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The Conversation: Reaction to Red Hill disciplinary action; Spotlighting National Poetry Month

Published April 5, 2022 at 3:39 PM HST

Officials tour Navy Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility — FILE - (Sept. 15, 2015) A visit to one of the empty fuel tanks at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Laurie Dexter/Released)

Richard Spiegel, NAVSUP Director of Corporate Communication, and Wayne Tanaka, Chapter Director for the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi, discuss the removal of Capt. Albert Hornyak from command of the Navy Supply Fleet Logistics Center due to a Red Hill leak| Full Story
Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Christina Jedra shares details about the closure of three Honolulu homeless shelters | Full Story
Local poet Craig Santos Perez shares "Rings of Fire" from Habitat Threshold, a collection of eco-poems released during the pandemic | Full Story
Author Lynette Lo Tom, shares over 100 dishes in the cookbook, Yum Yum Cha: Let’s Eat Dim Sum in Hawaii, which was the brainchild of Muriel Miura | Full Story

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