Bishop Museum - Honolulu on the Hawaiian island
The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, designated the Hawaiʻi State Museum of Natural and Cultural History, is a museum of history and science located in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawai'i and is home to the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiiana, the Bishop Museum has an extensive entomological collection of over 13.5 million specimens, the third largest collection in the United States.
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Places to see in ( Oahu - USA ) Downtown Honolulu
Places to see in ( Oahu - USA ) Downtown Honolulu
Downtown is Hawaii’s bustling political and business hub, known for its skyscrapers and the lavish Iolani Palace, a restored 19th-century royal residence with original furnishings. The Hawaii State Art Museum shows local contemporary art. On Honolulu Harbor, Aloha Tower Marketplace has sea views from the 1920s Aloha Tower, as well as a large waterfront stage, a concert pavilion and waterfront restaurants.
Downtown Honolulu is the current historic, economic, governmental, and central part of Honolulu—bounded by Nuʻuanu Stream to the west, Ward Avenue to the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Honolulu Harbor to the south—situated within the City of Honolulu. Both modern and historic buildings and complexes, many of the latter declared National Historic Landmarks on the National Register of Historic Places.
Downtown Honolulu can be subdivided into four neighborhoods, each with its own central focus and mix of buildings. These areas are the Capitol District, the Central Business District, Chinatown, and the Waterfront. The Capitol District, or Civic Center, contains most of the federal, state, and city governmental buildings and is centered on the Hawaiʻi State Capitol, ʻIolani Palace, and Honolulu Hale (city hall). It is roughly bounded by Richards Street on the west, Ward Avenue on the east, Vineyard Boulevard to the north, and Nimitz Highway to the south. Significant buildings in this area include:
Old Advertiser Building
Aliʻiōlani Hale
Bishop Estate Building
Frank F. Fasi Municipal Building
Hawaiʻi State Capitol
Hawaiʻi State Library
Honolulu Fire Headquarters
Honolulu Hale
Honolulu Police Station
ʻIolani Barracks
ʻIolani Palace
Kakaʻako Fire Station
Kalanimoku Building
Kamehameha V Post Office
Kawaiahaʻo Church
Kawaiahaʻo Plaza
King Kalakaua Building
Kapuaiwa Building
Leiopapa a Kamehameha Building
Mission Memorial Building
The Pacific Club
Prince Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Federal Building
Territorial Building
Washington Place
Centered on Bishop Street and Fort Street Mall, the central business district is roughly bounded by Nuʻuanu Avenue, Nimitz Highway, Richards Street, and Vineyard Boulevard. This area contains most of the headquarters buildings of Hawaiʻi-based companies and most of the skyscrapers. Buildings in this area include:
1100 Alakea Street
1132 Bishop Street
Alexander & Baldwin Building
Ali'i Place
American Savings Building
Arcade Building
Armstrong Building
Army and Navy YMCA
Bishop Bank Building
Bishop Square
Cades Schutte Building
Capitol Place
Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew
Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace
C. Brewer Building
Central Fire Station
Central Pacific Plaza (Central Pacific Bank)
Century Square
City Financial Tower
Davies Pacific Center
Dillingham Transportation Building
Executive Center
Financial Plaza of the Pacific (Bank of Hawaii)
First Hawaiian Center
Fort Street Mall
Harbor Court
Hawaiʻi Pacific University
Hawaiian Electric Building
Hawaiian Telcom Building
Judd Building
Central Middle School (Honolulu, Hawaii)
McCandless Building
Melchers Building
Oʻahu Railway and Land Terminal
Oceanit Center
Pacific Guardian Center
Pinnacle Honolulu
Pioneer Plaza
Royal Brewery
Stangenwald Building
Theo H. Davies Building
TOPA Financial Tower
Yokohama Specie Bank
YWCA Building
( Oahu - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Oahu. Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Oahu - USA
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Honolulu Police Department's Hall of Fame - Major Douglas Granville King
Major King served with the Honolulu Police Department from 1941 to 1945 and was inducted into the HPD Hall of Fame on May 19, 2016.
During the 1930's, Japanese military aggression had spread in the Pacific and was heading toward Honolulu. In response, Major Douglas Granville King, a Honolulu resident who retired from the British military, met with Chief William Gabrielson to propose forming a contingent of civilian volunteer officers to augment the Honolulu Police Department. In June of 1941, the Honolulu Police Commission approved the formation of the Emergency Reserve Officers and Major King became the program's first commander.
On July 28, 1941, the program was officially activated and 124 Emergency Reserve Officers were commissioned with full police authority on November 23, 1941. Immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Emergency Reserve Officers were called into service and remained on duty for the next 24 hours. They patrolled eight to ten hours per day for the next 16 days.
Major King was then appointed to Assistant Chief of the Emergency Reserve Officers. He dedicated all of his efforts to training and supervising these officers. Ultimately, he sacrificed his life for his officers, the department, and the community.
The 398 volunteer Emergency Reserve Officers were deactivated on October 13, 1945. However, based on its success, the program was reactivated one month later to form what is now known as the Honolulu Police Department's Reserve Officer Program.
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Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii
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A look back: Honolulu police officers ambushed, killed in the line of duty
Several Honolulu police officers have been killed in the line of duty after being ambushed.
Honolulu's Rail Project Facing Another Challenge
A senior appeals court judge from California has been assigned to take over the massive lawsuit challenging the Honolulu rail system.
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MANY REASONS TO REJECT RAIL
-The very idea that the state would sacrifice the most important amenity it has to offer the world, the beauty of its environment, is beyond belief. Bette Midler
-This train would be the largest financial burden and the biggest waste of money in the history of Hawaii
-Rail is a political scandal -- a project created for special interests, bankers and developers
TRAFFIC:
-city and Feds admit congestion will be much worse with rail than now
-current peak overload on H-1 is 1,000 vehicles per hour, will increase 700% to 7,000 with rail in 2030
-less expensive alternatives would be far more effective and could be implemented within a few years, benefitting all
-Leeward commuters need more express buses now rather than wait 20 years
ENVIRONMENT:
-visual blight: 20-mile, huge elevated concrete monster
-energy use: less efficient than future cars
-archaeological sites disturbed: major cultural issue
-historic sites harmed: not properly studied
COSTS:
-escalating from $2.7B in 2006; $3.8B 2009; $4.6B 2010; $5.3B 2012; (+40% avg overrun)...$7B in 2015?
-most expensive per capita, by far, in US history, $6,000 each person
-financial plan inadequate: already exceeding bond limits, FTA warnings
-Federal funds not guaranteed
-depletes transportation budget, preventing real solutions
-mandatory infrastructure requirements: $5B sewers, $5B water, $2B roads
-other city & state financial burdens: union salaries, $8B unfunded pensions & $14B unfunded medical
-Sen. Inouye warned that a mere $1B EPA mandate to fix sewers would bankrupt city
-annual subsidies: $70M if ridership is 116,000; fewer riders are more likely, requiring $100M subsidy
-future tax hikes would be needed; sewer fees could hit $400 monthly in a decade
-$5Billion would be enough to rebuild every school and still have billions left over for sewers, water & traffic
-Hawaii already burdened with nation's second-highest cost of living
RIDERSHIP:
-transit use would only increase from current 6% to 8% benefitting 2% using half our transportation budget
-grossly inflated claims of 116,000 daily = 100% increase -- has never happened anywhere
-national experience: ridership low and decreasing; projections usually wrong
-existing residential pattern: low density; very few (2% at most) will walk to rail
-bus to rail transfers: necessary, but will discourage riders
-city claims 60% will transfer by bus, four times higher rate than national average
-work pattern: downtown only 10% of jobs, others scattered
-parking provided at only 3 of 21 stations, 5,000 spaces for 116,000 daily rides
-first rail segment starts in vacant fields, presently successful farms: no riders, requiring 100% subsidy
-full route not open for 20 or 30 years
-ride discomfort: 80% standing, 41-minute ride, fewest seats in country
-slow speed: 27 mph; plus time wasted in transfers; stops every mile
LAND USE:
-Transit Oriented Development never happens, e.g. Portland, still waiting for development 25 years later
-resulting low-density Leeward developments will further increase congestion, destroy important farmlands
-better planning: build up city-center population
JOBS:
-foreign payments will export employment, net loss
-rail-tech requires importing specialized workers
-alternatives would create quality local work, building useful products
-traffic relief, not job-creation, should be main justification
OPERATION:
-safety: no drivers, no police, security not in budget
-breakdowns: a million moving parts, frequent failure likely
-honor system for fare collection unreliable
-old-fashioned, obsolete technology
-rigid alignment, cannot be modified for changing conditions
ALTERNATIVES:
-express buses and managed lanes not properly considered, producing distorted conclusions
-bus lane has four times more passenger capacity than rail, at higher speed with seated passengers
-our bus system and ridership levels lead the nation: we should build on that
-immediate improvements possible but ignored: enhanced roads, buses, signals
-changing social conditions: telecommuting; ride-sharing; growing information technology
-future cars: electric, computer-guided, self-driving, better use of lanes
POLITICS:
-misinformation: constant distortions of reality; misleading ads by government paid for with tax money
-city irresponsible to proceed now, issuing $300M in contracts in face of lawsuits and election
-if rail is not approved, new construction will have to be torn down
-biased studies: same planner, Parsons, recommended Bus Rapid Transit and dismissed rail in 2003
-polls show public now opposed
-2008 election rigged by big $$ on misleading ads, Hannemann landslide loss in 2010
New website aims to help make Chinatown safer
In September, the Honolulu Police Department told KHON2 that it partnered with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency in an effort to crack down on crime in Chinatown.
Mana Wahine - HPD Police Chief Susan Ballard
It's exciting... moving forward, humbled by the support
I took the test and they called like 2 or 3 times and I, you know, wasn't interested. And then I think it was the third time and I remember her name was Edna Jones and she said Susan if you don't take the position this time you'll have to start all over again but I had a bad supervisor where I was working I said ahh what the heck just sign me up.
She joined HPD in 1985… and worked her way up the ranks. She served as commander for HPD's receiving division, was in charge of training the Kaneohe and Kalihi districts and HPD's Finance Division, and was promoted to major in 2001.
And in 2017… she made history as Hawaii's first female police chief… beating out 32 other candidates.
To me even until this day it's very humbling. I mean you know the fact that you know I come into this job and you know I come into the building every day and when I park my car and I get out of the car and I walk upstairs and I see, you know, walk into the office and see chief of police I guess it still really hasn't even hit me.
Chief Ballard's an early riser... she starts her day at midnight! Beginning with a morning workout and walking her dogs before heading into the station.
Pretty much every day there's something planned, but I mean in between you just never know what's gonna happen. You get phone calls whether an officer involved shooting or things especially now with the budget hearings you know things for the budget, the legislature, you know a lot of last minute things you know people call and it's like okay you know we need you to do this, how are you guys planning on doing this you know so we're constantly moving pretty much all day long.
She says it's the community support that motivates her to keep going.
These are people they range in age from young people all the way to the older generation and, once again, it's just so humbling I mean I can be on the weekends at Longs shopping with my puka t-shirt and my shorts on and people stop just to talk and I try and make time for them and it just makes me feel good. The fact that they are just so supportive of what we're doing.
Lacy Deniz, HNN.
What’s it Going to Take? – Does Hawaiʻi Have the Will and the Resiliency to Build a Better Future?
PBS Hawaiʻi continues to ask What’s It Going to Take?, in an ongoing series of live televised forums seeking to galvanize decision-makers, communities and all of us to make life in Hawaiʻi better. Does Hawaiʻi Have the Will and the Resiliency to Build a Better Future? That’s the subject of our next special edition of INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAIʻI. The numbers are daunting, even scary. Nearly 50% of Hawaiʻi residents barely get by; 62% of all jobs in in the state pay less than $20 per hour; and the crisis in affordable housing drives many people to leave Hawaiʻi for the Continent. But others stay, and some return, drawn by family, culture and the aloha spirit.
Group files motion to block Hoopili development in West Oahu
Kioni Dudley, president of The Friends of Makakilo, said it took six months to compile evidence, articles and other information for the 71-page motion.
INSIGHTS ON PBS HAWAII: Honolulu City Prosecutor / State Senate District 13
Two attorneys are vying to represent the people of O‘ahu in criminal prosecutions. In this nonpartisan race, incumbent Honolulu City Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro faces challenger Anosh Yaqoob, who says he’s proud that he’s not an “insider” and doesn’t want to see another incumbent run unopposed.
Meanwhile, Honolulu Democrat Rep. Karl Rhoads is seeking to move up to the State Senate seat that’s being vacated by longtime Sen. Suzanne Chun-Oakland. He is scheduled to appear with Libertarian candidate Harry Ozols, a retired pilot. Democrat-turned-Republican Rod Tam, a former state lawmaker and City Councilmember who pleaded guilty to spending improprieties, is also in the running. He declined to take part in this forum. Senate District 13 includes part of Downtown Honolulu, Nu‘uanu and Liliha.
Honolulu PD Kill unarmed Man after Promising not to Trick him, then Tricking him 10/7/18
The video also shows that police could probably have avoided killing him if they just had a little more patience because he had nothing in his hands during the negotiations. The Honolulu Civil Beat claims that both videos were edited by police before being released to the media on 10/7/18.
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Honolulu Police Commission Chair weighs in on bodycam footage of the aftermath of deadly crash
Honolulu Police Commission Chair weighs in on bodycam footage of the aftermath of deadly crash
Teen Caught Destroying Sand Sculpture at Iconic Hawaii Hotel
Police say a teen girl was caught on camera defacing a sand sculpture in a luxury Hawaiian resort Monday night. Surveillance video at the iconic Royal Hawaiian hotel shows a girl climb over a barrier in front of the sculpture and knock off the head of one of the carved bodies. She then rips the nose off of another and claws at the sculpture. After climbing down from the barrier, she throws a green pillow and another object at the sculpture.
Kaneshiro's attorney questions validity of impeachment petition
There are additional hurdles in the effort to oust Honolulu's prosecutor from office.
11 Safest Places to Live in the US
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11 Safest Places to Live in the US.
Safety first. It may be a cliché expression, but it’s tried and true advice that carries a lot of weight. Especially when deciding where to put down roots. When it comes to your home and family, there is no substitute for feeling safe. But where to begin? There are so many cities and towns in the U.S., it’s difficult to choose a place that is both safe and desirable. Don’t fret; there are plenty of viable options from the east coast, to the mid-west, and especially the west coast (California scored three separate times on our list!). Check out all the cities that made the ranking for the safest places to live in the U.S.
1. Sunnyvale, California
2. Plano, Texas
3. Honolulu, Hawaii
4. Naperville, Illinois
5. Thousand Oaks, California
6. Henderson, Nevada
7. Shoreview, Minnesota
8. McAllen, Texas
9. Arlington County, Virginia
10. Franklin, Massachusetts
11. Carlsbad, California
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LONG STORY SHORT WITH LESLIE WILCOX: Glenn Medeiros | PBS Hawaiʻi
Original Air Date: Tues., July 12, 2016
Glenn Medeiros’ humble childhood on Kauai did not prepare him for the international fame he would achieve after winning a Hawaii-based singing competition as a teen.
After years in the music industry, Medeiros grew disenchanted with the life of a pop sensation and turned his attention toward Hawaii’s education system, leading him to his current position as President of Saint Louis School in Honolulu.
Behind the Headlines - January 4, 2019
Chalkbeat Tennessee's Laura Faith Kebede, The Commerical Appeal’s Ryan Poe and The Memphis Flyer’s Toby Sells join The Daily Memphian's Bill Dries, and host Eric Barnes for a journalist roundtable to discuss the biggest stories of 2018, including midterm elections, police surveillance, and the search for a new Shelby County Superintendent.