It's a truncated edition of Ask The Mayor with Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi this week -- after a power surge and outage knocked out our KHVH studios halfway through the program! But...it's a power-packed half hour with the Mayor answering at least one call, reviewing last weeks questions wiht updated answers, AND talking about the endless battle to get a new landfill settled for the island of Oahu.

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Rick Hamada talks about an issue he says has been a non-stop battle for the past **30 Years!** of the Rick Hamada Program: finding a location for a new landfill on Oahu. What's the latest on this never-ending debate? Listen here!

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Rick Hamada starts Wednesday with a reaction to a FOX News story about further increases in the minimum wage in the state of California.

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On this episode of Sustaining Hawaii, brought to you by Bayer, Rick Hamada speaks with Chad Buck from the Hawaii Foodservice Alliance. Get to know Chad and learn what it takes to get food from farm to facility to your dining room table. Plus, nearly 3 years after the tragic wildfires in Lahaina, Chad and Rick talk about the days in the aftermath of the fires and the Hawaii Foodservice Alliances' efforts to bring desperately needed supplies to the Valley Isle.

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Rick Hamada takes a few minutes to dive into the overall political environment today as we head towards Hawaii's primary election on Saturday and the general election in November.

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Rick Hamada checks in once again with Ira Mehlman of F.A.I.R. (Federation for American Immigration Reform) about the latest stories on immigration. Yes, the southern border is no longer wide open, but the people who streamed across the border unvetted during the Biden administration continue to cause problems in the interior of the United States.

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Chad Blair from Honolulu Civil Beat joins the Rick Hamada program this morning to give a preview and overview of the upcoming Hawaii primary election, coming up this Saturday August 8th.

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Rick Hamada speaks to Stan Fitchman, publisher of the Politics Hawaii website (which recently won several Society of Professional Journalist Hawaii Chapter awards, including first place in both online feature reporting (L) and opinion (R)). Stan and Rick get into more details of the Hawaii corruption scandal -- going beyond Lt. Governor Sylvia Luke to the other persons involved you may not be familiar with.

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On this week's episode of Community Matters, Rick Hamada speaks with Chad Buck, head of the Hawaii Food Service Alliance, about Hawaii's food infrastructure, importation, and how vulnerable we are to disruption. Plus, on this 3rd anniversary of the tragic Maui wildfires that killed more than 100 people, Chad talks about the efforts of the Hawaii Food Service Alliance to get the needed food and supplies to Maui in the aftermath of the disaster...and how Maui continues its recovery today.

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It's the latest edition of the Pacific Resource Partnership hour on the Rick Hamada Program. On this edition, the idea of “Value Capture” is in focus, with a study on infrastructure investment & public revenues in focus -- zeroing in on 3 new Skyline station stops expected to produce significant tax revenues into the future as transit-oriented development takes off.

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