Hawaii History

... the first evening tour of the ʻIolani Palace held in over a year ....

... 2,439,075 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Hawai‘i. DOH estimates 73.2% of the state’s population has received either two doses ....

... Father Damien, who had just been diagnosed with leprosy, needed an assistant to help him carry on his work after he was gone. Dutton threw himself into the work ....

... After years rotting in Hawaii, a 19th century Clyde-built ship is finally coming home ....

... New report details how Jones Act targeted Alaska from the start ....

"Manufactured attacks on critical race theory aim to dismantle ongoing efforts to provide an equitable education for all keiki" -- HSTA

... the science behind creating vaccines is not new. It has been around for more than 200 years ....

... Would the Hawaiian Kingdom Compel Everyone to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine? The Answer is “YES” ....

... we have now submitted our bid in the RFP process, set up recently by DOT Harbours Dept of Honolulu, for the removal of the Falls of Clyde ....

... there are at least eight separate federal Jones Acts ....

... DOT says solicitation for removal of the historic Falls of Clyde canceled, to be reissued in July ....

... At least six other current and former members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation have supported such legislation one or more times ....

... They were authorized via special legislation approved by Congress, including members of Hawaii’s own delegation ....

... “We’re not proud of it.  But crystal methamphetamine is our gift to the nation. It started here.” -- Judge and Former US Attorney Ed Kubo ....

... HR148 to change McKinley High School’s name back to Honolulu High School will be heard by the House Committee on Education on Thursday, March 18, at 2 p.m. ....

... Almost 15 years to the day since deadly Ka Loko flood March 14, 2006 ....

... Henry ‘Opukaha‘ia was born around 1792 in Ka‘u on Hawai‘i Island ....

... it’s the start to a very important year. ...

... 2020 STARTED OUT like any other year, but ....

...Hawaii’s Lum Crime Family is back in the news—allegedly channeling a Malaysian billionaire’s money to buy Chinese communist influence in Donald Trump’s White House via a top Trump fundraiser--convicted fraudster Elliott Broidy....

... The state still owes another 1,300 acres to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands ....

...As we mark 75 years since the cessation of hostilities in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War....

... How many individuals can boast of leaving a legacy for liberty? ....

...The former Army officer and insurance executive was 71 when he set out to educate Hawaii residents about the benefits of freedom....

... “If you are going to get the cost of living down … you are going to have to get the Jones Act amended.”  -- Alaska Gov. Walter Hickel, speaking to the Hawaii Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 12, 1967 ....

... How Vice President Richard Nixon handled Hawaii's disputed electoral votes in 1960 ....

...Federal authorities charged former top fundraiser for the Republican National Committee Elliott Broidy with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent over his alleged involvement in a secretive effort to lobby the Trump administration....

...“This is what patriarchy and white supremacist culture looks like!” Ocasio-Cortez said....

When Hawaii became the 50th U.S. State in 1959, the historic occasion was marked by ceremonies within the sanctuary walls of the Kawaiaha‘o Church .... 

...the 1918 flu, also called the Spanish Flu, had a significant impact on Hawaiʻi, claiming more than 2,300 lives while actually peaking in 1920....

...A new set of child molestation allegations is the subject of a lawsuit against Kamehameha Schools filed April 3, 2020, in Hawaii’s First Circuit Court....

Henry Opukahai'a was an orphan raised by his uncle to be a pagan priest....

...the first Hawaii case which uses the term "police power"....

...to and from Australia and New Zealand, freight costs have increased substantially....

...programs at Kailua Pier from 8am to 10:30am, as well as free programs at Mokuaikaua Church and Huliheʻe Palace from 11am to 4pm, April 4, 2020....

...Hawaii lost its elected county sheriffs as a result of the Massie case....

...Gov. David Ige and first lady Dawn Amano-Ige, together with the Washington Place Foundation, are inviting the public to a special Christmas Open House from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, December 20....

..."The Hawai'i, New England Connection," a 30-day tour of History Theatre, panel discussions, and cultural events....

...the taxes that have changed the most dramatically in the past 30 years....

...In 1884 the five-inch refractor was installed in a dome constructed above Pauahi Hall.... 

...Here is the story of what Alaskans did, (and Hawaii did not) as told by former Alaska Governor and US Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel....

...It pains me to read stories of people who lost their homes after being told that they didn’t have to pay back their mortgages because the laws under which they were made were invalid in Hawaii....

...Mike announced that his wife and boys would not be able to eat most of what his mother had cooked, as they were now vegetarian. Also, everyone needed to stop calling the children by their birth names. Their new names were Bhakti, Jai, and Naryana....

...A decade after the first missionaries arrived, the gospel tore across the islands in the 1830s....

...Restoration of Scottish sailing boat offered as ‘lifeline’ to now-closed Appledore Shipyard....

...Four themes emerged from the Twitter data during the early period: 1) information processing; 2) information sharing; 3) authentication; and 4) emotional reaction....

...Joseph Dutton heard about Father Damien's work in Hawaii and joined him, helping the sick in the leper colony for 45 years....

"...if we fail to make our party representative of our diverse population, it will be...years before a two-party system comes back to Hawai'i...."

...I asked him to use his influence to reverse the policy initiated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt allowing Kaho'olawe to be used for bombing practice....