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Mayor Forum Monday in Kona; Many Forums Islandwide

July 8, 2012
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Mayor Forum Monday in Kona; Many Forums Islandwide

The three major candidates for Hawaii County Mayor will meet in their second moderated candidate forum on Monday, July 9, at Kealakehe High School at 6 p.m.  Incumbent Mayor Billy Kenoi faced his challengers, County Council Chair Dominic Yagong and former Mayor Harry Kim, last Thursday at Sangha Hall before a crowd of more than 450 people.   The candidates answered questions about budget, garbage, alternative power, and more.  The exchanges, especially between Mayor Kenoi and Dominic Yagong, at times got heated.  But former Mayor Harry Kim got a bit hot under the collar, too, when…

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Mayor Candidates in the Hot Seat Starting Thursday

July 3, 2012
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There are several candidate forums coming up, with the candidates for Hawaii County Mayor up this week and next. Thursday, July 5, 6 p.m., a Mayor Forum at Sangha Hall, sponsored by Hawaii Island Chamber of Commerce, Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Kanoelehua Industrial Area Association, Hawaii Island Board of Realtors, Hawaii Island Contractors Association.  The forum will include three of the six candidates for Mayor:   incumbent Mayor Billy Kenoi, who is seeking a second term; former Mayor Harry Kim, who’s seeking to return to public life after 8 years as Mayor and four years of…

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HPR’s Schiller Featured in New York Times

June 23, 2012
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HPR’s Schiller Featured in New York Times

A Hawaii classical music host who has become a “friend” to many on Hawaii Island is featured in an article in the Sunday, June 24 New York Times.  Gene Schiller hosts two daily classical music programs plus a Sunday morning request show, on Hawaii Public Radio’s HPR 1, at 90.7 fm on the West side of Hawaii Island and 91.1 fm on the East side of Hawaii Island.   Schiller says the article’s author,  Matthew Gurewitsch, spends time in Hawaii and contacted him about his work.    Gurewitsch says in the article, “thanks to Mr. Schiller,…

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Hirono and Case to Debate on PBS Hawaii This Thursday

June 11, 2012
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This Thursday, June 14, PBS Hawaii will carry the only debate to be televised statewide to which Congresswoman Mazie Hirono has agreed in advance of the August 11 primary.  She will face her major opponent for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Senate Daniel Akaka. Retired University of Hawaii Professor Dan Boylan will moderate the debate.  Boylan hosts the weekly Island Insights program on PBS. Hirono will also face Case Wednesday, June 13,  in a forum that will air on Hawaii Public Radio at 7 p.m.   Hirono…

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HPR to Air Hirono-Case Forum Wednesday Evening

June 10, 2012
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HPR to Air Hirono-Case Forum Wednesday Evening

Hawaii Public Radio will air a candidate forum on Wednesday evening, June 13, one of very few opportunities for voters to hear Conresswoman Mazie Hirono in a head-to-head meeting with her chief competitor in the race for the United State Senate, former Congressman Ed Case. Hirono has agreed to only five candidate forums before the August 11 primary, including this radio debate and one on Hawaii Public Television.   She declined requests for all candidate forums on Hawaii Island, with her staff saying that four on Oahu and one on Maui were sufficient. The forum on…

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Mazie Hirono “Just Says No” to Hawaii Island Forums

April 20, 2012
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Mazie Hirono “Just Says No” to Hawaii Island Forums

Congresswoman Mazie Hirono on Thursday released a list of  debates and candidate forums in which she will take part in advance of the State’s Primary Election.  Hirono will be facing several candidates in vying for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by Daniel Akaka.     She has scheduled no forums on Hawaii Island.   Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce is one of several organizations that have issued formal debate invitations to Congresswoman Hirono and former Congressman Ed Case, along with other candidates running for United States Senate.   The Chamber’s first formal…

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HPR Completes Fund Drive in Record Time

April 18, 2012
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HPR Completes Fund Drive in Record Time

Hawaii Public Radio, the statewide public radio station which broadcasts from Honolulu, completed their every-six-month pledge drive on Wednesday, April 18, at 4:30 p.m.  They raised $886,000, the amount of money they need to  operate the stations and provide improvements over the next six months. HPR General Manager Michael Titterton and the Board of the nonprofit radio station had set an ambitious goal.  The fund drives have traditionally been ten days.  But the decision was made to set a goal of completing the drive in 8 days–and they met that.   Titterton said there often seemed…

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Civil Beat Editor Going to Washington

March 29, 2012
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Civil Beat Editor Going to Washington

Civil Beat Editor and General Manager John Temple has accepted a new position as managing editor of The Washington Post.   Civil Beat started in 2010 as an online news web site and under Temple’s leadership has grown into a news source that partners with several other news organizations to help continue bringing objective journalism to the state.   Civil Beat has partnered with Hawaii Public Radio, KITV, Clear Channel/KHVH, the Maui News, and the Garden Island News.  Civil Beat was named Hawaii’s best overall news site in the Hawaii chapter of the Society of Professional…

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Former Hawaii County Supervisor James Hamasaki Dies

March 16, 2012
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Haruichi “James” Hamasaki, 89, a veteran of the famed  all-Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat Team and a former Hawaii County Supervisor, has died.  He died March 12, the day before his 90th birthday at the Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home in Hilo. Hamasaki was born in Hilo, one of 13 children.  He was attending San Francisco Junior College in 1941.  When World War II broke out, he went to live on his sister-in-law’s truck farm in Stockton, California…but he was interned on May 20, 1942.  He was interned in Stockton, then  spent nine months at…

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NPR’s Prairie Home Companion Airing Nationally Saturday from Honolulu

December 29, 2011
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Garrison Keillor and his Prairie Home Companion gang are on Oahu this week and will tape two programs at the Blaisdell Concert Hall Saturday for airing nationwide Saturday evening, New Year’s Eve,  on National Public Radio. The first program will be the usual Saturday evening broadcast, the traditional two-hour live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, and it will be heard in Hawaii on Hawaii Public Radio at 6 p.m. Saturday on KHPR,  90.7 fm in West Hawaii and at 91.1 fm in East Hawaii, or online, www.hawaiipublicradio.org. A Prairie Home…

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Tickets on Sale Now for Prairie Home Companion

October 31, 2011
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“Prairie Home Companion,” the nationally broadcast radio program developed by Garrison Keillor, will tape two performances in Honolulu on New Year’s Eve.  Tickets are on sale now.   The performances will be live on the East Coast and taped for broadcast in all other time zones, including here in Hawaii.  The programs will be on Saturday, December 31,  at  Honolulu’s Blaisdell concert Hall at 12:45 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.  The programs will air that same day–the first being the “regular” program, the second a special broadcast for New Year’s Eve. Tickets are on sale now…

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Waikiki Hotels Already Feeling Boost from APEC

October 27, 2011
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Howard Dicus of Hawaii News Now and Hawaii Public Radio reports hotels on Oahu are already getting a bump in occupancy from the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit.  Oahu occupancy is up to 85%, from 80% the week before.  Hawaii Island hotel occupancy is lagging at 57%, up only a percentage point from the week before.  Maui hotels are at 70% occupancy with Kaua’i at 69%.  Dicus says neighbor island hotels won’t benefit directly from APEC events, but some attendees will take tours, and some have booked vacations for before or after the summit,…

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Hawaii Public Radio Completes Second 2011 Pledge Drive

October 21, 2011
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Hawaii’s statewide public radio station completed its ten-day drive on Friday, October 21, at 5:11 p.m.  having raised $865,976.  Hawaii Public Radio’s president, Michael Titterton, had set the fund drive goal at $861,000, which was exactly the amount needed for the station to continue to be on air for six more months.  The station also counts on corporate donations and underwriting and grants.  It also gets about 10% of its budget from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is funded by the United States Congress in an appropriation. In the last couple of pledge drives,…

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