Honolulu Star - Bulletin back issues from January 2007:
Looming tax hikes fill stores, fuel tanks
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Consumers rush to beat excise and gas tax increases todayface=-Bold; It may be pennies on the dollar, but they sure add up fast, and that's why many Oahu consumers were buying gasoline and even computer gear before the knell of midnight yesterday. The reasons: the ...
Mayor says 2007 is when transit gets rolling
Jan 01, 2007; ... A toy monorail train circles a track under the Christmas tree in the reception area of Mayor Mufi Hannemann's office. "Mufi Express," the sign on the display reads. "Full size coming in 2012." And 2007 could be a pivotal year in keeping this timetable on ...
Images of 2006
Jan 01, 2007 ... Every year, the Star-Bulletin's photographers ring in the new with a look back on the images that defined the year for them.Open this section so you can see front and back pages at once -- you'll find a varied collection of news photography and artistic compositions, as well as a picture or two ...
40 officers to beef up DLNR enforcement
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Gov. Lingle proposes boosting the agency's budget by $9 million, half of it to add staffface=-Bold; The state would gain 40 new conservation officers to enforce rules protecting Hawaii's natural and cultural resources under Gov. Linda Lingle's 2007-8 budget ...
Judge rules state owns canyon cabins
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; In some cases, the Kauai retreats have belonged to families for 100 years or moreface=-Bold; LIHUE » About 100 leaseholders in rustic cabins on state land near Waimea Canyon received a tough blow when Kauai Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe ruled recently that their cabins, ...
Kalapana can finally rebuild
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Native Hawaiians get long-delayed funds to fix homes after an eruption 16 years ago face=-Bold; KAIMU, Hawaii » Finally, 48 native Hawaiian families will be able to start rebuilding their Big Island homes that were buried by molten lava 16 years ago. The victims of ...
Maui firm brings weddings to the world via Internet video
Jan 01, 2007; ... WAILUKU » The bride's sister was a soldier in Iraq and couldn't be in the reception line. But she was able to view the ceremony by going online thanks to the Web, one of the latest additions to marriage ceremonies. In Las Vegas and Maui, two popular wedding locations in the ...
OIA RED EAST - 'K' teams in hunt
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Castle Knights face=-Bold; face=+Bold; Coach:face=-Bold; Rocky Fraticelli, 18th year. face=+Bold; On paper: face=-Bold; The Knights were 5-4 in nonconference play, including 3-1 in the Lopes Classic, where they pulled a stunning upset of Kamehameha-Hawaii. In ...
OIA RED WEST - Rams head list of contenders
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Aiea Na Alii face=-Bold; face=+Bold; Coach: face=-Bold; Amosa Amosa face=+Bold; On paper:face=-Bold; Na Alii aren't big, but they are certainly quick. Josh Chung has been a deadly 3-point shooter, and they feature a lineup of five guards. They went 8-3 in ...
OIA WHITE - Kaiser a heavy favorite
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Farrington Governors face=-Bold; face=+Bold; Coach: face=-Bold; Allan Silva face=+Bold; On paper: face=-Bold; Charles Rocha, Jarett Gabriel, Cody Hua, Christian Fernandez and leading scorer Rey Bartian have given the Govs a multitude of weapons. The Govs have ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Iolani still has at least 1 coach's respect
Jan 01, 2007; ... The lone dissenter in today's Star-Bulletin Boys Basketball Top 10 explained his reasoning. "I know Punahou has had a better preseason, but until they beat the champs, I still have to put Iolani at No. 1," University High coach Walt Quitan said. The other 16 voters gave their top ...
2007 - What to look for in the year ahead
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Warriors should find out soon what kind of year lies aheadface=-Bold; There are big pukas and even bigger question marks for the football Warriors. Hawaii still has four open dates to fill for the upcoming season and the clock is ticking ... loudly. There ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR - What to look for in the year ahead
Jan 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Airline drama to play out with fares and lawyersface=-Bold; Hawaii's airfare war, fueled by new interisland carrier go! in 2006, could explode in 2007 with more battles expected in both the marketing arena and in the courtroom. face=+Bold; Mesa Air Group ...
OUR OPINION - A new year of peace and promise
Jan 01, 2007 ... The Star-Bulletin asked readers to send us their thoughts, ideas and hopes for 2007. Longtime readers and students of all ages responded by e-mail, fax and post. The predominant theme was a hope for peace -- in faraway lands and right here on our busy streets. More New Year's letters will appear ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR - Isle politicians in conciliatory mood
Jan 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; HAPPY NEW YEARface=-Bold; face=+Bold; FROM PARIS ...face=-Bold; face=+Bold; TO TIMES SQUARE ...face=-Bold; face=+Bold; TO HONOLULU ...face=-Bold; face=+Bold; With the elections over, officials expect the Legislature and the governor to build on ...
HAPPY NEW YEAR - What to look for in the year ahead
Jan 01, 2007; ... News, by definition, is something a reporter didn't know yesterday and feels obliged to share today. But what about tomorrow? We can't jump into Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine and see the future. Besides, if we could, we'd be playing the point spread on Oregon State games. But there are ...
FIRST BABIES OF 2007 - BABY, BABY, BABY!
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; It's a three-way tie for first child of 2007 as a trio of moms gives birth at 12:01face=-Bold; With the clock ticking closer to midnight on New Year's Eve, Kahealanialoha Contemplo was urged by nurses and her boyfriend at Kaiser Moanalua Hospital to wait until 2007 to give ...
East-West Center's tsunami fund spent
Jan 02, 2007; ... Two years and $507,000 after the deadly Southeast Asia tsunami, the East-West Center in Manoa is closing its books on its relief fund. Center officials announced yesterday that they will be distributing the final 2 percent of donations made by many local residents, including students and ...
UH offers first Ph.D. in a native language
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; UH-Hilo offers a doctorate in revitalizing the Hawaiian tongueface=-Bold; HILO » University of Hawaii at Hilo professor Hiapo Perreira is working on a doctorate in revitalizing the Hawaiian language, specializing in analyzing Hawaiian literature. So it was ...
State DOH is tops at urging healthful ways
Jan 02, 2007 ... Hawaii's state Department of Health has been recognized as the best state agency in the nation to address problems of tobacco use, obesity, lack of physical activity and improper nutrition. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt recently presented the ...
THE 118TH ROSE PARADE - Hawaii on the march at Rose Parade
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Punahou and two "Star Wars" fans add isle flair to the paradeface=-Bold; PASADENA, Calif. » Hundreds of thousands of spectators bundled up in jackets and blankets lined the streets yesterday for the 118th Rose Parade that featured a salute to "Star Wars" in which two Hawaii ...
Big surf may threaten homes, roads
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Morning waves as high as 30 feet might hit the North Shore, Civil Defense warnsface=-Bold; Civil Defense officials last night warned North Shore residents about a building west-northwest swell that could threaten homes and roads with wave faces as high as 30 feet early ...
Dual scan doubles up on cancer
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A facility in Kakaako merges PET and CT systems to cut diseaseface=-Bold; A facility combining two technologies to detect cancers and diagnose other physical problems has opened at Waterfront Plaza in Kakaako. It is the first in the state with both a Positron ...
Professor, expert on politics brought bipartisan polling to Hawaii
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Daniel Webster Tuttle, Jr. / 1925-2006face=-Bold; Daniel Webster Tuttle, Jr., the political pollster and educator who pioneered political polling in Hawaii, died on Dec. 23. He was 81. His wife of 59 years, Elsie Tuttle, said he had been battling pneumonia at the ...
Fewer fires this year from fireworks
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The HFD blames the illegal aerial versions of the isle tradition for igniting blazesface=-Bold; Illegal aerial fireworks colored Oahu's sky on New Year's Eve, but fortunately caused fewer fires this year, Honolulu Fire Department officials said yesterday. "It was ...
Entries from students sought for video contest
Jan 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; The TV spots aim to fight substance abuse and promote fitnessface=-Bold; Intermediate and high school students are invited to participate in a Teen Video Awards Contest by creating public service announcements to fight drugs, underage drinking and smoking, and encourage ...
Isle inventor takes shot at pingpong
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Secil Boyd develops a three-player version of the popular gameface=-Bold; KAILUA-KONA » Secil Boyd keeps dreaming up new ideas, from remote-control flying gadgets to new table games and even space-matter theories. "My mind doesn't seem to turn off so easily," the ...
[ INSIDE HAWAII INC. ] - Housekeeping with style at the W
Jan 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Anna Lau moves to a boutique hotel to seek out more challengesface=-Bold; face=+Bold; Questionface=-Bold; : Why is your title director of style? face=+Bold; Answerface=-Bold; : I think the W is a special hotel. We try to have something special. Style is more ...
Birmingham man
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The "American Idol" brings his Bible-Belt charm to Hawaiiface=-Bold; WELL, you can take the guy out of Birmingham, but you can't take the Birmingham -- wait, the guy is still in Birmingham after all. "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard, celebrated for wearing shirts with ...
COMING UP - Join the whale count
Jan 02, 2007 ... The humpback whales have returned and volunteers are needed to count the creatures at 65 locations around Oahu, the Big Island and Kauai. The Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary will conduct the counts on the last Saturdays of January, February and March, from 8 a.m. to ...
Enforcement tops environmentalists' agenda
Jan 02, 2007; ... Invasive species, the Superferry, carbon dioxide and depleted uranium are all items environmentalists plan to take up with the Hawaii Legislature in its 2007 session. But one issue rises above all others: the need for more enforcement. "We can have all the rules in the world. If ...
RAINBOW WARRIOR VOLLEYBALL - Warriors prepare for new season with exhibitions
Jan 02, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hawaii hits the court tomorrow against British Columbiaface=-Bold; The reddish color tinting Gym I yesterday wasn't residue from New Year's Eve firecrackers. It was self-described rust as the Hawaii men's volleyball team took the court for the first practice of ...
OIA BASKETBALL - Austin leads upset of Kalaheo
Jan 03, 2007; ... He's not quite the six-million-dollar man, but Stevie Austin gave Moanalua a happy ending last night. Austin came up with two key steals for layups during a pivotal second-half run and finished with 15 points as Moanalua upset No. 4 Kalaheo 54-48 at Moanalua's gym. The effort by ...
ILH BASKETBALL - Punahou, Saint Louis, Kamehameha expected to push Iolani
Jan 03, 2007; ... There is no sleeper in the galactic basketball federation known as the Interscholastic League of Honolulu. In fact, only Rip Van Winkle would wake up today thinking that five-time defending state champion Iolani has another crown easily within reach. At least one coach refuses to think ...
State will dig up Ala Moana Blvd.
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A resurfacing project starts Monday with trenches being dug during night hoursface=-Bold; Expect some traffic woes on Ala Moana Boulevard throughout the rest of the year, as the state begins a resurfacing project Monday. The yearlong $12.5 million project will ...
Transit foe chosen to lead City Council
Jan 03, 2007; ... One of the toughest critics of a rail mass transit system for Oahu now leads the legislative body that last month approved the largest public works project in state history. City Councilwoman Barbara Marshall was voted in as Council chairwoman yesterday at the inauguration and ...
Resistance to Kona project grows
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; County officials are opposed to state plans for Kona Kai Ola projectface=-Bold; KAILUA-KONA » The private 530-acre Kona Kai Ola development planned for state land north of Kailua-Kona faces serious opposition from county officials despite efforts by Jacoby Development Inc ....
Tavares sworn in as second Maui mayor in family
Jan 03, 2007; ... Charmaine Tavares was sworn into office yesterday, becoming the second Tavares to serve as Maui mayor. She was sworn in on the same family Bible used by her father, the late Maui Mayor Hannibal Tavares, who served in the late 1970s and into the '80s. The younger Tavares, 63, a ...
Bringing back the beach
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Residents and tourists laud the Kuhio sand restorationface=-Bold; Tourists and local residents praised the new, wider Kuhio Beach yesterday as the state's $500,000 sand replenishment project drew near an end. "I've been watching this every day," said Canadian John ...
Effects of pretrial rulings feared
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Arguments will begin in the court-martial of Ehren Watadaface=-Bold; A military judge is expected to hear arguments and make critical decisions beginning tomorrow on the parameters of 1st Lt. Ehren Watada's court-martial, and that may decide the trial's outcome before it ...
Splendid outlook
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The host of the "Splendid Table" radio show has definite expectations for the year to comeface=-Bold; GOURMET CHEF Lynne Rosetto Kasper has talked with people about food every week for more than 11 years on her national radio show "The Splendid Table." Approximately 60,000 ...
'Table' talk: 'I want to put Italy in people's mouths'
Jan 03, 2007; ... "The Splendid Table's" Lynne Rosetto Kasper can answer almost any question about food, but during her visit to Hawaii next week, she might need guidance from local experts. For instance, she wants to learn about taro, plans to eat at Chef Mavro's and Alan Wong's and would like to try "those ...
Few areas ace disaster review
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Honolulu is among the bulk with mixed scores for emergency communicationsface=-Bold; WASHINGTON » Only six of 75 U.S. metropolitan areas won the highest grades for their emergency agencies' ability to communicate during a disaster, five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist ...
GADGETS - An inexpensive tool gives your knife blade a new edge
Jan 03, 2007; ... A good way to start the new year in the kitchen is to sharpen those knives. If tending to your blades isn't routine, you'll be surprised how much more efficiently you can work when you're knives are primed. December's Cook's Illustrated magazine included a how-to, as well as ratings for ...
Parents of slain mom taking care of baby boy
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The child's father is in Leavenworth, and the grandparents have temporary custodyface=-Bold; The son of a murdered Schofield Barracks soldier is now under the temporary foster custody of his maternal grandparents. Steve and Donna LaDuke of Warroad, Minn., took Elijah ...
THE ELECTRIC KITCHEN - Seafood salad is appropriate after rich holiday foods
Jan 03, 2007; ... A LOT of people are talking about eating more salads these days -- perhaps because of New Year's resolutions to eat healthier, or because they need a reprieve from all the rich foods consumed during the holidays. The Hawaiian Seafood Salad is a meal in itself -- fresh fish and vegetables ...
Hokule'a gears for journey ahead
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The voyaging canoe's crew gears for its journey to Micronesia and Japanface=-Bold; Hokule'a Capt. Bruce Blankenfeld points to land at least three miles away from Kewalo Basin that looks like a fingernail. That shows the difficulty of finding low-lying atolls on the ...
Navy's new anti-sub planes headed here
Jan 03, 2007; ... The Navy wants to station its newest twin-engine jet patrol and anti-submarine reconnaissance planes at Kaneohe Bay beginning in 2011. They would replace the aging P-3 Orion subhunters pressed into service in 1969. face=+Bold; P-8A MULTIMISSION MARITIME AIRCRAFTface=-Bold; ...
HPU's VP 'was one of Hawaii's top executives'
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Lloyd Fujie / 1947-2006face=-Bold; Lloyd Fujie, senior vice president of Hawaii Pacific University and former managing partner in Hawaii for Deloitte & Touche LLC, died Thursday. His family said Fujie died on his 59th birthday, one day after experiencing ...
Lingle trip focuses on promoting science
Jan 03, 2007; ... Gov. Linda Lingle leaves for a mainland trip tomorrow to view an international high school robotics contest and meet Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway. Kamen is the eccentric multimillionaire who founded the robotics competition, called FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of ...
PGA TOUR GOLF - King of Kapalua
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Australian Stuart Appleby is so comfortable at the Mercedes he bought a home on the courseface=-Bold; KAPALUA, Maui » Most of Stuart Appleby's fondest memories as a golfer have occurred right here at the Plantation Course, so it was only fitting for him to buy a piece of ...
RAINBOW WARRIOR BASKETBALL - UH runs into hot NMSU in Las Cruces
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The Aggies beat the 'Bows in the WAC tourney last seasonface=-Bold; So much for easing into the new year. For the Hawaii basketball team, the first week of 2007 brings with it the start of its Western Athletic Conference run, beginning with a road game against a team ...
Ashley hit with more than 100 complaints
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The Waikele store abruptly closed its doors in Novemberface=-Bold; AT LEAST 100 customers of the shuttered Ashley Furniture store in Waikele have filed a complaint with the state Office of Consumer Protection, and with the last of its inventory sold at an auction over the ...
OUR OPINION - FDA should listen to concerns about cloned food animals
Jan 02, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold;The Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve consumption of meat and milk products from cloned animals. CONSUMERS squeamish about being served tonkatsu from a cloned pig need not worry, at least for the time being. The Food and Drug ...
RAINBOW WARRIOR VOLLEYBALL - Warriors' Beckwith seeking perfection
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; He is running out of time to win a titleface=-Bold; It's always like this. That adrenaline rush when seeing the first hint of a swell that could ... should ... maybe ... turn into the best ride of his life. Brian Beckwith, the longboard rider, is always seeking that ...
Hawaii malls optimistic about holiday sales
Jan 03, 2007; ... Holiday sales have not been officially tallied, but local mall managers are optimistic. Ala Moana Center is expecting the year 2006 to record a "strong" single-digit increase over 2005 figures, according to Matthew Derby, director of tourism and public relations for owner face=+Bold; ...
RAINBOW WAHINE BASKETBALL - League play begins with Rainbow Wahine in the chase
Jan 03, 2007; ... Hawaii women's basketball coach Jim Bolla doesn't look ahead when preparing the Rainbow Wahine for the next game, but he is convinced his team can make a statement the next two weekends. Hawaii starts the 16-game Western Athletic Conference schedule tomorrow against the New Mexico State ...
HIGH SCHOOL REPORT - Rising AND Shining
Jan 03, 2007; ... face=+Bold; A positive attitude helps Keaau coach Ishibashi overcome leukemia and other obstaclesface=-Bold; HE'S BACK, a little older, a little wiser and more thankful than ever. Wade Ishibashi has every reason in the world to rest and recover from six trips from Hilo to Oahu in 2006 ....
OUR OPINION - Lawmakers should be quick in restoring gas tax exemption
Jan 03, 2007 ... face=+Bold; THE ISSUEface=-Bold;A state law exempting gasoline containing ethanol from the general excise tax expired at the end of 2006. HAWAII motorists began this week to pay the nation's highest gasoline tax because of the failure of last year's Legislature to extend a ...
RAINBOW WAHINE BASKETBALL - Zagrobelna feels at home here
Jan 04, 2007; ... Iwona Zagrobelna has come a long way to play for the Hawaii Rainbow Wahine. Not only is she thousands of miles from her home in Poland, she arrived in this country not knowing any English. "I never intended to come to the United States, so I never learned English," said ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL - Sealy helps Thompson rally past McKinley
Jan 04, 2007 ... Tristan Sealy scored a game-high 34 points to lead Thompson over McKinley 59-54 last night in the Oahu Interscholastic Association White Division opener for both teams at McKinley High School gym. Brooks Collins added 10 points for Thompson, which rallied from a 23-18 halftime deficit to ...
Tax raises isle gas price
Jan 04, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Some lawmakers want to reinstate an exemption that expired Mondayface=-Bold; Reinstatement of the general excise tax on gasoline brought about an expected increase in pump prices, along with a call from some lawmakers and Gov. Linda Lingle to restore a tax exemption that had ...
Northern Marianas respected 'Mr. Lee'
Jan 04, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Lincoln Emeterio Delos Santos / 1954-2006face=-Bold; Hawaii-born Lincoln Emeterio Delos Santos, a Saipan businessman and active community member and a former Republican Party officer in the Northern Marianas, died Christmas Eve at his home in Saipan. He was 52. Known ...
Isle home market soft but steady, experts say
Jan 04, 2007; ... face=+Bold; The market expects a healthy 2007face=-Bold; The slight increase in Honolulu's single-family home and condominium prices in December has not changed any minds about the softening market here. Median prices for single-family homes increased a scant 0.6 percent to ...
Paradise costly for health workers
Jan 04, 2007; ... KAILUA-KONA » West Hawaii bid goodbye to more than a dozen primary-care physicians and specialists during the last couple of years, prompting many to declare a health care crisis. With few other choices, many residents have been either going without health care or turning to Kona ...