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What initiatives are you most excited to tackle in 2025?
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If you, as a parent, left your child shut in a car baking in the sun, the child could become painfully uncomfortable and risk developing a dangerous fever severe enough to cause brain damage, organ failure or even death.
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Our local politicians need to read the article in the editorial section of Wednesday’s Star-Advertiser (“Tariffs open door to new isle economies,” Island Voices, March 5). I
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We’ve read the Star-Advertiser’s headlines. The price of paradise is increasing, people are moving away and there’s a somber outlook for the state economy.
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What a travesty. After all the hard work the late Congresswoman Patsy Mink did to get Title IX passed into law, we now have two senators representing Hawaii who set back female sports by voting to filibuster the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
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I am a retired manager of the Maui Social Security office with 31 years of service.
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing everything to help our government, but the deeper it digs, the more enemies it has. DOGE is willing to handle the weight of what it is trying to do.
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A reader writes that “our duty as American citizens is to support and pray for [Donald Trump]” (“Stop USAID bleeding before helping others,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, March 2).
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- By Caroline L. Mackenzie
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The Peace Corps, billed as “the toughest job you’ll ever love,” has promoted world peace and friendship for 64 years. The first week of March honors the founding of the Peace Corps and Peace Corps volunteers’ contributions to meaningful changes around the world.
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- By Robert H. Pahia, Sergio J. Alcubilla III and Laura Acasio
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The essence of democracy lies in self-governance. Article 1, Section 1 of the Hawaii State Constitution states, “All political power of this State is inherent in the people and the responsibility for the exercise thereof rests with the people.”
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Gov. Josh Green will need all his political skill to thread the fiscal needle between the needs of blue-state Hawaii and the cutbacks underway by the Trump administration.
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Spurred by federal actions undertaken since President Donald Trump took office, a fledgling grassroots group calling itself 50501 — “50 protests.
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In tone, substance and consequence, Tuesday’s presidential speech before a joint session of Congress was like no other — more an amplified campaign rally than a unifying attempt at nonpartisan statesmanship.
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I believe House Bill 697, which proposes using red light traffic camera systems to also monitor and ticket cars who speed through select intersections, is flawed.
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As officials ponder what type of pedestrian bridge to install over the Ala Wai Canal, do these decision-makers ever consider costs to maintain structures that they select?
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I have lived in Hawaii all of my adult life and have long heard the term “affordable housing” thrown about. I wonder when that will begin.
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Gun laws, including background checks and “red flag” requirements, have become a seemingly intractable and unresolvable political issue facing our nation.
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I’m from the boomer generation that grew out of dependency. We relied on our family, friends, educators, employers and the government.
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