We revisit our conversation with Jodi Endo Chai, co-author of the 2000 okazuya guide "Oh, 'Cause You Hungry!" and Executive Officer of the State of Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, about the classic delicatessens and the struggles these family businesses face in trying to survive. Listen below.

Rick Barboza shows you a few of the Native Hawaiian plants at his nursery, Hui Kū Maoli Ola.

A new season of HIKI NŌ, the first new show in the program’s second decade a recap of the first ten years of HIKI NŌ and personal stories shared by students across the state. HIKI NŌ #1301

On 7/26/22, we had an advanced virtual screening of The Green Planet: Human Worlds. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the episode featured the Maui Invasive Species Committee's work on miconia and the University of Hawaiʻi's native plant extinction prevention efforts.

Jodi Endo Chai visits Sekiyaʻs Okazuya

The re-drawing of legislative districts due to shifts in population has created challenging election contests across the state this year. On Hawaiʻi Island, incumbents Laura Acasio and Lorraine Inouye face Wil Okabe in the Democratic Primary for District 1, that includes Hilo and part of the Hamakua Coast. Acasio and Okabe will face off in a live format. On Oʻahu there is no incumbent in Senate District 19 which covers parts of Pearl City, Waipahu and ʻEwa. State Representative Henry Aquino faces newcomer Roger Clemente in the Democratic Primary.

UH Football Head Coach Timmy Chang answers some rapid-fire questions for PBS Hawaiʻi.

Baker and Makawao resident Mitzi Toro, better known as “The Maui Cookie Lady,” tells how she got an endorsement from one of Hollywood's biggest action stars, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

More talent represented from all over Hawaiʻi Island on Live from the Empty Palace.

Master storyteller Lopaka Kapanui tells us about the legendary Kasha of Kaimukī.