All Hawaii News is now a registered nonprofit with big plans ahead

Lauer

 Good news for readers, researchers and donors! 

All Hawaii News is now a certified 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit organization registered with the IRS, the state Department of the Attorney General and the Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs. That means your donation is likely tax-deductable.

The IRS has listed All Hawaii News as a library. And that's great. Because that's the intent of forming the nonprofit -- to create a new, in-depth website to archive recaps and links to state news in an easy-to-search format. News is too often lost in the ever-changing media landscape, and this is one way to save history.

But creating and maintaining a website that's robust enough to handle all the demands of an online library will not be easy. Or cheap.

As a journalist, I've taken on powerful politicians and big-bucks corporations. I've weighed in on weighty issues and haven't hesitated to call it as I've seen it.

Government officials have gone to federal prison under my watch; government contractors have lost multi-million-dollar jobs.

But there's one thing that absolutely terrifies me: Asking for money to support my work.

Journalists were always taught not to ask. That was a job for the Sales Office, the Advertising Department. We were taught to be scrupulous about avoiding possible conflicts of interest.

Some journalists won't even take a cup of coffee from a source. That's starting to change, as bloggers join the news field and create one-person operations. But there's a fine line and journalists are well-advised not to cross it.

Asking for money just isn't easy. But every once in a while, I have to grit my teeth and ask.

Putting All Hawaii News together each day takes about two hours of reading, culling and aggregating from almost 20 different media sources, so as to provide the top political and government news from all the Hawaiian Islands.

This is a one-woman show. I usually start at 4 a.m. so folks can read the news highlights with their morning coffee or on their smartphones during their daily commute. (Not while they're driving, of course.)

I've been doing this for more than 10 years. Even on vacation.

It would be very meaningful to me if those who find All Hawaii News a helpful news blog to keep you in touch in a hurry, or that @allhawaiinews is often first with political and government news updates, to help put a little jingle in our holiday.

I really hope to get the new website in gear in 2023.

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A donation no matter how modest would be a vote of confidence in my efforts.

Mahalo, Mele Kalikimaka and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou from All Hawaii News!

Signed,

Publisher, aggregator, columnist, editor and chief bottle-washer Nancy Cook Lauer

Fundraisers, blame games as Hawaii mops up after tsunami, Japanese, Hawaii residents trying to get home, more tsunami scenes and news from all the Hawaiian Islands

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Recent tragedies in Japan has sparked a special fundraiser in hopes to spread Aloha overseas. Grp Home has created special T-shirts for the "Aloha for Japan" fundraiser that will be available on Monday. Hawaii News Now.

Honolulu Festival Helps Japanese Disaster Victims. KITV4.

First Hawaiian Bank has donated $100,000 to establish a Japan-Hawaii Relief Fund to help survivors of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Pacific Business News

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says harmful levels of radioactivity are not expected in the United States due to damaged nuclear reactors in Japan. Associated Press.

Crews were busy over the weekend cleaning up and assessing damage, while American Red Cross volunteers were helping people after tsunami waves battered Hawaii early Friday. Associated Press.

Late Sunday afternoon, the office of Gov. Neil Abercrombie issued a statement explaining that he had signed a supplementary proclamation, "which expands and extends the previous State of Disaster Proclamation the Governor signed on Friday." Civil Beat.

In the wake of this morning’s statewide tsunami strike, Gov. Neil Abercrombie has issued an emergency proclamation and will seek federal assistance to pay for at least $3 million damages to state property alone. Hawaii Reporter.

Hundreds of visitors from Japan are still here in Hawaii trying to get home. KHON2.

On the Big Island residents are still picking up the pieces.KHON2.

Tsunami and aftermath videos. Big Island Video News.

The majority of damage caused by a series of tsunami waves that battered Hawaii Island's coasts Friday is primarily in West Hawaii, Hawaii County Civil Defense Administrator Quince Mento said Saturday. West Hawaii Today.

Although it destroyed homes, flooded businesses and damaged public infrastructure, Friday's costly tsunami could have been much worse. Tribune-Herald.

Volunteers, residents and visitors still in awe of the tsunami waves that battered the Kona Coast one day earlier spent Saturday enjoying ono grinds and ice cold brews at the Kona Brewers Festival. West Hawaii Today.

Maui County's harbors were back in business Saturday after a tsunami swept through them early Friday. Maui News.

Damage was reported on Molokai's east end, and county officials are still taking assessment reports of the area. Molokai Dispatch.

Late Thursday afternoon, Maui News Staff Writer Harry Eagar boarded the tugboat Hoku-Loa at Kahului. His aim was to write a feature story about the crew's overnight routine of hauling a Young Brothers barge from Kahului to Honolulu Harbor. Hours later, an 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan and generated a massive tsunami that would swamp the Pacific. Maui News.

Photographs of how the recent tsunami affected Kauai. Garden Island.

Officials are unsure how the tsunami affected the discovery of hundreds of dead fish found floating in the Ala Wai Canal Saturday morning. KITV4.

As people grasped for helpful information, the websites didn't step up. Civil Beat.

Hawaii County "absolutely" needs more tsunami sirens to warn coastal residents left vulnerable during Friday's disaster, says Kohala Councilman Pete Hoffmann. Tribune-Herald.

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was due to leave Pearl Harbor this morning with its 5,000-member crew and air wing. Star-Advertiser.

Dozens of people acquitted of minor criminal offenses because of mental illness have remained under the state's supervision for years, resulting in what experts say is wasteful spending of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars annually at a time of severe budget cuts. Star-Advertiser.

Lawmakers, for the second year in a row, have come up short in their effort to tackle the problem of upfront costs that are keeping many Hawaii residents from buying solar water heaters and other energy-efficient appliances. Star-Advertiser.

Two long-time Kaua‘i lawmakers will make a marked transition today in their careers as public servants if the state Senate confirms their gubernatorial appointments as expected. Garden Island.

The National Park Service has identified two sites in Maui as former Japanese internment camps. Associated Press.

Water Officials Prepared for APEC? Hawaii Public Radio.

Striking Hawaiian Electric Co. workers will be going back to work soon after voting in favor of a new labor deal with the company. Associated Press.