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Lee Cataluna: Work from home era may leave rail behind
Somewhere, somebody must be keeping track of how many times the “ready to roll” date has been moved back for the Honolulu rail project. It would be a number somewhat smaller, but every bit as predictable, as the number of times the estimated cost of the project has been ratcheted up. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: John Radcliffe starts saying goodbye and other things
John Radcliffe’s days are booked up with what he calls “last lunch” appointments. Radcliffe, 78, the former high-profile union leader and bulldog lobbyist, has known his cancer was terminal since his diagnosis in 2014. He was initially given six to 24 months to live, but he seems to have negotiated his own terms with the disease. He knows it will take him in the end, and the end may be getting… → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Realistic economic recovery will be uncomfortable
If you’ve ever been through major surgery or been with someone who is recovering from surgery, you know that a significant factor in recovery is the mean nurse who makes you get up and walk. The nurse might not actually be mean at all, just serious and professional and focused on the goal of making you well, but when you’re lying there feeling weak and vulnerable, having someone say it’s time to… → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Sen. Breene Harimoto put service before self
Sen. Breene Harimoto called himself “maybe the most reluctant political candidate ever.” → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Reopening is great but rules still confusing
Karaoke bars can open in Honolulu, but there’s no singing allowed. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Measures for flying too new to be routine
Remember when airlines started flying again after Sept. 11, 2001, and just traveling between the islands took on a whole new level of seriousness, security and bureaucracy? Who would have ever thought that interisland travel would get even more complicated than that? → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Decades of warnings by Hawaii governors to diversity the economy never heeded
For more than 50 years, Hawaii’s governors have warned about the need to diversify the economy. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: A timeline for Hawaii to return to normal doesn’t exist
It’s tempting to think that the new coronavirus is pau. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Instead of fighting each other, fight for Hawaii
Our state is facing arguably its greatest economic crisis since WWII, and the brain trust in charge of charting a path out of this economic devastation is whining about how they’re getting their feelings hurt by members of the Senate Special Committee on COVID-19. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Protest in Waikiki peaceful, powerful
On Friday at noon at Ala Moana Park, the protest began with these words: → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Woman made sure Hawaii libraries had Korean-language material
Sook-Ki Kim Moon so believed in the transformative power of books, she gave her money, time, business acumen and organizational skills to build a collection of Korean-language material for the Hawaii State Library that now totals close to 30,000 books. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Quarantined visitor follows Golden Rule
This is a story about a visitor to Hawaii who took the 14-day quarantine very seriously. For two weeks he didn’t venture from the address he wrote on the form he filled out when he landed in Honolulu. He answered his cellphone when authorities checked up on him. Friends brought him supplies while maintaining social distancing. He stayed put and stayed busy. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Coronavirus lockdown brought surprise perks across occupations
As Hawaii, along with the rest of the country, reopens in earnest, a question people have been asking each other in Zoom room gatherings or pondering alone in quiet reflection is, “What were the lessons of the last two months of staying at home? What will you take with you from this time into the post-lockdown era?” → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Focus on getting better rather than getting back
Some people are saying — carefully, as though bracing for blowback — that Hawaii is actually greatly improved with so few tourists here crowding every little corner of the islands and pushing their way around. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Anonymous donor’s gift to kupuna gives us all something to smile about
Hours later, Foodland was still buzzing. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Vandals out during stay-at-home orders
Honolulu is a patch-painted city. Everywhere you go, on the highway overpasses, retaining walls, bridges and utility boxes, there are sections of mismatched paint put there to cover up some unreadable scrawl of graffiti. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Community taking over quarantine enforcement
It is very hard to get busted for flying into Hawaii and breaking the mandatory 14-day quarantine for inbound travelers. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Confusion reigns, and government sets the tone
Clinical psychologist Ana Nogales wrote about the emotional stages of coping with the pandemic in a piece published last month in Psychology Today. Similar to the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross “Stages of Grief,” Nogales laid out the recognizable phases people are experiencing during this time of lockdown and fear, though she notes that “the order, duration and severity of which they are experienced… → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Hawaii quarantine enforcement efforts misplaced
Expecting tourists to obey a 14-day quarantine for the good of a community they don’t live in has proved to be naive and unrealistic. They’re here to have fun in the sun. Our “concerns” are getting in their way. → Read More
Lee Cataluna: Church hui produces inspirational song for the times
The congregation made a donation of hundreds of gloves to Castle Medical Center. → Read More