I’m teaching late 19th-century U.S. history this semester, and I’m here to tell you, beloved reader, it’s a hard sell...
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Just about everyone at the Square Building on South Beretania is either trying to get re-elected, raising campaign funds, making..
The 1909 film Country Doctor was a tear-jerker in which a small-town American physician was torn between staying bedside with..
A group of legislators is proposing that a study is needed to determine if our farmers should be allowed to..
On presidential election night 2012, Mitt Romney related a comment made by one of his teary-eyed supporters: “When you think..
Swaziland is Africa’s only remaining kingdom. Drifting like a tiny autonomous island in the northeastern corner of South Africa, it..
Amy Harmon writes about the impact of science and technology on American life for The New York Times, perhaps the..
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..
Gregg Takayama seems both too old and too traveled to be a freshman state legislator. Yet there he was last..
Oh, good, state lawmakers are back in session and they promise to be there for at least four months. After..
I was a juror last October for Hawaii International Film Festival’s European entries: three great films and eight pieces of..
Several years ago, when my 83-year-old mom was visiting us, we were in our kitchen – wife Susan was at..
What do you do with an $844 million state budget surplus? You read that right: $844 million. That is, even..
Our state prisons are overcrowded, lack adequate mental health treatment and cost us too much. But Hawaii voters and law-makers..
I write on New Year’s Eve with less than 48 hours remaining in the holiday season. Thank all the gods..
Ah, the new year is upon us: full of hope, full of cheer, full of … foreboding. Which will it..
It’s that time of the year when most of us want to sweep out the old and invite in the..
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,..
