Seven out of every ten hotel rooms in Hawaii were filled this past June. This number according to Hospitality Advisors and Smith Travel Research. While seven out of ten isn’t bad, that number was still down 0.7% from the same time last year. That resulted in a 2.9% decline in visitors. While hotel occupancy was […]
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Hawaii Health Insurers Post Big Profits
Hawaii Medical Service Association (HMSA) has reported a second quarter profit of $5.8 million. This was compared to a a loss of $4.1 million that was reported at this time last year. Kaiser Permanente Hawaii also reported a second quarter profit of $2.8 million, which was compared to a loss of $5.1 million at the […]
University of Hawaii is Considering a Football Game in Japan
The University of Hawaii is moving forward with plans to play a regular-season football game in Japan within the next few years. Jim Donovan, the school’s athletic director, revealed the prospect while in Osaka over the weekend for a men’s basketball game. Hawaii was finishing up a 15-day tour through China and Japan. The Rainbow […]
Charles Djou Announces Run for U.S. House Senate Seat
Former congressman Charles Djou announced that he would indeed run for Congress. The announcement did come with a small hitch though, as Djou announced that he would not start campaigning until late March because he is being deployed to Afghanistan. Djou is an Army reservist and he got a call for deployment to Afghanistan right […]
HECO’s New Price Rates Send Hawaii Electric Bills to Record Highs
HECO (Hawaiian Electric Company) has started collecting bills from its first month under their new rate package and price hikes. Needless to say, it only took one month for electric rates on Oahu to set record highs. At first glance the new rates don’t look like too much of a hike in original prices. However, […]
Hungry Ear Records Celebrates 31-Year Anniversary With Big Sale
It is so hard to survive these days as an independent music store, yet Hungry Ear Records continues to defy odds. Having lasted more than three decades, including this last decade when digital downloading of music overtook the music scene, Hungry Ear will celebrate its 31st anniversary with a thank you to its longtime customers […]
Tropical Storm Fernanda Likely to Become a Hurricane
Fernanda is only a tropical storm as of right now, but forecasters are predicting that it will reach hurricane status before it weakens and passes by Hawaii south of our island chain. Fernanda grew to tropical storm strength overnight about 1,500 miles east-southeast of Hawaii as the storm heads to the Central Pacific, National Hurricane […]
Honolulu Jazz Quartet’s 10th Anniversary Celebration and New CD Release
Hawaii’s premier jazz group, the Honolulu Jazz Quartet (HJQ), celebrated its 10th Anniversary on July 20, 2011 at Gordon Biersch at the Aloha Tower Marketplace in Honolulu. The festive event, which surrounded the group with friends, family and fans, was topped off with the release if its fourth CD entitled “Remembrance / Live at The […]