July 2008

Don't Wait for a Cash Crisis

Noreen Gouveia

A lone wolf weaves himself into the tight North Shore community

Mark Berthold

Chief Manini Jim Levine, or Manini Marketing, offers five cost-effective steps to better marketing.

Jason Ubay

Before going to sleep at 2 a.m., University of Hawaii at Manoa junior Joey Aquino started an interest group on the social networking Web site Facebook.By the end of the week, more than 100 UH...

Matthew K. Ing

Warmly colored armchairs make the conference room at Great Spaces look more like a lounge in a hip café than a place you might expect to attend an office meeting.

Melissa Kelsey

A record number of Japanese are getting their weekly Hawaiian escape by subscribing to the Official Hawaii Podcast, the most popular Japanese-language travel podcast on iTunes since its release...

Casey Chin

With gasoline prices on the Valley Isle exceeding $4.40 (and climbing), its residents are boarding the bus system in increasing numbers.

Jason Ubay

The cost of healthcare goes beyond buying insurance. There’s lost productivity when workers are out sick or can’t function at peak capacity. People also miss work — or get distracted — when...

Collette P. Fox

Last year, the Big Island spent about $750 million on fossil fuels, despite the abundance of alternatives such as solar, wind and hydro energy right in its backyard.

Shara Enay

Agri-real estate communities in Hawaii are on the rise, but the idea of developing luxury dwellings on prime agricultural land on Kauai is “agri-vating” a lot of residents. However, the jury is...

Shara Enay

Don’t let jet lag impede your travel plans any longer.

Shara Enay

If lugging a set of golf clubs through busy airports or paying popular extra baggage fees to the airline carriers isn’t part of an ideal vacation or business trip, there’s a new world for you

Kyle Galdeira

Every year, ukulele players from around the world take over the Kapiolani Park Bandstand and strum their hearts out as if every single one of them just sucked down a double shot of espresso.

Shara Enay

The Sunday hike seemed like a good idea. But now you’re trapped between a wild boar and a 500-foot cliff and your cell phone cut out a few miles ago.

Jen Tadaki Catanzaratti

It's Bad, But Here's What You Can Do

Kelli Abe Trifinovitch

Kai Sensors, a startup founded in August 2007, is the Hawaii innovation success story the state craves.

Scott Radway

Thomas B. Fargo, President and CEO, Hawaii Superferry

What needs to be done to preserve Hawaii's important agricultural lands?

Courtside Cafe serves up food that's by the people and for the people

David K. Choo

A portrait of Hawaii business life

From hawking lemonade to managing personal fortunes, Heather Moir-Dangler has learned a lifetime of lessons about small business success

Sheila Sarhangi

What our readers have to say

Nine local leaders provide a roadmap for difficult economic times ahead

Jolyn Okimoto Rosa

The need and the will are there. So what's the holdup?

Jason Ubay