The Conversation: Mayors on Hotel Room Tax Collection; COVID Updates From Hawaiʻi Island and Maui Health Officials

Hawaiʻi mayors express their thoughts on the state collecting hotel room tax for their counties; Civil Beat Reality Check discusses another side effect of the pandemic impacting students - a school bus driver shortage; Hawaiʻi County's health district officer talks potential additional restrictions and the approval of the Pfizer vaccine; HPR reporter Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi gives a debrief on increasing COVID cases on Hawaiʻi Island; Maui County health district head Dr. Lorrin Pang discusses the Delta variant and his participation in the Pono Coalition for Informed Consent; and the songs of two different Hawaiʻi cardinals is the subject of our Manu Minute.