Council bill could ease housing shortage
The Hawaii County Council is on the cusp of advancing a bill that would let everyday folks play a major role in reducing the island’s housing shortage.
Letters — Your voice — fo September 4
Trump and the right-wing media
US safety commissioners call for investigation into Shein, Temu
Two leaders of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission are calling for the agency to investigate e-commerce retailers Shein and Temu after “deadly baby and toddler products” were sold on both websites, according to a letter posted on the U.S. CPSC website on Tuesday.
Police seek leads on wanted man
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a 31-year-old Papaikou man they say should be considered armed and dangerous.
Pedestrian killed in June crash identified
A female pedestrian who died after being hit by a car in Keaau in June has been identified as 20-year-old Densiann Denno of Hilo.
Harris courts union vote with Biden at her side
PITTSBURGH — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday that U.S. Steel should remain in domestic hands, making a pitch alongside President Joe Biden to working-class voters in Pennsylvania who are also being courted by her rival.
U.S. Transportation Department holds fate of Alaska-Hawaiian merger
Starlink emerges as fresh battleground between Musk, Brazil
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Tensions between Brazil and Elon Musk’s business empire ratcheted up further as the country’s telecoms regulator threatened to sanction his satellite broadband company Starlink hours after its top court stood behind a controversial decision to ban social network X from the country.
Controversial Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’ lands US release date before Election Day
Here is one October surprise you can put on your calendar now: The Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice,” which set tongues wagging when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has secured theatrical distribution by Briarcliff Entertainment and will hit theaters on Oct. 11, less than a month before the presidential election.
4 easy dinners for a new school year
PITTSBURGH — No one likes to say goodbye to summer, but there’s no denying a new school year can be pretty exciting.
Pop quiz: Students can ace any kitchen test with ‘3 Ingredient College Cookbook’
PITTSBURGH — Cooking every day is not easy. It’s even harder when you have to juggle school, work, extracurriculars or a full-time job with it.
Let’s Talk Food: Japanese Curry revisited
I have written about Japanese curry before and had a recipe for homemade curry sauce in a past column. Cook’s Illustrated created a blend of spices with miso as an ingredient in their curry bricks. Miso adds the umami flavor the curry brick. These refrigerated bricks can be frozen for up to three months.
Nation and world news in brief for September 3
Trump says he had ‘every right’ to interfere in 2020 election
4 killed in shooting on CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park
CHICAGO — Four people were killed in a Monday morning shooting on a CTA Blue Line train in Forest Park, the west suburban village’s police said.
Battered and unloved, Germany’s coalition likely to hang on after regional losses to far right
BERLIN — The far right’s first victory in a German state election in the post-war era prompted soul-searching in Berlin on Monday, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s battered and unloved coalition looked as if it would hold together.
US seizes Venezuelan president’s plane in Dominican Republic
WASHINGTON — The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after determining that its purchase violated U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday.
NFC East: 2024 outlook, preview, predictions
2024 predicted order of finish, record
At least 6 teenage football players died in August, raising questions about heat and safety
As the heat index rose into the mid-90s Aug. 5, the air-conditioning failed at Hopewell High School in Virginia, and classes would be canceled the following day. Football practice went on nonetheless, and about 40 minutes in, a 15-year-old player collapsed.
A century ago, Soldier Field was born as a lakefront stadium, bolstering Chicago’s image as a world-class city
CHICAGO — The birth of Chicago’s lakefront stadium was marked by a nasty squabble over its name. During construction it was prosaically dubbed the “Grant Park Stadium.” The problem arose when it was decided that it ought to commemorate the GIs who served in World War I.
Fight against families: States get federal judge to endanger mixed-status couples
Texas Federal Judge J. Campbell Barker, appointed by Donald Trump in 2019, has frozen a Biden administration policy that could have helped some half-million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens get legal status. Hopefully, Barker’s stay will not be staying.
