Dan Nakaso
Reporter at Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter who's back on island. Likes hot cars and cool guitars. Dog lover. House plant killer.
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3 days ago |
yahoo.com | Dan Nakaso
The year-old state Department of Law Enforcement would get new funding and an increased mandate to crack down on illegal fireworks under pending legislation, which has Pearl City resident Larry Veray hopeful the level of pyrotechnic explosions in isle neighborhoods will decline during holiday celebrations. Veray, 75, flew on reconnaissance missions over Vietnam as a Navy electronic warfare operator.
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4 days ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
The year-old state Department of Law Enforcement would get new funding and an increased mandate to crack down on illegal fireworks under pending legislation, which has Pearl City resident Larry Veray hopeful the level of pyrotechnic explosions in isle neighborhoods will decline during holiday celebrations. Veray, 75, flew on reconnaissance missions over Vietnam as a Navy electronic warfare operator.
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1 week ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
House Finance Chair Kyle Yamashita, who served as chair of the powerful House money committee for the last three legislative sessions, has been replaced by Majority Caucus Leader Chris Todd. Yamashita’s tenure as Finance chair got off to a rocky start three years ago during chaotic, end-of-session conference committee hearings to resolve differences between House and Senate versions of bills.
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1 week ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
Some 37% of Hawaii businesses said tariffs make them “very concerned,” while another 40% are “somewhat concerned,” adding up to a whopping 77% of businesses feeling tariff anxiety, according to a new survey by ProService Hawaii. And two-thirds of Hawaii businesses said they expect tariffs to effect them either “a lot” (33%) or moderately (33%), according to the survey of 286 island businesses. Only 8% of respondents expect President Donald Trump’s tariff war to have no impact on them.
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1 week ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
Former Honolulu City Council member John Henry Felix — who witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a boy, became an Eagle Scout at the age of 15, later held court at the Pacific Club over back-to-back breakfast meetings, was a proud descendant of his Portuguese ancestry and active in multiple business and philanthropic endeavours — died at his independent living facility in Hawaii Kai early Monday morning at the age of 94.
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Former Honolulu Police Department officer “Bobby” Minh-Hung Nguyen — the fourth and final co-conspirator in the Kealoha corruption case — was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison today followed by two years of supervised release today.
Former Honolulu Police Department Lt. Derek Wayne Hahn was sentenced to 42 months in prison followed by two years of spervised relase today in the Kealoha corruption case,
Kealoha will be free on bail until 2 pm April 12 because of COVID-19 concerns.