VOICES: Kaua‘i County Charter Review Commission recommends 4 amendments
Four amendments to the Kaua‘i County Charter will be up for public vote in the upcoming General Election.
Letters for Sunday, October 16, 2022
• Car horn honking not acceptable • Online ticket sales miss valuable audience
ISLAND HISTORY: Robert Allerton, founder of National Tropical Botanical Garden
In 1937, wealthy sixty-four-year-old patron of the arts and philanthropist Robert Allerton (1873-1964) bought the 125-acre McBryde Estate located on Lawai Bay, Kauai, paying $50,000 for the property that had once belonged to Queen Emma.
CRITTER: Meet ulua la‘uli the black jack
Here in the main Hawaiian Islands we often see ‘omilu the bluefin trevally and ulua aukea the giant trevally.
K-DRAMA: Kang-ho drowns his sorrow by drinking
Following are this week’s synopses of shows on KBFD TV, which televises Korean dramas with English subtitles:
BBB: Report: Online scams have risen 87% since 2015
Tactics used by scammers have shifted drastically during the past several years, according to a new report published by the Better Business Bureau. During the same period, scams perpetrated via phone dropped 42%.
TAXMAN: State financial condition still dismal
Here in Hawaii, we have weathered a major pandemic. The primary driver of our economy is, and has been for a long time, tourism
Obituaries for Sunday, October 16, 2022
• Jerry Eric Lagazo Jr. • Marlene Claudette Blair • Kiyoko Tsubota • Gloria Bunao Gacusan • Florence ‘Babe’ Acain • Edward Robert Kauhi-a-hiwa Ka‘iwi • Norma Costales Bautista • Florendo Balais Lacerona • Bessie Duran Garbo • Leimomi Bal Crowell
Biden’s late push across West aims to deliver votes for Dems
PORTLAND, Ore. — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began making calls and eating doughnuts — one frosted, one glazed — as he tries every page in the political playbook to deliver votes for Democrats.
Musk has a ‘super app’ plan for Twitter. It’s super vague
Elon Musk has a penchant for the letter “X.” He calls his son with the singer Grimes, whose actual name is a collection of letters and symbols, “X.” He named the company he created to buy Twitter “X Holdings.” His rocket company is, naturally, SpaceX.
After Hurricane Ian, Florida citrus and agriculture struggle
ZOLFO SPRINGS, Fla. — The thousands of oranges scattered on the ground by Hurricane Ian’s fierce winds like so many green and yellow marbles are only the start of the disaster for citrus grower Roy Petteway.
Native Americans recall torture, hatred at boarding schools
MISSION, S.D. — After her mother died when Rosalie Whirlwind Soldier was just four years old, she was put into a Native American boarding school in South Dakota and told her native Lakota language was “devil’s speak.”
Violent week a grim sign as targeted killings of police rise
SEATTLE — The shooting deaths of two Connecticut officers and wounding of a third punctuated an especially violent week for police across the U.S. and fit into a grim pattern: Even as more officers left their jobs in the past two years, the number targeted and killed rose.
Russia military range shooting leaves 11 dead, 15 wounded
MOSCOW — Two men fired at soldiers on a Russian military firing range near Ukraine on Saturday, killing 11 and wounding 15 before being slain themselves, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Ukraine and Russia work to gain advantage in annexed regions
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine — Regions of southern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin illegally annexed saw more heavy fighting Saturday as Ukrainian soldiers pressed a ground campaign to recapture one, and Russian forces fired long-range missiles and deployed Iranian-made drones in another.
Biden: Truss plan a ‘mistake’ amid ‘worldwide inflation’
PORTLAND, Ore. — President Joe Biden on Saturday called embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss’ abandoned tax cut plan a “mistake,” and said he is worried that other nations’ fiscal policies may hurt the U.S. amid “worldwide inflation.”
In France, fuel crisis frays nerves and workers’ resilience
VERSAILLES, France — Even close to midnight on a school night, the tipoff was too important to ignore: A nearby gas station had just been resupplied.
Musk: SpaceX might keep funding satellite service in Ukraine
NEW YORK — Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in a Saturday tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its satellite-based Starlink internet service in Ukraine. But Musk’s tone and wording also raised the possibility that the irascible Tesla CEO was just being sarcastic.
KCCSW donates feminine hygiene products to outreach services
LIHU‘E — The Kaua‘i County Committee on the Status of Women (KCCSW) hosted a special presentation on Friday with Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami and three outreach agencies to receive donated feminine hygiene product packets from the committee that was spearheaded by Kathy Crowell.
$1.2M secured for UH to train community health workers
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded $1.28 million in federal funding to the University of Hawai‘i (UH) Systems to train new community health workers.
Lana‘i man cited for possession of illegal throw net
LANA‘I CITY — While patrolling the shoreline on the north side of Lana’i, a Department of Land and Natural Resources
Justice Dept. seeks end to arbiter’s review of Trump docs
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court on Friday to shut down the work of an independent arbiter who was appointed last month to review documents seized during an FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate.
Idaho man dies while fighting as volunteer in Ukraine
BOISE, Idaho — In the days since Dane Partridge was fatally wounded while serving as a volunteer soldier in Ukraine, his sister has found moments of comfort in surprising places: First, a misplaced baseball cap discovered in her laundry room, then in a photo of a battered pickup truck with only one tire intact.
Walker denies previous support for national abortion ban
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker on Friday denied his previous support for an outright national ban on abortion, making the shift in his lone debate against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Biden pushing lower prescription drug costs in midterm press
IRVINE, California — President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs on Friday as part of his three-state Western tour this week, as he confronts a sobering inflation report in the waning weeks before midterm elections.