The public interest and government-and-business interests are not one and the same, but it seems to be harder and harder..
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I’ve returned from traveling through Nepal and Bhutan last month just in time to file my U.S. and Hawaii taxes...
The photos with this story are the ones that keep me reminded of one of the happiest times of my..
This ongoing discussion about Hawaiian sovereignty has gotten hilarious because of the claims to a nonexistent throne. Some even suggest..
I don’t think anyone can say with a straight face that this has been a what-people-expected first term for Gov...
The nomination of Kailua High School grad Michael Wilson to the Hawaii Supreme Court should be rejected by the state..
Count me – the son of a union family – among those who would support some version here of Wisconsin’s..
The volcanic Galápagos Islands, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have had permanent human habitation only since 1833. So..
I haven’t been comfortable with University of Hawaii sports program financing for many years. I loved the old Fabulous Five..
He’s a Russian spy come over to our side. Victor Sheymov is a former high-level KGB operative who fled to..
The 1909 film Country Doctor was a tear-jerker in which a small-town American physician was torn between staying bedside with..
I get very huhu about the casual way Americans treat people in the armed services, war veterans and those still..
I’d hope that by the time this session of the Hawaii Legislature is pau, the current fad of claiming that..
I was a juror last October for Hawaii International Film Festival’s European entries: three great films and eight pieces of..
Our state prisons are overcrowded, lack adequate mental health treatment and cost us too much. But Hawaii voters and law-makers..
Happy New Year. But it begins with 47 million Americans on food stamps. Nothing to be happy about. Ringing in..
Merry Christmas. (I’m not a “Happy Holidays” kind of guy.) Most American colonists had no holiday greeting at all. Puritans,..
I’ve lived here 51 years and have been a reporter on and witness to all the Oahu development that began..
Let’s face it, this mixed plate of same-gender marriage, civil unions, sexual partnerships and children picking their gender identity is..
Here’s a question I’ve been hearing a lot lately: “Who do you think will win the Brian Schatz/Colleen Hanabusa race?”..
