Many of us are asking the same question over the dinner table: “Does Ben Cayetano have a real campaign strategy..
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has a brother who does not share her liberal point of view, and annually..
The Hawaiian Islands are slowly crumbling into the sea. The aphanitic igneous rock that created our high islands can’t sustain..
The man had set up with a table and many signs on the downtown Hilo public sidewalk and was giving..
I’m amazed that Filipinos generally march hand-in-hand with America on most diplomatic and military issues. The American-Philippines War of 1899-1902..
The annual Merrie Monarch Hula Festival takes over Hilo this weekend. Hordes of visitors and halau, and they all need..
A dollop of common sense and compromise could solve many of our social conflicts. Alas, those are two rare commodities..
[media-credit id=35 align=”alignleft” width=”300″][/media-credit] I’d never gotten around to reading James Michener’s 1978 novel Chesapeake until now that I’m going..
I do love our farmers markets. I’m just not sure where the love fest will lead. Or how we’ll eventually..
Linda Lingle will be the Hawaii GOP candidate for U.S. senator. Will our mostly Democratic electorate vote for her? In..
Maybe (and only maybe) the state and the city will start coming down on all the unpermitted street, sidewalk and..
Here is how I see this year’s Honolulu mayoral election playing out, at least in the primary, to either outright..
This week’s column is a followup to last week’s about Ward’s Rafters in Kaimuki, a private residence on Maunaloa Avenue,..
I went to Ward’s Rafters recently. It’s at 3810 Maunaloa Ave., a quiet Kaimuki neighborhood. Jackie Ward and her son,..
I very much liked President Obama’s address to Congress. I’m an Obama fan, a middle-to-left voter and a believer that..
How did Hawaii appear to Mainlanders the year before the Pearl Harbor attack? Here are excerpts from a 1940 Forbes..
