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Is shoplifting on the rise?; Challenges ahead for the Navy's $3 billion overhaul of the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam drydock; Queen Liliʻuokalani's portrait returns to ʻIolani Palace
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An upcoming meeting between the Red Hill Community Representation Initiative group and military officials could be contentious. The Conversation talked to CRI Chair Marti Townsend about the power struggle over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-mandated meetings.
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Kauaʻi County Mayor Derek Kawakami outlines his priorities in his recent State of the County address; House Speaker Scott Saiki on the condo property insurance crisis
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The Navy finally released its report on a handful of homes that were reporting fuel contamination in their drinking water, specifically TPH, total petroleum hydrocarbons. Two military wives say they don't trust the findings, adding that if the 271-page report was supposed to make them feel better, it did not.
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Military residents respond to the Navy's report on fuel contamination in a handful homes last fall; New research on using soundscapes to map reef health
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At a recent meeting between a Red Hill community group and military officials, a number of military wives shared their frustration about continuing to report intermittent sheens and chemical odors in housing on the Navy's water system. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke to one woman who hoped for more proactive water testing.
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A resident shares her experience after fuel was discovered in the Navy water system in 2021; An upcoming rally at the State Capitol is set to bring awareness to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Heidi Nicholls is a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has been researching the working conditions during the construction of the Navy Red Hill fuel tanks in the early 1940s.
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HPR takes a tour of Honolulu's Chinatown; the lives of workers who constructed the Red Hill underground fuel facility; expanding opportunities for women in esports
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The newly stood-up Navy Closure Task Force-Red Hill appears to be off to a rough start. A community group maintains the Navy is trying to strong-arm a process agreed to under a work order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Navy said it would look to meetings in February and March, indicating it wants to restructure the gatherings to make them more productive.