Column: Invest in Hawaii’s families with state budget surplus

• By Deborah Zysman
• Today
• Last updated 12:42 a.m.
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By investing in child care, paid leave and other critical economic supports, we can create a brighter future for our keiki, families, communities — and ourselves. Read more

Letter: Siting landfill above an aquifer is clear problem

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• Last updated 12:05 a.m.
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The problem with the new site is obvious. Read more

Letter: U.S. government upheaval threatens new Dark Age

• Today
• Last updated 12:05 a.m.
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Corporate billionaires are drooling over the spoils they expect to gain. Read more

Letter: Stop the fearmongering, switch on nuclear power

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• Last updated 12:05 a.m.
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One nuclear plant supplying all of Oahu could be built long before Hawaii’s unlikely 2045 goal of 100% renewable power even comes close. Read more

Letter: Go woke and open eyes to victimization, injustice

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• Last updated 12:05 a.m.
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Members of the LGBTQ community are often victims of social injustice. Read more

Letter: Biden tries to pull fast one on American public

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• Last updated 12:05 a.m.
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The Biden administration is planning to rush the last of over $6 billion remaining in Ukraine security assistance out the door by Inauguration Day. Read more

Column: DA BUX nutritious for isle food network

• Dec. 18, 2024

Off the news: Ban on pakuikui fishing remains, for now

• Dec. 18, 2024

Editorial: Affordable housing for Kona hospital

• Dec. 18, 2024
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West Hawaii is a growing area, with a population expected to increase 11% in the next 10 years. As such, it is plainly in line for an expansion of health-care capacity that a new hospital could provide. Read more

Off the news: Maui lands on landfill for Lahaina debris

• Dec. 18, 2024

Letter: Isle exodus is existential threat to all Hawaiians

• Dec. 18, 2024
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More than half of Hawaiians now live outside Hawaii. This reality raises an urgent question: What happens to a lahui oiwi (ethnic group) when its people are disconnected from their ancestral home? Read more

Letter: ‘Dead language’ remark offensive, discriminatory

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Such a statement is discriminatory and reflects the colonialism of Hawaii’s history — that white America prevails with assimilation and land dispossession. Read more

Letter: Bill of Rights still strong more than 230 years on

• Dec. 18, 2024
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In a historic radio address on Dec. 15, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated, “No date in the long history of freedom means more to liberty-loving men in all liberty-loving countries than the 15th day of December 1791. Read more

Letter: Don’t knock vaccines, one likely saved your life

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Please, people. Vaccines for polio, measles, COVID and other infectious diseases have saved many, many lives. Read more

Letter: Trump reign could spell disaster for democracy

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Well done, America. In an electoral choice between democracy and freedom and anger, fear and hate, you chose the latter. Read more

Letter: Fixing economy is easy, just roll back Biden snafu

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Fixing the economy and inflation is simple and easy. Read more

Off the news: UH initiative forwards cancer treatment

• Dec. 17, 2024

Hawaii’s distance from cutting-edge cancer treatment and clinical trials means many patients, already enduring a difficult diagnosis, must seek treatment away from family in the islands. Read more

Editorial: First DHHL high-rise must not be last

• Dec. 17, 2024
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It’s been nearly 30 years since the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) acquired the property where the Stadium Bowl-o-Drome once stood. Read more