#US Senator Daniel Inouye

The 509-foot ship is the Navy’s 68th Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, and it carries the “Go for Broke” motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in which Senator Inouye served.

The school is situated at Schofield Barracks, which was the home of the 442nd regimental combat team, the unit that Senator Inouye served in during WWII.

The US Army Pacific honored US Senator Daniel K. Inouye posthumously with the command’s highest civilian award.

US Senator Daniel Inouye was treated and released from the hospital after sustaining a minor cut to the back of his head in a fall this morning, officials said.

Sen. Inouye is the 7th American recipient of the award, and the first foreigner of Japanese descent to receive the honor.

By Wendy Osher The County of Maui dedicated two new high capacity buses today bringing the Maui fleet to 35.  County Transportation Director Don Medeiros said the new additions will help to meet an increased demand in rider-ship. Click here to listen to Wendy Osher’s interview with County Transportation Director Don Medeiros as Maui welcomes […]

By Wendy Osher The Maui High Performance Computing Center dedicated a new Supercomputer today that doubles the center’s computing power.  The Dell platform system has 103 TeraFLOPs (103 trillion Floating operations per second),  That’s 13 thousand times the computational capability of the original 8-giga FLOP (8 billion Floating Point Operations per second) system that was […]

Governor Linda Lingle is among the people set to testify on Monday on the progress of Hawaii’s spending of federal stimulus funds. More than $1 billion was appropriated for Hawaii in February through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations is being held to gauge the progress […]

U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka offered testimony today in support of the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka Bill. In his address Akaka called the status of Native Hawaiians unique saying, “Even after the Native Hawaiian government was illegally overthrown, the Native Hawaiian people never gave up their expression of political status […]

Governor Linda Lingle and U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye exchanged barbs over a notice issued by the governor yesterday, calling for a possible reduction of 1100 jobs. Inouye called the situation unfortunate and voiced his support for the program proposed by labor unions saying it saves money and assures the continuance of state services.  Governor Lingle […]