Today, we continue with the third part of our guest series on the development of Indian casino gaming in California, by Jim Marino. (This series originally ran in the Santa Ynez Valley Journal.) Sometimes it seems as though the issue of gaming is an unspoken controversy that advocates of the Akaka Bill are desperately trying [...]
Aug 082010
So, how often do you like to kick back and watch a little Pacific Network Internet television? Yeah, me neither. But would you make more of an effort if you knew that they were getting nearly a million dollars from OHA for the creation of a “Hawaiian-themed internet television station and web portal”? It kinda [...]
Jul 092010
When you’re Hapa, you get used to people playing, “guess the ethnicity” with you. Especially on the mainland. (In Hawaii, the game is generally much shorter. In part because one of your cousins will inevitably walk by and put an end to things.) I actually don’t mind it though. I’ve always liked the way that [...]
Jul 052010
The Heritage Foundation has released its 2010 Index of Dependence on Government, and you will be unsurprised to hear that American dependence on government programs continues to grow–especially in the health and welfare sectors. Now, I will be the first to admit that, when confronted by a bevy of charts and words like “index” and [...]
Jul 022010
Break out the champagne and the 12-pages of Hawaiiglish, it’s OHA grant application time! (What is Hawaiiglish? It’s the name I’ve come up with for the bizarre hybrid of English and Hawaiian that is especially popular in the field of obtaining Hawaiian grants or talking about Hawaii when you’re running for office. You know . [...]
Yes, that Kellogg. Or, more accurately, his charitable legacy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. It’s Grrrrrreat! It was recently announced that Chaminade is the lucky recipient of a $200,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation for a program that will help promote racial equality and healing (their words, not mine) through . . . er . . [...]
In 2009, OHA gave a grant of $150,000 to the Waipa Foundation for a project that can best be described as an attempt at cultural conservation. This seems to be a something of a modern trend in Native Hawaiian granting, so if you’re looking for Native Hawaiian grant dollars, I can only recommend that you [...]
May 212010
Don’t think that I haven’t noticed a certain . . . cynicism coming from many of our analyses of the grants on our site. I swear that it’s not because I’m a curmudgeon with a skeptical nature. Well, let’s say that it’s not entirely because of the skeptic/curmudgeon thing. To be clear: I think that [...]
May 192010
So, if you’ve been living in a cave on Mars, with your fingers in your ears, going, “La, la, la, la, la” over and over again, you’ll probably be glad to hear that the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has launched an “informational” page to help people truly understand the implications of the Akaka Bill. Of [...]
Sometimes, I really have to wonder about the thinking behind some of these grant programs. Take, for example, the $444,500 granted in 2009 to the Ali’i Pauahi Hawaiian Civic Club from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (Yep, federal funds.) The grant is being given for Ka Mahi’ ai ‘Ihi o Wailea (The [...]
