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We’re a year out from the start of the Covid pandemic and the travel restrictions put in place to limit its spread. Checking in with business leaders across the tourism sector, including the Hawaii Tourism Authority, PBN finds an industry with growing optimism about a recovery, while still struggling to endure the reality that the recovery has barely begun.
The state of Hawaii’s Safe Travels program has so far made the biggest difference, allowing visitors to skip the mandatory quarantine if they have a negative Covid test result. That went into place Oct. 15. Arrivals grew from fewer than 19-thousand statewide in September to nearly 236,000 in December. But that is still down 80% from pre-Covid levels.
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Hawaii Proud Boy founder arrested after Capitol riot appears in court
Nich Ochs is the founder of the Oahu chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right political organization that has been labeled an extremist hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Social media posts and a CNN interview placed Ochs at the U.S. Capitol during last week s armed riot, which NPR is describing as a pro-Trump insurrection. He was arrested last week and spent the weekend at the Federal Detention Center on Oahu. HPR Reporter Ryan Finnerty provides an update from Ochs s trial today, and we replay a 2018 profile of the controversial figure.