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Reading Joan Didion Taught Me How to Not Write About Hawaiʻi

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

“Didion depicts Hawaiʻi as a place that exists solely in the white American imagination, and, because of this, her journalism is a fiction.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 15, 2022October 19, 2022

There’s an increasing number of people native to Hawaii who can no longer afford to live there, nor do they have the means to leave. Those who can’t do either end up houseless. Eric Stinton reports on the current state of real estate on the islands: how they got there, proposed solutions, and what will […]

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Battle to Save Waikiki Beach

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 2, 2022October 19, 2022

“No longer are coastal cities arguing about whether warming poses a monumental threat, but about the best way to respond.”

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Hawai‘i Is Not Our Playground

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 13, 2021October 19, 2022

“To most outsiders, Hawai‘i is defined by the lei-draped, aloha-dispensing, honeymooner-welcoming image of the place. There’s no room for another version to emerge.”

Posted inNonfiction

How I Became ‘Rich’

by Stacy Torres June 20, 2019February 24, 2023

During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.

Posted inFeature

The Hunt for Planet Nine

by Shannon Stirone January 22, 2019October 18, 2022

What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?

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Prisoners in Hawaii Are Being Sent to Die in Private Prisons in Arizona

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands March 6, 2017October 19, 2022

Forty-three percent of Hawaii’s state prisoners are currently locked up in the notorious Saguaro Correctional Center in Arizona. This is the story of one man, Johnathan, who died in custody just days before his 22nd birthday.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Telescope That Sees into the Heart of Hawaii

by Aaron Gilbreath February 21, 2017October 19, 2022

Trevor Quirk reports on how native Hawaiians protested the construction of a telescope on spiritual grounds — the presence of which cuts to the very question of who gets to decide what happens on Hawaiian soil — and who the soil belongs to.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

A Murder in Hawaii: The Two Trials of Maryann Acker

by benhuberman September 30, 2015October 19, 2022

After three decades, author Linda Spaldin tries to help exonerate a woman on whose trial she had been a juror.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

The Astronauts and the ‘Nutella Incident’

by juliawick April 20, 2015October 19, 2022

Their persistently cheery e-mail updates [from the crew in the Hawaii-based simulation] raise a question: Does a happy crew tell NASA anything useful? Binsted argues that upbeat blog posts don’t always tell the whole story. Small gripes often emerge in the post-study interviews, when subjects know that their replies will be kept anonymous. It was […]

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