Will organizers make the right decision? Organizations across the country moved swiftly to suspend all operations due to the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 that's now classified as a "pandemic." Many of these decisions was made before…

Due to the constantly changing weather. The effects from the 2019 El Niño event that ended approximately 7 months ago continues to affect Hawaii's weather. While most locations is simply warmer than normal, the east side of the Big Island has been…

A step backwards. Hawaii Tax Online no longer provides an estimated deposit date for individual tax refunds. When I checked my refund status, this is the message I received: Refund Status Your tax refund was approved. It was mailed to you or sent to your bank…

This is one of the weakest Democratic presidential candidate lists of all-time. The Democratic Party of Hawaii has revealed the following twelve presidential candidates met Wednesday’s deadline to be on the Democratic primary ballot in Hawaii: Michael Bennet.…

I can't believe I'm reporting this in 2020. The Solid Waste Advisory Committee held a public meeting in Hilo, Hawaii on Tuesday in an effort to improve waste management on the Big Island. Most testifiers pretty much begged for decent recycling programs which…

This is why I don't like long weekends. This past three-day weekend was crazy. One of the worst households in my neighborhood partied past midnight daily They was high on drugs and drank an absurd amount of alcohol. Although they were loud, they weren't…

13-days worth of growth was destroyed. I had started marjoram seeds indoors on December 2 and everything was going well... until a colony of ants completely destroyed my plants. If I didn't catch one of the culprits carrying a cotyledon leaf, I would have…

Rather late than never. The rainy season has started a couple weeks later this year for the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii due to the aftermath of El Niño. Normally, that location experiences 15.50 inches of rain for the month (an average of 0.52 of an…

Here we go again. I went to a sale last week Saturday where they offered a box of books, discs, vinyl records, etc. for $5; as usual, greedy customers ruined the sale for everyone because they tossed every disc into their boxes. Two of those dingbats stated…

There's a catch. Couch Potato the Pacific golden plover must be extremely stressed this year, because it has been chasing away intruder plovers of its kind for weeks. On October 24, it simultaneously chased away two plovers; and soon after, it needed to deal…