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Navy launches major construction project; Local publishing house celebrates 45 years; How can we make lūʻau more authentic?
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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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Convoy leaders will pull over when safe to do so to allow local traffic to pass them in an effort to reduce traffic congestion.
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Ron Cianfarani, the final Makapuʻu Lighthouse keeper back in the '70s, recently returned during a visit to Hawaiʻi. Coast Guard members gave him a special tour of the lighthouse to honor his service and his part in Hawaiʻi's lighthouse history. The Conversation's Catherine Cruz has more.
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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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Massive black granite walls stand inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 men and women who died or remain missing from the Vietnam War. The memorial is an iconic fixture in Washington, D.C., that many from Hawaiʻi won't ever have a chance to see. But that's changing this month. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol reports it's a rare opportunity on Hawaiʻi Island and Maui.
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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.
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Defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton took part in the gathering that zeroed in on strategies for dealing with cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. The Conversation talked to the company's Global Defense Sector President Judi Dotson and Chief Technology Officer Ed Barnabas about the company's efforts to build our local workforce.
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The Navy has started removing tens of thousands of gallons of sludge and leftover fuel from the tanks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility. The Joint Task Force-Red Hill finished gravity-draining 104 million gallons of fuel from the facility in December. What’s leftover is sediment and fuel that can’t be drained through gravity. HPR's Mark Ladao has more.
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To mark a decade since 27,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from an underground tank in the Navy's Red Hill facility, The Conversation's Catherine Cruz spoke to representatives from the Honolulu Board of Water Supply and the Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi. BWS Manager Ernest Lau said he doesn't want to take any chances with Honolulu's drinking water.