August 15, 2023 – CurtBile.com

Afire, Aloha

An aerial image taken on August 10 2023 shows destroyed homes and buildings burned to the ground in Lahaina in the...

Lahaina was dry enough to burn, in part, because agriculture and development turned it into a tinderbox.Photograph

Former Mr. President Barak Obama weighed in today as a childhood native of Honolulu.

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