Maddie Bender

2 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |DW Gibson |Maddie Bender

HPR's Bill Dorman reports that U.S. House lawmakers have voted to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting | Read the update from HPR's CEO Meredith ArtleyAdvocate Austin Haleyalpiy with COFA CAN discusses concerns in the COFA community about immigration raidsHPR's Ashley Mizuo reports on which measures Gov.

2 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Maddie Bender

What does a land redistribution plan from the 1840s have to do with land rights today? Historians point to the Great Māhele as one of the most important episodes of Hawaiian history. Under King Kamehameha III, the policy privatized land. Two years later, a law was enacted to grant land ownership to commoners — these parcels are known as “kuleana lands."Hiʻilei Hobart has been living in the diaspora since 1999.

2 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |Maddie Bender |DW Gibson

HPR's Bill Dorman breaks down the brewing fight over public media funding | Read the update from HPR's CEO Meredith Artley Honolulu Civil Beat's Stewart Yerton reports on how māmaki tea producers turned the tide on a bill meant to regulate their nascent industry | Full Story Hi’ilei Hobart, assistant professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University, digs into her family history after inheriting kuleana lands in Pauoa Valley | Read Hobart's article Violinist Markus Mars composes...

4 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Maddie Bender

Kine Musubi is being billed as New York’s first Hawaiʻi-style musubi store. It's the brainchild of Chi Ian Chan, who grew up in Honolulu’s Chinatown. “I've eaten so much musubi. And my mom would make my brother and I musubis for field trips as early as elementary school. But I couldn't tell you the first time, because I've had so many of them, and like all other kids that grew up in Hawaiʻi, this is a daily part of life," he said. After moving to New York, Chan longed for nostalgic flavors.

4 weeks ago | hawaiipublicradio.org | Catherine Cruz |Maddie Bender

Byron Goo, CEO of Tea Chest Hawaiʻi, talks about how tariffs are affecting the tea tradeJennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate in chemistry, discusses developments in gene editing with CRISPRHPR’s Ashley Mizuo reports on attendance record of lawmakers in the last legislative session | Full Story Chi Ian Chan, owner of Kine Musubi, shares plans to open up the first musubi store in New York City The Conversation ScienceEconomy