This week and Thanksgivings 2014, 2015 and 2016 are President Obama’s last times to pardon turkeys. It’s a meaningless gesture..
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This pre-Thanksgiving column is dedicated to every GI whose combat-zone holiday meal was C-ration ham with lima beans, beef slices..
It would be wrong to label Hawaii police union president Tenari Ma’afala as the village idiot for his anti-same-gender-marriage and..
So why don’t the parking meters on that short Kaheka Street extension between Ala Moana Hotel and the shopping center..
It’s become very clear from the polls (and especially polls of young voters) that the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church..
I was sitting in on a local school’s briefing on programs it hopes to fund for the coming years and..
There are about 290 elephants living in zoo captivity in the U.S. – two of them here. We’ve had nine..
Demonstrations – at government offices or on sidewalks, parks and beaches – are a distinctly Western “right,” either embedded in..
You’ve read that the University of Hawaii needs about $490 million to catch up on backlogged repairs. So it wants..
I’ll be very curious to see how the latest pronouncements on abortion, contraceptives and gay people by Pope Francis play..
The first self-steering, self-braking car is now on the market – in Germany. It’s the Mercedes S-Class at $92,000-$115,000. Drivable..
Do we do more housing or more parks and open space? Do we allocate more wilderness with public access or..
Secrets-leaker Bradley Manning says he’s now a she named Chelsea and wants the military prison to treat him as a..
“We’re putting together volunteers and activists to help continue our important consumer protection work in Hawaii and start a Funeral..
Kauai is going bonkers over that proposed genetically modified organism-pesticide county ordinance. Citizen against citizen. And it’s all unnecessary, because..
There’s much to be learned from the Christopher Deedy murder trial, whether you agree with the eventual outcome or not...
This should have been said or written a long time ago: Our TV news stations must stop scaring the hell..
This whole homeless-in-Hawaii issue is fraught with political and emotional overtones – so much that there really is no compromise..
Can the next University of Hawaii president be a proven CEO without also offering almost-peerless academic credentials? I think a..
I’m pleased to say I’ve had a quick, complete and limited-pain recovery from total knee-replacement surgery. It’s common surgery now,..