Mazie in the News

  • Made In Hawaii Festival Sustains Local Businesses
    Aug 20, 2010  - For many, the Made in Hawaii Festival is chance to buy local food and even do some early Christmas shopping. But this year’s event themed “Buy Hawaii, Keep Aloha Strong” is also a huge opportunity for vendors. From Kauai to the Big Island, there's an array of locally made food, jewelry, and artw... More
  • Expanding wildlife refuge would help birds
    Jul 28, 2010  - The American Bird Conservancy says a proposed expansion of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge on the Big Island would help protect endangered birds. U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono earlier this year introduced a bill that would expand the refuge by adding on four adjacent parcels. The forest and a... More
  • The Capitol Hill experience
    Jul 12, 2010  - From the outside looking in, life on the Hill seems glamorous. Every bus stop, every street corner, every Congressional building is bustling with purpose-driven people who manage to balance a large coffee in one hand, while furiously typing away on their PDA device with the other. Members of Congres... More
  • 22 Teach For America Teachers Heading To Big Island’s Highest-Need Public Schools This Fall
    Jun 9, 2010  - Teach For America announced today that 22 of the organization’s new teachers will come to the Big Island this fall to teach in the some of the area’s highest-need public schools. These teachers are among more than 4,500 new Teach For America corps members nationwide, the largest incoming corps in th... More
  • Hospice goes to Washington
    May 2, 2010  - Lori Miller, executive director of Kaua‘i Hospice, and hundreds of hospice advocates from across the nation last week urged Congress to protect access to compassionate and high quality end-of-life care for all Americans. Miller joined her fellow advocates in Washington, D.C. as part of the National ... More
  • Congressional Democrats show off their artistic side -- and it's not bad!
    Apr 28, 2010  - Everyone knows about singing senators and other musical politicians because ... well, they always end up onstage at some rally or fundraiser, don't they? But for officials with quieter talents, the Woman's National Democratic Club is giving artistic pols a chance to shine with "Art in Congress," a... More
  • Eighteen Hawaiian families to receive new homes
    Mar 31, 2010  - Congresswoman Mazie Hirono participated in a ground breaking ceremony at the Department of Hawaiian Homelands housing development called "Kaupuni" in Waianae.  The project recieved a major boost in the form of a $10.2 million block grant though the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, voted on by... More
  • Congresswoman Hirono Congratulates Lahainalua's Tyler Vanderlaan on Acceptance to West Point
    Mar 18, 2010  - Congresswoman Mazie Hirono congratulates Lahainaluna student Tyler Vanderlaan for his acceptance of a nomination to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as highlighted in this article on Lahaina News.com: Lahainaluna High School senior Tyler Vanderlaan has accepted a nomination to atten... More
  • Five Questions for U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii
    Feb 24, 2010  - Watch the video from honoluluadvertiser.com More
  • Hirono Visits Food Bank
    Feb 24, 2010  - U.S. Rep. Mazie Hirono looks over canned goods Thursday at the Maui Food Bank in Wailuku with Richard Yust, the agency’s executive director. The nonprofit recently received $300,000 in federal stimulus funding. The money will pay for replacing a roof, and installing insulation, fire sprinklers and a... More

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