State Cigarette Tax; Blue Note Hawaii Concert; From The Farm; Japanese War Brides Documentary
Increase State’s Cigarette Tax: Richard Auxier
Later this half hour, we’ll have a look at the now dead measures that would have added to the state’s general excise tax for two specific purposes meanwhile this morning the senate ways and means committee will consider a bill to add an excise tax on electronic smoking devices and eliquid - plus create requirements for retailers, wholesalers, and dealers of those devices or e-liquid related to permits, reports, and records. Putting the health issue aside, are social taxes an effective way to raise funds while changing - or perhaps not changing behavior? Richard Auxier is a research associate in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center at the Urban Institute. His work focuses on state and local tax policy, budgets, and other finance issues. He has been on the staff of the DC Tax Revision Commission and is a former researcher and editor at the Pew Research Center.
- Intro Music: Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
- Outro Music: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Ray Conniff
Blue Note Hawaii Concerts: Joe Lovano/John Scofield
Jazz has to keep moving to stay alive, like a shark, and the first decades of its second century have seen the music grow and expand in any number of ways: incorporating world music rhythms, changes in instrumentation, electric instruments and all they can do. Two musicians who have been at the forefront of that evolution, guitarist John Scofield and saxophonist Joe Lovano, are in Hawaii with their quartet, and they’re with us in our studio. The John Scofield and Joe Lovano Quartet will perform at the Blue Note Hawaii, in Waikiki, tonight through Sunday.
- Intro Music: Passport by Joe Lovano Us Five
- Outro Music: A Go Go by John Scofield
A tumultuous political season will change shape yet again as a dozen states hold nominating contests today. Meanwhile voters in Iran sent a moderate message and, so far at least, the fragile cease fire in Syria appears to be holding. Most Tuesdays, news analyst Neal Conan joins us from his Mac nut farm on the Big Island, but this isn't just any Tuesday, it is Super Tuesday! You can also hear Neal’s Pacific News Minutes, right here on Hawaii Public Radio.
"Deliberative Dialogue" on income inequality by Public Policy Center: Colin Moore
Today, while mainland states continue to winnow away the 2016 candidates, in Hawaii, the Public Policy Center, a few allied UH departments at UH and Sen. Les Ihara are gearing up for a "deliberative dialogue" on income inequality. It will happen tomorrow night, 03/03, as part of the National Issues Forum, which is sponsoring similar discussions throughout the country. The idea is to invite members of the public to engage in a thoughtful, facilitated discussion on the ways we can spread prosperity and improve opportunity. UH political science professor Colin Moore is the director at the UH public policy center.
- Intro Music: At the Heart of It All by Capercaillie
- Outro Music: Jesusland by Ben Folds
Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Marlene Blackwell
It’s difficult for us, today, to imagine the atmosphere of Second World War America, when wartime propaganda was designed, as wartime propaganda always is, to make us hate our enemies: the Germans and the Japanese. Racism, of course, played a huge part in US anti-Japanese messages so imagine the lives of Japanese women who married American soldiers in the years after the war and came to America, strangers in a strange and unwelcoming land. That’s the story told in the documentary, Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides. There were thousands of these marriages; Marlene Blackwell is the daughter of one of them. Marlene Blackwell will take part in a Q & A after the screening next Monday at Cafe Julia in the downtown Honolulu YWCA on Richards Street, at 7pm.
- Intro Music: Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides (Trailer)
- Outro Music: Fight Song Instrumental (Rachel Platten) by Muhammad_Fakhrul
