Off the news: FEMA extends Maui monetary, housing aid
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has once again extended aid to Maui residents impacted by the August 2023 West Maui fire disaster. Read more
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Column: Hawaii students leading way to plant-based diet
With the 2025 legislative session just around the corner, a vibrant proposed addition to school lunch trays is soon within reach. Read more
Editorial: More outreach on sewer fee increase
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
Off the news: $2M TOD grant to benefit Iwilei-Kapalama
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
Letter: Stop pushing tobacco products on Hawaii youth
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
Letter: Right-wing hate not a good look for America
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
Letter: GOP leanings presage harsh future for America
It seems there is one political party in America on the wrong side, morally and absolutely, of most every issue these days. Read more
Letter: ‘Empty homes tax’ plan an undue punishment
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
Letter: America threatened by liberal wokeness, hatred
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
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Letter: Trump Cabinet picks hint at lessons learned
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
Letter: Climate-change deniers put entire world in peril
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
Editorial: Take Navy to task over fuel disaster
The ugly reality of Red Hill has risen to the surface once again, and it’s much worse than previously divulged. Read more
Column: Red Hill medical data must see release
The Department of Defense’s inspector general (IG) report released last week provides another disheartening blow to families sickened during the 2021 fuel leak as we learned the Navy missed not one, but four opportunities to warn us. Read more
Column: Mind local values amid Trump policies
Our recent presidential election made the majority of us in Hawaii realize the unthinkable can happen. Read more
Letter: Thanks to Benioffs for school support
I would like to offer my thanks to Lynne and Marc Benioff for directly supporting Hawaii’s public school students. Read more
Letter: Set state apart with fireworks, gambling
Hawaii needs to encourage more money-making, innovative ideas to lower our increasing high cost of living and improve our declining quality of life. Read more
Letter: Come together to fight beach erosion
I would like to see the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program work with Save Our Surf and include our neighbors with beachfront homes. Read more
Letter: Dems don’t cater to majority of America
I find it laughable that the elites in Hawaii believe they have the right to lecture those of us who exercised our rights to vote for President-elect Donald Trump. Read more
Letter: Harris no match for U.S. racism, sexism
I’ll give Donald Trump credit for one thing and that is being the greatest con artist of all time. Read more
Column: E ho‘i nā kama Hawai‘i i kahakai
Synopsis: In our small archipelago, many of us thrive in the ocean that surrounds us. Read more
Letter: It’s true, Hawaii drivers really are the worst
A recent paper had an article that said Hawaii has the worst drivers in the nation. It left a couple of reasons out on how we got that honor. Read more
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