Where does sewage go and how does it get there? Most of us don’t think much about such things. Until a sewage pipe breaks. Remember the sewage dumped into the Ala Wai Canal? It took a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of effort, and a lot of pipe to fix that … Read More »

Television shows with cooking competitions are all the rage these days. Everyone wants to be a chef and get their 15-minutes of fame. Guess who’s one of America’s top chefs? The Foodland Supermarket Chef, Keoni Chang. He won the Food Marketing Institute’s first Supermarket Chef Showdown in Dallas. For that, Chang gets a two day … Read More »

What happened to the University of Hawaii men’s basketball team? Players are defecting faster than the audience watching John Carter at Ward Center’s theaters. No one expects Hawaii to be a great basketball team. We’d just like to have an occasional trip to the NCAA Tournament and a winning season. Last season the team was … Read More »

For all the beauty and serenity of Hawaii’s islands, death lurks ever menacingly, ever near. Every week or so a hiker gets lost on a mountain trail with a beautiful view and has to be rescued. Tourists get caught in an undertow on a scenic beach and have to be rescued. Who can save Hawaii’s … Read More »

Native birds love to eat taro in Hawaii. Kauai farmers say there’s just not enough taro to go around if the birds are going to eat it and not pay for it. Farmers grow the taro for fun and profit. But mostly profit. The nene eat the root. The Hawaiian Moorhen and Coot eat the … Read More »

Construction has already begun on Honolulu’s rapid transit system (rapid is to describe how fast the people move from one point to another, not how fast the system is constructed). What’s first on the list? Holes. A huge drilling machine began the project in an Ewa Beach cornfield by drilling large holes. The holes are … Read More »