Aloha,
Happy New Year to you and your ʻohana. I hope 2025 is a year of good health, happiness and healing.
Instead of talking about resolutions, including zero-probability of me losing weight, I thought it was far more important to talk politics. Not the mudslinging, name-calling and fearmongering politics that causes anger, hate and division; I’m talking about the politics happening in our backyard.
There was a time when local newsrooms poured a ton of resources into covering the legislature. KHON2 assigned at least two reporters to the State Capitol, seasoned veterans who understood the important role they played as the community’s watchdogs. It wasn’t “gotcha” journalism, rather it was about holding decision-makers accountable and keeping the public informed. They were some of the giants of the local news industry – Jim McCoy, Chris Parsons, Ann Botticelli, Nestor Garcia, Ray Lovell, Nalani Blaisdell, Bruce Voss and perhaps the most respected and feared of them all, the late Barbara Marshall.
Those days are no more and that’s a shame because their presence, along with every journalist who walked the halls at the square building on Beretania Street, were our ears, eyeballs and in many ways, our voices.
As this year’s legislative session approaches, it’s important to understand the issues being discussed and voted on. From education, affordable housing, transportation and healthcare, to inflation, child and kūpuna care, homelessness and crime, the outcomes of each vote will affect you or someone you know. This is our moment to stay involved and help shape the future of Hawaiʻi. It is our collective responsibility to advocate for what’s best for us, ensure our voices are heard and our priorities addressed.
At PBS Hawaiʻi, we’re committed to keeping you informed with trustworthy coverage of the legislative process. Please join us live on Thursday, January 9 at 7:30 pm on INSIGHTS on PBS Hawaiʻi, for a preview of this year’s session.
Politics can be nasty, but it doesn’t have to be dirty.
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Ron Mizutani
President and CEO
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Break out your boombox and dust off your baggy jeans for Season 2 of Alanui Mele. In January we talk first with Kamasami Kong, the host of Breakin’ Hawaiʻi (1984), one of the first TV shows that featured local breakers, poppers and lockers. Then we visit with Lionel Wright who, in 1991, released one of Hawaiʻi’s first rap CDs, Hyped, Dope, Def & Direct with his crew, Club Rox Rock. Listen anywhere you download your podcasts or watch new episodes on our YouTube playlist.
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| Join Jerry Santos as he steps up to our PBS Hawaiʻi Song Challenge! Players are given a word and have ten seconds to sing a song with that word in it. Check out our YouTube channel and find out how he did!
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Last year, nearly 6.9 million Americans aged 65 and older were living with Alzheimer’s, with women making up two-thirds of those affected. In Hawaiʻi, an estimated 100,000 kūpuna are impacted by Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. What are the symptoms? How can we help? What support and resources are out there? Join us live on Thursday, January 30 at 7:30 pm as we gather experts, community members and others to discuss this important issue affecting so many in our community.
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| Join us on Tuesday, January 21 at 1:00 pm for a virtual screening of Kai Piha: Diamond Head Makai. Hawaiʻi filmmaker Anne Marie Kirk partners with historian and surfer John Clark to provide a detailed history of the beaches, surf breaks and shoreline of Diamond Head. Clark takes viewers on a tour from the Kāhala side of this state monument along the shoreline westward towards Kapiʻolani Park.
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Maui’s Deadly Firestorm is a new FRONTLINE report on the deadliest American wildfire in a century, which killed 102 people and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, Maui in August 2023. The film documents the missed warnings that made the fire so unstoppable, the chaotic response to the disaster and how changes to the landscape have made Maui increasingly vulnerable to fires.
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FINDING YOUR ROOTS is back, with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. digging deep into the family trees of celebrated individuals. In Larger Than Life, he introduces Lea Salonga to ancestors who are every bit as dramatic as the characters she’s played on stage. Others featured in this season’s lineup include Amy Tan, Chrissy Teigen, José Andrés and Laurence Fishburne.
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