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A New Day for Maui Memorial Medical Center

July 1 will usher in a new day in healthcare for our Maui community. Maui Memorial Medical Center will be transitioning from State management to a new nonprofit organization—Maui Health System, a subsidiary of Kaiser Permanente. Our hospital will continue...

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Hawai‘i Medical Aid in Dying Bill Deferred

…bill implicates profoundly private issues and calls on Hawai‘i residents to reflect on their personal views and beliefs about life and faith and suffering. Every year, a Roosevelt High School Participation in Democracy class emails various legislators commenting on bills...

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It’s Fiesta Time…

Filipinos are a religious bunch. After the Easter celebration in the spring, Filipinos gather in their hometown for their town fiesta–usually on the feast of the town’s patron saint. Folks from the city or ili, return back to their barrio...

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Kalooban: The Filipino in Spirit and in Religion

With the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, which this year is on March 1, and then the celebration of the Solemnity of Easter on April 16, religion will play a large role this month and...

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Mario Ramil: A Justice for the People

Celebrating the Life of Associate Justice Mario Ramil, June 21, 1946–January 30, 2017 Humble. Extraordinary. Brilliant. Mentor. A great friend. A true public servant. Just some of the words that friends, government officials, and those in the legal community used...

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Pau Hana

In plantation lingo, the end of the work day. But for the 675 employees of Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S), Alexander & Baldwin’s announcement on January 6, 2016 that it was shutting down its Pu‘unënë mill and farm operations...

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