Most of the time, tropical storms affecting the Hawaiian Islands are just annoying—tree branches down, brief power failures, and a lot of rain. But sometimes, those tropical storms grow into...
In her day, the Falls of Clyde was a four-masted, fully-rigged workhorse. She was built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, so she’s almost 140 years old. That alone makes...
Politics at the local level produces some remarkable characters and I think probably Hawaii has at least our fair share. For instance, there was Frank Loo, who served on the...
Back in the early 1960s when I first arrived in Hawaii, Honolulu International Airport (it was John Rogers Field back then) had six—Count ‘em: six!—parking spots for the huge,...