Proposed Solar Farm on Hawaii Island; The Witches of Edmonton; Next Steps after Bill Banning Sex trafficking Signed in to Law; Sour Kangaroo in Seussical the Musical
Proposed Solar Farm on Hawaii Island: Rep. Richard Creagan
For months, Hawaii Island residents in Ocean View have criticized a plan to develop a series of twenty-seven small solar farms in the residential area.. Some of the finger pointing concerns how the project was created by one large company to take advantage of the feed in tariff opportunity, meant for small companies. Other opponents are asking whether the project is really in the public interest. This month, the state’s consumer advocates agreed. What happens now to keep the project from happening is the focus of Representative Richard Creagan, who joins us this morning.
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Outro Music: Ballade Pour Adeline by Richard Clayderman
The Witches of Edmonton: Taurie Kinoshita
Humankind still struggles to explain natural phenomena, but it has come a long way since the early Seventeenth Century in Europe, when witches and devils were routinely blamed for whatever we could not understand. The play the Witch of Edmonton, written in 1621 and attributed to at least three different authors, tells the story of a woman who turns to witchcraft when she has nothing left to lose. TaurieKinoshita is the Director of the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival production of The Witch of Edmonton.
Intro Music: I'll Be There by The Intimate Orchestra
Outro Music: Witches by Sir Sly
Next Steps after Bill Banning Sex Trafficking Signed in to Law: Kathryn Xian
With his signature, Governor Ige made Hawaii the last state with a law banning sex trafficking. It is now considered a violent crime and a class a felony. As for the protections it provides to victims, included are criminal injury compensation and an expansion of the witness protection program. It took over a decade to get to this point...much of the push for the law came from advocate Kathryn Xian. But does the state have the capability to fulfill those protections? We asked Kathryn Xian for her list of next steps...Kathryn is the executive director of the Pacific Alliance to Stop Slavery and sits on the Federal Stop Observe Ask Respond task force (SOAR) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Intro Music: Body Show by Team Music
Outro Music: Rising Water by James Vincent McMorrow
Sour Kangaroo in Seussical the Musical: Maya Kikuchi
Dr. Seuss was the rare writer who can create an entire universe, populate it with outlandish characters of his own invention, and make it into the kind of place where we all want to live, at least for a while. Seussical the Musical brings together characters that have become part of the childhood imaginings of at least three generations; it’s the summer production of HEARTS, Hawaii Education of the Arts, and Maya Kikuchi is the Sour Kangaroo in Seussical the Musical, the Summer 2016 production of Hawai‘i Education of the ARTS or HEARTS.
Intro Music: Higher by The Naked and Famous
Outro Music: Seussical The Musical
