#Tom Brower

The House Tourism committee holds a public hearing today on a bill that would allow a 20-year license for a stand-alone casino in Waikiki.

The Hawaii State legislature will honor Maui’s William Roback, Jr. today, Tuesday, March 09, 2010, for his recent selection as Alii Nui for the Royal Order of Kamehameha I.  Roback was elected by members of the royal society to serve a three-year term as head, or Alii Nui of the organization. The back-to-back floor presentations […]

A house committee is considering a resolution that would give President Barack Obama’s former Punahou apartment designation as a national historic place. Obama lived in the Punahou Circle apartment with his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, while attending the nearby Punahou School from 1971 to 1979. Dunham rented the 10th floor unit for 41 years before she […]