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It’s always a reason for celebrating when any new affordable housing units are added to Oahu’s lagging inventory. Saturday’s blessing ceremony marking the completion of 40 units in Chinatown’s historic Hocking Building, rents starting at $731, was one such occasion. Read more
Is Ala Pono a bridge too far? That is at the center of a debate, underway for three years, about the planned pedestrian bridge over the Ala Wai Canal, crossing at the start of University Avenue. Read more
Stephen Kane‘a‘i Morse has died at age 78, leaving a changed Hawaii as his legacy. He was most well known as part of the “Kaho‘olawe Nine,” a group that made a 1976 small-boat run to Kahoolawe, protesting 35 years of bombing by the U.S. Navy. Read more
The current health policy fad is “value-based payment” — blaming high health care cost on fee-for-service and overutilization of care and instead, offering upfront payment per member, or capitation, as an incentive to reduce utilization and control costs. Read more
If studies are increasingly showing that a nutritional, balanced meal is an important factor in a student’s ability to learn and focus in school, why are Hawaii public school students still eating their lunches out of cans? Read more
It’s interesting that the owner of the old Queen Theater in Kaimuki now has plans to renovate the theater after 40 years in response to a City Council resolution for the city to pursue an eminent domain action and take over ownership. Read more
Those who discount the verifiable fact that human activity is causing our Earth to warm often accuse others of being hypocrites if they drive or fly, if they eat meat, if they have children or if they consume nonrenewable resources. Read more
My wife and I rented a condo at the Ilikai a few weeks ago to celebrate her successful fight against throat cancer. Read more
The current nominees for the president-elect’s Cabinet appear to require only one quality. Read more
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These highway speed humps hamper first responders from getting to their destinations. Did any of our politicians think of that? How much does each one cost? Read more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has once again extended aid to Maui residents impacted by the August 2023 West Maui fire disaster. Read more
With the 2025 legislative session just around the corner, a vibrant proposed addition to school lunch trays is soon within reach. Read more
A proposed sewer fee increase currently under Honolulu City Council review could see resident and commercial customers shell out more than 124% above what they pay now. Read more
In a promising boost to transit-oriented development (TOD) planning for the Iwilei-Kapalama area, the city has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Federal Transit Administration, part of a 2024 competitive pilot program funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Read more
Imagine a teenager smoking a pack of Marlboro Lights — not likely. What about a strawberry-and-kiwi-flavored vape with a pink-and-green body? Much easier, right? Read more
I’m tired of all the right-wing conservatives and Republicans trolling the liberals and Democrats after Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Read more
It seems there is one political party in America on the wrong side, morally and absolutely, of most every issue these days. Read more
My wife and I were born and raised on Oahu. We built our home in 1983 and struggled to raise our children before moving to the mainland for better wages and a lower cost of living. Read more
The survival of the United States as “the land of the free and the home of the brave” is at risk of becoming a fleeting memory, for the constitutional representative democracy experiment is threatened by the propaganda of the socialist left. Read more
Something weird is going on with the president-elect. He is putting forth some marginally sane nominees for government positions and some who have no chance at being confirmed. Read more
Any intelligent person who pays attention to objective media must surely recognize the reality of climate change with regular coverage of the unprecedented increase in the frequency, intensity and scale of extreme weather events. Read more
