
APPLAUSE

Dear Pamela,
While walking to my car with a girlfriend and my 1-year-old son, I noticed a man holding two tote bags that looked like mine.
CLICK CHICK

Hawaii was the only state for years that didn’t have Google Street View - now it’s finally here! Google announced high-resolution imagery of Oahu and Maui has been added to Street View on Google Maps, and that Hawaii is the 50th state to be featured in Street View (saving the best for last).
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If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, then the work of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is worth more than its weight in gold - some would say what they do is priceless.
Read Column>>GOOD NEIGHBORS

Kathy Custer launched the online resource KeikiSitters.com after having a few none-too-pleasant baby-sitting experiences herself growing up.
Read Column>>GUEST COLUMN
Editor’s note: Hakim Ouansafi is the president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. In his column Just What We Need, Islam Day (May 20), Jerry Coffee argues against having a state-sponsored Islam Day based on his (mis)understanding of Islam’s position on women.
Read Column>>MIDWEEK POLL
ERICA APANA
Kalihi Business Owner
“Marc Jacobs. His designs are fun but classy.”
Read Column>>MOONLIGHTING

I wrote a column a few weeks ago saying that while it was too bad teachers and the state had to come to agreement on a flawed contract, both sides had been forced into it by our state’s dire economic woes. I thought at the time that there was no choice. And I said it is now time for parents to step up and help teachers do their jobs by providing more resources.
Read Column>>OLD FRIENDS

Lubbock, Texas, native Dita Holifield has undoubtedly made a mark in the country music scene as “Queen of Country” not only in Hawaii
Read Column>>PET PARADE
PROOF POSITIVE
By Michael D. Bennett, M.D.,
Founder and President
Retina Institute of Hawaii & Project Vision
More than a decade ago, I examined a young college graduate who, unexpectedly, was experiencing vision loss in both eyes. She had diabetes, and up until that point had never obtained an eye exam. I believe her vision could have been saved if her condition had been detected earlier.
Read Column>>SUSAN'S PAGE

We need either a new definition for the word “crisis” or else our media and politicians need to find a new word to describe situations and events.
Read Column>>THE YOUNG VIEW

“Women are so complicated,” many of my male friends lament. “It’s so hard to know what they want.”
Read Column>>WAHA NUI

Surfrider Foundation honored Kaneohe artist Bill Braden last weekend with its Environmentally Friendly Local Company Award for Bill’s work to preserve the Islands’ beauty through his paintings and activism
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Anyone who reads this column knows how much I dislike going clothes shopping with my wife. It’s actually gotten a lot better than when we first started going out together, for as any man can tell you, you will do practically anything for your girlfriend, even clothes shopping.
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