The Last Job in Hawaii; Staying Ahead of Climate Change; Exploring the Creative Process
Proposed Charter Amendment 7: Maxine Burkett
For Oahu voters yet to cast their ballots, part of this election experience will include answering 20 amendment questions that could change Honolulu’s charter. It’s a once in ten-year opportunity to modernize what amounts to the City’s constitution. One of the questions - number 7 - asks whether the city should create an Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency. UH law school professor, Maxine Burkett teaches Climate Change Law and Policy, Ocean and Coastal Law, and International Environmental Law. I asked her for her read of Charter Question 7- and whether it could create more focus or additional bureaucracy.
Intro Music: Tightrope by WALK THE MOON
Outro Music: Cosby Sweater by Hilltop Hoods
Exploring the Creative Process with Singer/Songwriter Iyeoka
Iyeoka is a poet and singer, a Nigerian-American performing artist for whom music, words spoken and sung, and spectacle merge. Her African heritage is very much in evidence in her work, as is her unfettered curiosity about the world. Curiosity and creative freedom are qualities she wants to help others find within themselves, and she’s offering a workshop with that goal in mind at HPR this Friday.
Intro Music: Simply Falling by Iyeoka
Outro Music: Black Coffee by Iyeoka
Civil Beat Reality Check: USMC Helicopter Crash Investigation
What happens when pilot error, lack of training and command problems combine? In a Marine helicopter flight last January, the mix brought tragedy. Civil Beat reporter Chad Blair has the details of the report on the crash.
Intro Music: Dynamite (feat. Pretty Sister) by Nause
Outro Music: Otherways by NONA
Last Job In Hawaii: Jerry Michalski
When was the last time you called a company and had a real person answer the phone? How often do you do your banking with the auto teller? For most of us, these experiences are daily occurrences, and in the coming years, we’ll have more of them as simple and complex jobs replace people with automation. Despite the forecast for this trend, we’re also told that the average person will have at least ten jobs during her working life. But in the near future, what kind of jobs will they be? Today we start our series, The Last Job in Hawaii. We called Jerry Michalski, the head of the think tank R E X - the Relationship Economy eXpedition to find out if companies, their human resources departments and independent HR firms are taking notice of the growing movement toward job automation.
Outro Music: Tape Machine by STRFKR
TAG’s Production of Velocity of Autumn, Vanita Rae Smith
We all want to end our lives with dignity, in familiar surroundings, but life doesn’t always make that easy. Money is always an issue, and sometimes our own family stands in the way. Older people can find themselves in a situation where their loved ones are making decisions about their lives -- talking around them, as if they weren't there. It’s frustrating, and Alexandra, the central character in the play “the velocity of autumn” isn’t about to stand for it. Vanita Rae Smith is directing the Actors Group production, and she’s on the phone with us this morning.
Intro Music: Whirling by the Joy Formidable
Outro Music: September Song by Ella Fitzgerald
