Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 21, Number 9, 1 September 2004 — KWO SURVEY COMMENTS [ARTICLE]

KWO SURVEY COMMENTS

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• You publish a good news source. Thanks. • Overall, I am very pleased with the Ka Wai Ola. It has been my way of being 'connected' to Hawaiian issues and news! • I am glad to be receiving Ka Wai Ola in a more timely manner — thanks for the air mail to the continent. • I love everything about it! • I just received my first issue - so mueh information, there's no eomparison I've seen yet! • I like the mo'olelo eolumn by Claire Hughes, information on the reunions and family genealogy, information on land for sale on the Hawaiian Homesteads here on O'ahu and the outside islands. • I commend Ka Wai Ola 's efforts to be a respectable source of information and education, and that it invites its readers to be participants in what goes on not just in OHA, but in Hawai'i. • I like the Nū Hou, Calendar, Mele 'Ailana, and Ho'ohui 'Ohana. • Like: Letters to the Editor because people ean express their opinions on issues. Like: legislative issues and bills going to Legislature. Like: Ho'ohui 'Ohana to see whieh families are planning reunions. You are doing a great job keeping us informed. • Ka Wai Ola is my main source of Hawaiian news in general besides the T.V. The 'ohana reunion section is one I particularly like - lots of information • I like it most when you send KWO to my loved ones who are on the eontinent. It's important for them to be knowledgeable of Hawaiian issues. • I appreciate very mueh your continued coverage of bureaucratic misuse of the natural environment and the

destruction of land, ancient artifacts and grave sites. • I like the sovereignty/Hawaiian governance, native rights and legal issues, OHA news, OHA trustee activities. You are doing a very good job in improving the Ka Wai Ola o OHA newspaper. Keep up the good work. • The legislative report in April was extremely important, I'm glad to see it! I'm glad to see articles on genealogy. It is an integral part of increasing knowledge of the families of Hawaiian ancestry, and it teaches appreciation of eaeh individual's involvement in the culture of Hawai'i. • Boyd Mossman's article on Hawaiian society: emohon v. law was excellent! He shows wisdom and high integrity. Thank creator for a person with such clarity. • I enjoy reading this paper. It makes me feel less homesick for my island and families there. • Being away from Hawai'i, Ka Wai Ola keeps me updated on a lot of issues happening back home. • Hawaiian news not accessible from continent media - mahalo nui! • I left Hawai'i for the mainland five years ago, mostly out of frustration - nui waha; 'a'ole hana. I onee asked OHA to drop me from the rolls. I am thankful I was not. Ka Wai Ola has been valuable to me in staying eonnected to my roots. • "No Ka Moku Honu" (Hawaiians on the continent). Good touch. • Thank you for your commitment to our people. I'm proud to be a Hawaiian and appreciate the attention that works towards our growth. Imua ! Keep up the good work. • Less "wala'au" — more "nitty gritty" facts! • Many of the stories have an agenda and are not as balanced as traditional

newspapers whose journalists are bound by a strict code of ethics. Still, Ka Wai Ola provides information for Hawaiians by Hawaiians. • Arrives late on Neighbor Islands; too often calendar events are pau already. • Please mail KWO sooner. Sometimes it arrives 20-30 days into the month. Mahalo! • I receive the Ka Wai Ola too late to take advantage of the events listed. • Not enough stories about other islands • I don't like OHA trustee columns when they write negative comments about their fellow OHA trustees. It shows a laek of professionalism. They could disagree about issues without faulting eaeh other. • Trustees should work together and not write about negative things in paper about other trustees. Work it out. We hear enough of Hawaiians pulling eaeh other down. You are there to benefit us. • Trustee columns not needed at all — waste of time. Incorporate it into stories that the readers would be interested in. I suspect they waste too mueh of their time on it! • Trustee opinion/editorial pieces are too mueh: fewer trustees eaeh issue, or ONLY one page for one or two trustees would be adequate. OHA has a credibility problem in terms of "what do you do with all your money?" • I would love to see more Native Hawaiian business advertisements in the paper. This way we could support and sustain these business ventures and have more Hawaiians in the power seat • Perhaps minimize the ads to a lesser space and devote more of the paper to pertinent news and information. I'd like to see less of the trustee's messages. Instead of having messages from all, you could rotate between the trustees with two or three contrasting viewpoints. • Layout might be livened up a bit — awfully gray. Looks rather academic — not reader-friendly to those without college degrees. But I do love this publication and am grateful for the insight and news it gives of the people I love. • I would like to see more excerpts from scholarly publications relating to Hawaiians — such as diet, social structure, values, customs, religion and socio-economic interactions. I do not believe we (everyday Hawaiians) know enough about our rich culture. • Teaching in three O'ahu prisons, I feel KWO should be in the hands of eaeh inmate who wants one. Simply dropping some off at the entrance rarely results in circulation. What are you doing with inmates in Oklahoma

and Mississippi? • Would like Hawaiian recipes on food, snacks, and desserts. Teach about healthy foods for our overweight adults and children. Teach simple Hawaiian words for our ehildren. • This is a great newspaper! I would like more of the kūpuna's stories of the ancient days back when. Also the Ho'ohui 'Ohana Section is very important and useful. • How about a "must-read" list - not necessarily new books but books any Hawaiian should have read to understand what went down 1778-1959, plus before and since. • How about a page for children — simple Hawaiian phrases, crossword puzzles asking for simple Hawaiian words, a far-out picture to identify. • Would like to see expanded OHA business successes, more calendar of events, how is OHA helping in education activities, OHA hotline for business assistance, native law line. • A section should be dedicated to addresses and numbers of those helping the Hawaiians that are in poverty and the inmates who are coming out of prison. • Would like to read more about successful Hawaiian young people, their accomplishments, those who receive honors due to hard work and effort in school. • Some of the things that I feel Ka Wai Ola is not covering is how well some of our young ones are doing both in education and sports achievement. Also some of our Hawaiianowned businesses - you have only covered those that have gone for loans that you offer. • Seldom are there articles on environmental issues, whieh I think is unfortunate, given that our health, prosperity, and livelihoods all ultimately depend on the environment. Please highlight efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle as well as alternative energy; home gardening, eomposting, bicycling as a viable form of transportation and non-toxic and non mechanized home, garden and lawn care. • I'd like to see more of 'ōlelo Hawai'i articles, history, language, etc. • I would like to read more about old Hawaiian history and old legends! How names of streets eame about and their meaning. I really don't care for the politics! We ean read about it in our daily papers. • I would like to read about more myths and legends of Hawai'i. You need to "lighten-up" somewhat! The issues are so heavy! • I am part-Hawaiian, but I do not know mueh of the Hawaiian language. Would it be possible to translate the phrases in parenthesis after it is written in Hawaiian? If you do, this paper will be mueh easier to read. ■