Honolulu Civil Beat

However, breadfruit has seen a resurgence in recent times.

In Hawaii, according to an article in Civil Beat, breadfruit production is booming, but similar to Puerto Rico, farmers can't keep up with demand.

We'll get back to the modern-day breadfruit situation in a second.

But before that, let's talk about how breadfruit made its way all the way from the Pacific to the Caribbean.

This seems to already be happening in the Marshall Islands, another place that is very, very, very affected by climate change, as in they're literally disappearing before our eyes.

There, breadfruit, which they call ulu, similar to other places in the Pacific, has seen better days.

They're growing smaller and less bountiful, according to one farmer that Civil Beat interviewed.

He thinks it's salt getting into the soil or the aquifer.

The Hawaii Supreme Court has handed down a decision that says the Department of Education must shell out $14 million to the family of a McKinley High School special needs student over how it handled a sex abuse case.

Here to talk about this is Honolulu Civil Beat's Stewart Yerton.

Good morning, Stewart.

Good morning, Catherine.

But thank you so much, Stuart.

Thank you, Catherine.

We've been hearing from Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Stuart Yerton.

You can read his story online at civilbeat.org. [gentle music]

state homeless coordinators.

Well, the two candidates for Hawaii's second congressional district faced off in a live-streamed forum hosted by Civil Beat today.

Debates and forums in the top races have been rare this year.

Representative Ed Case and Governor Green both refused debates.

The Civil Beat forum was the only face-off Tokuda, Congressman Joe Tokuda, agreed to, and it led to some informative and emotional moments.

As people stand scared, frustrated, and angry, I want to be that warm hand that greets them.

The warm hand that tells them, yes, we're going to get through this together by working with anyone we need to.

But we went up, um, to DC, and this is just in my role right now, and, and we talked to Del Marks.

I put this in Civil Beat.

He's the Assistant Secretary of War, and he had no idea about Hawaii's plate for, you know, housing shortage and how the military and their subsidies affect our rents and all of that.

And so we're talking to him about an hour and a half, uh, right after he got, um, confirmed by the Senate.

And these are the kind of things that could be on the way.

Um, and so you gotta say, "Why are you doing this?" These are some of the things that we're trying to stop.

When you go back to the m- the military and, "Hey, who deserves what?" Well, you know, go read the Civil Beat answer.

It's the best thing that I can give you.

I see.

So what is being asked is much narrower, and I'm very glad that Savannah Sherman, Esquire, who is the founding chair of the Animal Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, made a correction in a Civil Beat article recently, 'cause she said, "This case need not be understood as an argument that animals are entitled to the same set of rights as humans.

Instead, it is to say that our evolving legal system should come to recognize the advanced cognitive abilities of certain animals and grant them the specific and limited legal protections needed to support those abilities." She continues, "Sometimes the needs of animals may overlap with those of humans.

Providing for these needs through a writ of habeas corpus is a far cry from granting human rights as a whole to non-human animals." It's much narrower than saying, "Oh, elephants are people now."