Rainbow disconnect: With Trapasso’s exit at UH, Big Isle baseball loses backer
Mike Trapasso and Kaha Wong had a productive symbiotic relationship, one that changed the direction of UH-Manoa’s baseball program and opened the door for Big Island kids to play Division I ball.
Kolten Wong posts third career multihomer game in Brewers’ loss
MILWAUKEE — A game of home run derby broke out bewteen the Tigers and Brewers, and Kolten Wong wasn’t taking a backseat to anyone.
US debates fairest way to share spare vaccines
WASHINGTON — In April, the Biden administration announced plans to share millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses with the world by the end of June. Five weeks later, nations around the globe are still waiting — with growing impatience — to learn where the vaccines will go and how they will be distributed.
Nation ‘built on an idea’ honors generations killed in service
A nation slowly emerging from social distancing measures imposed by the coronavirus pandemic honored generations of U.S. veterans killed in the line of duty on a Memorial Day observed without the severe pandemic restrictions that affected the day of tribute just a year ago.
UH-Hilo: International student population dips, will rebound
The number of international students enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Hilo dipped slightly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but school officials predict a return to pre-pandemic levels in the upcoming fall semester.
Hilo commemorates Memorial Day in person
Memorial Day ceremonies were held this holiday weekend — both in person and virtually — in East Hawaii.
Biden’s workforce push eclipses women’s personal career and family choices
As a working woman and a mother with six young children, I’m concerned that President Joe Biden is focusing too much on getting women into the workforce, and too little on supporting women’s personal pursuits.
We need our moment of triumphant liberation from the traumas of COVID-19
On August 25, 1944, the Allied Forces rolled into Paris and the Nazi occupation of France was over. “When the last enemy resistance crumbled at the gate to Paris,” the Associated Press reported on that day, “then this heart of France went mad — wildly, violently mad with happiness.”
