In a 1970 campaign speech, then-Lt. Gov. Tom Gill warned that the housing legislation of that era would be “a bonanza for developers” and not “necessarily produce any substantial amount of low-priced housing.” Read more
Mainland corporations are given millions of dollars by Hawaii insurance companies to interfere with decisions made between patients and their doctors, while patients struggle to find a primary care provider and clinics fail. Read more
My heart breaks for Hawaii’s precious and imperiled freshwater resource. We all know that ola i ka wai, water is life, but we are not all living it. Read more
A shift is happening. Recent surveys from the Views of the Electorate Research Survey and the Public Religion Research Institute indicate a growing number of people believe women should return to more traditional gender roles at home, rather than in the workplace. Read more
Elon Musk seems to think that the government can be handled in the same way as a business might be — by a ruthless owner. Read more
Gun violence is not just a crime problem — it is a public health crisis. Read more
Many of us condemned President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which established greenhouse gas reduction targets to protect the planet from the worst of climate change. Read more
Reducing funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) hurts us all: physicians, scientists and patients. Read more
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Hawaii faces a critical choice for its health and economy: Will we continue to let tobacco addiction harm our communities, or will we use the most powerful tool to combat it — price? Read more
As a former social service provider and director of PHOCUSED (Protecting Hawai‘i’s ‘Ohana, Children, Underserved, Elderly, Disabled), a coalition of social service and health providers across the state, I can tell you that funding has never come easy for community-based organizations. Read more
We have a rapidly aging population, and a shortage of younger workers entering health care fields to take care of our increasing number of kupuna. Read more
In Hawaii, more than 1 in every 3 children, and just fewer than 1 in 3 adults, are covered by Medicaid. Read more
We must stop the sale of these flavored nicotine products to protect our keiki. Read more
Midwives provide care to healthy birthing families, where most of the time the pregnancy remains low risk. As with all health professions, however, risk is inherent in maternity care as not all birthing people and newborns remain healthy and well. Read more
People must understand our collective history, to understand how hard many Americans have struggled to expand democracy and racial equality over the past 250 years. Read more
Hawaii is uniquely positioned to lead in space sciences, but we must ensure our students have the skills and knowledge to excel in this fast-evolving field. Read more
The proposed Aloha Stadium entertainment district is in serious trouble. Rising costs, funding uncertainties and shifting priorities threaten to derail the project. Read more
It was 2019 when I called my friends back home in India, all of us struggling to comfort each other in the aftermath of a devastating election. Read more
