I woke up one recent morning with a nagging question banging around in my head. Why isn’t the civilized world..

Homeownership in Hawaii continues to stagnate at less than 60 percent. Affordability eludes us and contributes to our growing homelessness...

Most any travel you do has some danger attached: car crashes, a bad fall, stomach illness, an airplane crash. Or..

Why is there so much resistance to sensible Social Security reform, federal tax reforms and some gambling for Hawaii? Social..

The bluster, blather and pandemonium about Common Core teaching and testing in public schools everywhere but Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Alaska,..

My daughter Brett Jones, a State Department foreign service officer, worked out of the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu until last..

There are eight states, including ours, where people who have to be rescued because they made poor hiking, boating or..

A triple-header for MidWeek readers this week. The lawmaker-residency issue, corporate Hawaiian Electric and our growing dislike of air travel...

HILO — I’m no seer who can divine the political and cultural will of the Big Island’s very diverse population..

HILO — It’s Merrie Monarch Festival week and I’m there. Scored an affordable rental car and a Hilo Seaside hotel..

It ain’t easy being both pro-union and pro-right-to-work law, but I manage. The key is being for the right of..

My MidWeekcolleague Dan Boylan hit it smack dab on the kini popo when he recently wrote this: “The island of..

Mayor Kirk Caldwell says he loves our parks. He’s spending $1.5 million of our money just for a consultancy on..

Should we laugh at this? Some Chinese generals asked a U.S. Defense Department consultant, “How would the Pentagon like it..

Sorry, but I’m uncomfortable with the proposed new University of Hawaii policy on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and..

Governors and other public officials who must deal periodically with a press-conference reporter pack tend to fall into two categories...

I can’t quite get my mind around all that sniping about the movie American Sniper, up for best picture/best actor..

I whooped with unrestrained joy when Obamacare passed in the Congress and was declared OK by the Supreme Court. It..

Why am I getting nervous and uneasy about Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the rookie Democrat representative from Hawaii? It’s not just..

This is the week the Army hosts some “listening to you” sessions about the future of the military presence in..