The State is relocating its Data Center from the flood-zoned Kalanimoku Building in Downtown Honolulu to one on higher ground. HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka reports.
Wayne Yoshioka is an award-winning journalist who has worked in television, print and radio in Hawaiʻi. He also has been on both sides of politics as a state departmental appointee and political/government reporter. He covered Hurricane Iwa (1982) as a TV reporter; was the State Department of Defense/Civil Defense spokesperson for Hurricane Iniki (1992); and, commanded a public affairs detachment in Afghanistan (2006). He has a master's degree in Communication from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and is a decorated combat veteran (Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and 22 other commendation/service medals). He resides in Honolulu.
Pedro Haro, executive director of the American Lung Association in Hawaiʻi, spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the longstanding push to regulate the tobacco industry.
This schedule change comes after Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke became the center of a story this week, involving allegations that an “influential lawmaker” accepted $35,000 in a paper bag during a January 2022 meeting.