Sterling Higa

Elementary school teachers rarely go viral, but this weekend Jasmynn Nakasone of Lāʻie Elementary did. The rubber-slipper-clad teacher had been sharing videos of her lessons on social media. A few clips were stitched together by the X account Libs of TikTok and have since racked up more than 200,000 views. Since then, Nakasone has removed the original clips. And BYU–Hawaiʻi appears to have taken down a faculty profile that listed Nakasone under its Faculty of Education and Social Work.

Kēhau Manijo went to a prison church service because it was something to do. She walked out saved. ASD opinion columnist Sterling Higa on the four lives in Civil Beat’s meth series, and what the two who lived have in common. (Illustration via Firefly AI) The room had no windows. It was an ordinary prison room at the Women’s Community Correctional Center in Kailua, and Kēhau Manijo went to the church service there because, in her words, it was something to do.

Maui County has been airing its laundry in public for a week now. Mayor Richard Bissen faces a close race for reelection. He is in open conflict with his police chief, John Pelletier, whom the Maui Police Commission placed on leave last Wednesday. Pelletier answered with a press conference. He said the mayor is under criminal investigation, and the suspension was payback.