Kauai Flooding Recovery; Blue Line Project; Debt Free College; Poetry Out Loud
Recovery Continues on Garden Isle
We are heading into the second week of recovery for those families and businesses hit hard by flash floods here on Oahu and on Kauai. It may still be two weeks before the roadways cutting off communities are reopened.
Intro Music: Spinning Wheel by Capiozzo & Mecco
Outro Music: Haupe by Italian Secret Service
Debt Free College
$1.4 trillion. That is how much Americans nationwide owe in student loan debt. All of that debt has some policymakers worried, including Hawaii’s Senator Brian Schatz. He sponsored the Debt Free College Act of 2018 – with the goal of making public higher education affordable without the need for student loans.
Outro Music: What You Know by Two Door Cinema Club
Blue Line Project
Across the weekend, scores of people took part in activities marking Earth Day. We caught up with students from St. Andrew’s Priory as they took part in the Blue Line Project Saturday. The Idea was to use blue chalk to mark the new flood inundation zones across the state.
Intro Music: El Manisero (Calypso Son) by Wilson & His Combo
Outro Music: Emmylou by First Aid Kit
Hawaii’s Energy Future
Hawaii’s clean energy future, including the commitment the state has made to have 100-percent of electricity needs met with renewable sources by the year 2045, was the focus of the Earth Day Energy Summit.
Outro Music: Sad Song by Au Revoir Simone
Poetry Out Loud
Tomorrow Punahou Senior Nicolas Amador will take the stage in the National Poetry Out Loud competition in our nation’s capital. It’s funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and is taking place at Washington University over the next few days.
Intro Music: Man on Fire by Edward Shard and The Magnetic Zeros
Outro Music: Running Back to You by The Juan Maclean
