversation, we're revisiting some of our favorite interviews about the plants that Polynesian voyagers brought to Hawaiʻi and the role they play agriculture today.