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The view from the HPR transmitter site atop Mt. Kāhili on Kaua‘i.

The Conversation: Public media funding eliminated; Gov. Josh Green

HPR News Director Bill Dorman shares what the elimination of federal funding for public media means for HPR; Gov. Josh Green talks about what's next for the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority and the possible impact of low vaccination rates among students

FILE - Students march at Arizona State University in protest of ASU's chapter of College Republicans United-led event encouraging students to report "their criminal classmates to ICE for deportations", Jan. 31, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

The Conversation: Public media funding; National Education Association

HPR News Director Bill Dorman shares the latest on the Trump administration's move to claw back federal funding for public media; Castle High School English teacher Jamie Stidger pushes the National Education Association to recognize that all students have a right to an education, regardless of their immigration status, in their national platform

Bytemarks Cafe: July 18 - Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Hackathon

Topic: Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument hackathon

Burnt buildings on Front St., almost two years after the Maui fires. (Aug. 4, 2025)

The Conversation: Maui tourism; A very long walk around Hawaiʻi Island

Leadership with the Hawaiʻi Visitors & Convention Bureau discuss efforts to boost Maui's tourism economy; Kumu Paul Neves walks 300 miles across Hawaiʻi Island in support of caretakers

The Conversation: Lahaina Jodo Mission; Renewable energy

Maya Hara, Executive Director of the Lahaina Jodo Mission, shares how she and her fellow congregants are honoring those who lost their lives in the Lahaina fire; California Energy Commission Chair David Hochschild discusses the rollback of federal programs to support renewable energy

Sacred Hearts School teacher Charlene Ako shows a picture of the princess with a lei of bird feathers in connection with third graders from Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena Elementary at her class at Sacred Hearts Mission Church on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

The Conversation: Lahaina Sacred Hearts School; Feral animals

Sacred Hearts School principal Tonato Lolesio talks about plans to set up classrooms in temporary facilities while rebuilding their campus, which was destroyed in the Lahaina fire; Hawaiʻi County Council Member Matt Kanealiʻi-Kleinfelder and Elaine Parlow from Action 4 Animals discuss a divisive measure that would prohibit the feeding of stray or feral animals on county property

Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the international media in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

The Conservation: Tourism; Pope Leo XIV's ancestry

Keith Vieira with KV & Associates Hospitality Consultants shares his outlook on tourism; Genealogist Jari Honora talks about Pope Leo XIV's ancestry as Hawaiʻi marks nearly two centuries since the first arrival of a Catholic priest in the islands

FILE - People take to the waves on Waikīkī Beach on June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Garcia)

The Conversation: A hana hou show on the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority

On today's program, we revisit the recent changes at the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, the agency that has long overseen Hawaiʻi's largest industry.

FILE - Downtown Honolulu fronted by Aloha Tower Marketplace

The Conversation: Honolulu empty house tax; Educational technology

The Honolulu City Council is once again considering a tax on vacant housing units; Does educational technology really help kids learn?

The Conversation: DOE funding; Local businesses embrace indoor murals

What do Trump's threats to dismantled the federal Department of Education mean for Hawaiʻi's schools?; More local businesses are seeing their blank walls as canvases for indoor murals

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