Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.
HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization’s most recent forecast. It expects a mild recession largely due to weak tourism numbers, federal worker layoffs and volatile tariffs increasing the price of goods.
A group of Maui teachers were detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning. Several of the teachers are from the Philippines. They had J-1 visas, which allow educators from other countries to teach in the U.S.