I had breakfast last week with Ralph Portmore, professional planner, two-time president of the Hawaii chapter of American Planning Association,..
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It’s all about the gun. Really, it’s always been all about the gun. And the evidence piles up across the..
David Ige wants to be Hawaii’s next governor. He wants to defeat the spectacularly well-known and extraordinarily well-financed incumbent Neil..
I began driving down Fort Weaver Road to my in-laws’ house in 1969. Green fields of sugarcane lined the two-lane..
A week ago Monday, the front-page headline on the Honolulu Star-Advertiser read: “Chains of poverty shackle more keiki.” In the..
City Council Budget Committee chairwoman Ann Kobayashi celebrated her 76th birthday in April. She’s spent more than 23 years in..
City Council Budget Committee chairwoman Ann Kobayashi celebrated her 76th birthday in April. She’s spent more than 23 years in..
Young Edward Snowden, recently of Waipahu, sees himself as an American patriot. So too do many of his fellow citizens..
Forty years ago a Canadian scholar named Marshall McLuhan assured us that the medium was the message. He argued that,..
Joe Souki celebrated his 81st birthday recently. He looks good and he sounds good. And he can obviously still do..
No doubt about it, things are looking up, in part because Hawaii’s unemployment rate is going down. In April it..
Presidential election year 2016 officially began last week. Oh, I know, it really began Nov. 7, 2012, but I mean..
M.R.C. Greenwood called it quits last week after four years as the University of Hawaii’s first female president. The 70-year-old..
The world turns. The biopic about Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson’s partnership in integrating major league baseball, 42, will win..
Herewith, “Mostly Politics'” first post-2012 winners and losers column – occasioned by last week’s news that Colleen Hanabusa has decided..
Finishing a marathon calls for jubilation – hugs from spouses and friends, cold libations, smiles exchanged with fellow finishers all..
In 1961, Harcourt, Brace and World published Hawaii Pono: A Social History by Lawrence H. Fuchs. “One of the major..
Three years ago, Catholic Charities Hawaii (CCH) moved into a seven-building campus on two-and-half acres of land in Makiki. It..
Finding signs of life in Hawaii’s Republican Party can be frustrating – almost as frustrating as being a Republican in..
Honolulu City Councilman Stanley Chang thinks that after years of talking about it, studying it and anguishing over it, we..
