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How One Local Food Program Is Helping Hawaii s Farmers And Families - Honolulu Civil Beat
DA BUX offers a model worth replicating and expanding.
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Jesse Cooke is vice president of investments and analytics at Ulupono Initiative.
When Dawn Marquez goes grocery shopping at Shima’s Supermarket in Waimanalo, her children aren’t just in tow they’re leading the charge toward their favorites. Her 7-year-old son Laakea makes a beeline for the cucumbers and her 6-year-old daughter Lilinoe heads for the apple bananas.
Dawn attributes their choices to a program called DA BUX, which doubles the value of government food assistance when that assistance is used to buy qualifying local food items, like the cucumbers and apple bananas her children now seek out.
The 2020 Sour Poi Awards Present: The Day That Never Ends
Tales of weird, wacky and wild news you may have missed. The best of the worst of 2020.
January 29, 2021
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onsider 2020. Someday we may look back on the year as a long, strange trip that ultimately brought us something positive. But not yet! It’s too soon to come to terms with a year that feels like a mix of Groundhog Day and a vintage horror movie we would call The Day That Never Ends. First came hoarding of rice, Spam, toilet paper, then shortages of yeast, hand weights, potting soil, even kiddie pools. Our lives reeled with pandemic lockdowns, distance learning and an ever-shifting new normal, bookended by doom-scrolling on phones and endless Zoom meetings. So, in keeping with the off-kilter nature of a calendar year we’re happy to close, we present the latest edition of HONOLULU Magazine’s Sour Poi Awards. Here, we focus on news that’s sure to make us roll our eyes. Yes, we obsessed over COVID-19, but governmen
Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: January 27–February 2, 2021
Catch two virtual film fests, a new exhibit inspired by Shangri La, and the Punahou Carnival like you’ve never experienced it before.
January 27, 2021
January 28 through February 3
Virtual film fests continue in 2021 with a special perk for Hawai‘i viewers, thanks to Honolulu Museum of Art’s Doris Duke Theatre being selected as a satellite screen for the Sundance Film Festival. Dozens of films will be presented online starting this Thursday (
check out the program here); many are already sold out so you might want to work backward from the ticket page, see what’s available and then read descriptions before getting your heart set on something you won’t be able to watch. Go to
An anti-tourist experience : Hawaii travel group tours island s ugly realities
Zeb Larson
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Iolani Palace, the royal residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii, photographed on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Honolulu, Hawaii.Sean Marrs/Special to SFGATE
Hawaii looms large in the imagination of the U.S. mainland as a tourist paradise: beautiful beaches and volcanoes, delicious food, and the spirit of “aloha,” a spirit of welcoming. But aloha is a complicated concept, and for some, the tourist industry sells the idea of Hawaii as uncomplicated and without any problems.
Hawaii’s natural beauty conceals some ugly realities. The islands’ economy is dominated by tourism and the military there are 143 bases or facilities and 41,000 active-duty personnel. The military controls 21% of the island of Oahu, and there are 115 different sites on the islands identified as having been poisoned by decades of ordnance testing and military activity. Meanwhile, Indige