Hawaii History

... 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....

...The majority’s interpretation embraces the view that the legislature has authorized payment for fraud, collusion, embezzlement, and bad faith dealings....

...the first full bilingual Hawaiian-English Bible with modern diacritical markings....

...November 11, 2018 - Free to the Public Concerts, Films, Celebratory Service, Flyovers and Fireworks....

...Sovereignty flows from the will of the people.  The people’s will is statehood.  But the teacher’s union is pushing the rhetoric of an internationally-known anti-Semite to change your child's mind....

...Hero of Holocaust Deniers, Alfred De Zayas....

...if the last convention was so great, why won’t the next one also be great?....

...another provision that was passed by the 1978 Constitutional Convention to assure our fiscal health—and what our lawmakers have done to marginalize it....

...The saga of this credit tells us a little about a bold move undertaken in the 1978 Constitutional Convention and our lawmakers’ reaction....

...Reid said that she personally brought information about the harassment to Hirono....

...For Democrats, it’s always “Believe Women,” unless....

...Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL....

...in 1969 the only places in America where housing cost more than three times incomes were Hawaii and Stamford, Connecticut. I don’t know why Stamford was on the list, but Hawaii had passed legislation strictly regulating where people could build homes in 1961....

...Will Justice Brett Kavanaugh become the ‘critical’ 8th vote against racially discriminatory OHA elections?  Could Kavanaugh become the ‘decisive’ 10th vote against the Hawaii Supreme Court’s Ceded Lands Decision.  Or maybe Hirono is afraid Kavanaugh will be the fifth vote against Nai Aupuni....

...42 short essays on the history, democratic function, and politics of the periodic state constitutional convention referendum, including Hawaii’s November 6, 2018 convention referendum....

...In 1999 Kavanaugh helped write a friend-of-the-court brief in the Rice v Cayetano case....

...The true story of the January 13, 2018 Hawaii missile alert, told by the people who lived it....