Dr. Jane’s resolutions for a healthy, happy New Year (for you)
Often around this time of year people make all sorts of resolutions, usually around their weight or their workouts or their money spending habits or resolving to use less profanity or some such behavior modification.
What’s a carbon tax?
Recently, the Hawaii Tax Review Commission’s primary consultant, PFM Group, issued a final report to the commission asking it to review many taxing alternatives, including a “carbon tax” that had the potential to put an additional $360 million per year into our state coffers (assuming a tax rate of $20 per metric ton of CO2 released).
Island economy depends heavily on tourism
The increasing number of visitors to Kauai continues to impact the island’s economy and infrastructure. Nearly 80 percent of the business at Poipu Beach’s Brennecke’s Beach Broiler and Nukumoi Surf Company comes from tourism, according to owner Bob French.
Talk Story: Brian Kohatsu
For one Kauai man, turning a series of tragedies into triumphs inspires him to help others who have hit rock bottom.
Working on the island of Niihau
During 1993, while employed as a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomological technician, I had the privilege of visiting Niihau several times to assist entomologist Dr. Roger Vargas with his insect survey of the island.
A look back at the look ahead: Grading 2017 predictions
I like to be held accountable for my actions. Well, within reason. Let’s not go crazy, here. But if I make a prediction of somesort, I don’t want it to just float off into the ether. I’ll take the flak for any misguided prognostications.
I made some predictions on Jan. 1, so now that we’ve reached the 2017 calendar’s final inch of real estate, let’s see howthose panned out.
Pence’s Colorado neighbors welcome him with a ‘Make America Gay Again’ banner
Now that’s a New Year’s resolution. Vice President Mike Pence, who’s spending the holidays in Aspen, Colo., with his family, got a not so-subtle message of scorn from a neighbor in the liberal ski resort town earlier this week.
2 men charged in deaths of women, children found in home
Two men were arrested Saturday on murder charges in the deaths of two women and two children who were found dead in their upstate New York apartment.
New economic protests in Tehran challenge Iran’s government
A wave of spontaneous protests over Iran’s weak economy swept into Tehran on Saturday, with college students and others chanting against the government just hours after hard-liners held their own rally in support of the Islamic Republic’s clerical establishment.
California man arrested after fatal Kansas police shooting
Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas, law enforcement officials said Saturday.
Warm hearts, subzero temps: Couple gets engaged on mountain
Extreme cold didn’t get in the way of a heartwarming proposal on an icy mountainside.
Texting ban may soon be enforced on Florida’s deadly roads
Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Mark Wysocky says it is hard to separate texting drivers from drunken drivers as he cruises down a suburban interstate highway. Both weave. They speed up and slow down for no obvious reason and get too close to other cars. They endanger their lives and others.
Media group: 81 reporters died, threats soared in 2017
At least 81 reporters were killed doing their jobs this year, while violence and harassment against media staff has skyrocketed, the world’s biggest journalists’ organization says.
Aloha Stadium ready for pro soccer teams after renovations
Aloha Stadium is ready to welcome back professional soccer teams after a series of renovations, said officials from the Honolulu stadium.
Guinness declares Hawaii woman’s avocado a record breaker
Guinness World Records confirmed this week that a Hawaii woman found the world’s heaviest avocado.
Police rescue seal pup waddling around Cape Cod highway
A baby seal that wandered far from the ocean has been returned to the sea with the help of some police officers on Cape Cod.
Deep South braces for blast of freezing weather as 2017 ends
Potentially life-threatening cold spread across the Deep South on Saturday, as forecasters issued winter weather advisories in multiple states and warned that freezing temperatures would likely last for the next several days.
2 Las Vegas security guards fatally shot in hotel-casino
Two Las Vegas security guards were fatally shot Saturday while investigating a disturbance in a room at a hotel-casino and the suspected shooter is facing critical injuries after turning the gun on himself, police said.
Births for Saturday, December 30, 2017
• Talen Kawika Kailihao Hesapene • Elle Senko Guerrero
Obituaries for Saturday, December 30, 2017
• Annette C. Cassidy • Mark Andrew Segretti
Prediction: More plastic is coming
A 40 percent rise in plastic production is on the horizon, according to the American Chemistry Council, and that presents a big problem for little islands like Kauai, conservationists say.
Kamehameha Schools invests more than $1.9 million on Kauai, Niihau
The Wai‘ale‘ale Project at Kauai Community College provides financial, academic and other supports to reduce barriers for students who otherwise were not bound for college. The Wai‘ale‘ale Project is among more than a dozen programs on Kauai and Niihau in collaboration with Kamehameha Schools to strengthen the achievements of Native Hawaiian learners.
Holiday giving a Grand Hyatt tradition
The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa ohana went big with giving in the 2017 holiday season. Benevolence was ever present as employees from all departments at the resort gave in some way.
Police conducting sobriety checkpoints
Kauai Police Department officers continue to conduct roadside sobriety checkpoints at various locations around the island well into the new year.
Coco Palms hearing erupts into court chaos
The courtroom drama unfolding had little to do with the testimony before District Court Judge Michael Soong. It involved bailiff Lou Jeal trying to physically remove a spectator from the courtroom.