KAILUA—Luana Hills Golf and Country Club is a stunning combination of lush rolling hills, 100 foot tall trees and dense tropical rain forest. The course layout is done in the “links” style, with undulating greens and tight fairways. According to its website, Luana Hills Golf and Country Club is “spectacular and somewhat difficult, yet beautiful.”

The new Medicare prescription drug benefit (also known as Medicare Part D) will start up on January 1, 2006. That's just six months away, but most Medicare beneficiaries know very little about the benefit or how to get it.

The law defines reciprocal beneficiaries as two adults who are legally prohibited from marrying under state law.

This broad definition encompasses not only same-sex domestic partners but adult brothers and sisters, a widowed parent and a grown child, aunts and nephews, etc.

Those persons entering into a reciprocal beneficiary relationship must register their relationship as reciprocal beneficiaries with the Department of Health.

The Hawaii Family Leave Act and the US Family and Medical Leave Act allow covered workers to take leave to care for a family member with a “serious health condition.” Under the federal law, a “family member” is defined as spouse, children, and biological parents.

“The ILWU endorses John Kerry for U.S. President and John Edwards for U.S. Vice President.”

Four changes to the Hawaii State Constitutional will be on the November 2 General Election Ballot that threaten to undermine our basic freedom and rights as American citizens. These four amendments are being pushed by  ertain people and elements within our community for self-interest and political purposes.

LONG BEACH, Los Angeles—On April 28, 2004, a container exploded in the Port of Los Angeles just as it was being prepared to be loaded aboard a ship bound to Micronesia. It appears that vapor leaking from a propane or gas tank in the container exploded, blasting out its top, sides and back doors and scattering its contents across the terminal.

On or about September 12, 1931, a wife of a young naval officer stationed at Pearl Harbor (Thalia Massie) claimed she was raped by five local males (2 Japanese, 2 Hawaiians, and 1 Chinese Hawaiian) at Ala Moana Park.

Hawaii’s sugar industry is being hit hard by low sugar prices, which have dropped below 21 cents per pound for the last 10 months from October 2003 to July 2004. The low price has already caused one sugar producer in Michigan to forfeit 16,000 tons of sugar to the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) at the end of July.

The primary reason for the falling prices is the biggest users of sugar—bakery, cereal, and candy manufacturers—are buying less US made sugar.

“Best July ever.” “Strong growth in visitor arrivals.” “Continue to break all records.” These glowing words were used by the State’s Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to describe Hawaii’s latest visitor numbers in a press release on August 25, 2004.