Editorial: Job cuts, anti-vax bent risking lives
This elimination of services, funding and manpower supporting health initiatives in Hawaii will leave islanders more vulnerable to illness and less able to access care. Read more
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Editorial: Pass bills to fund ecological action
Gov. Josh Green has asked the state Legislature to approve three methods to fund state action to address environmental stressors that include overtourism, global warming and rising seas. Read more
Editorial: Pass bill to keep nonprofits afloat
The squeeze, unfortunately, is getting painfully tight. Amid today’s federal-agency upheavals, indiscriminate cutbacks and job losses, nonprofits are seeing demand rise for their social services and lifelines — even as their own supplies of support are being reduced. Read more
Editorial: Pandemic lessons linger over isles
Five years ago this month, life in Hawaii completely changed in response to the deadly, worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
Editorial: Gird for change in education funding
As in nearly every aspect of President Donald Trump’s remaking of federal government operations, the announced dismantling of much of the U.S. Department of Education has thrown Hawaii’s own public schools system into a world of worry. Read more
Editorial: Poor timing for a state official raise
State officials are in for a healthy raise over the next six years after a state Commission on Salaries’ recommendation to boost pay for legislators, judges and department executives unanimously passed on March 13. Read more
Editorial: Maui on mend, but aid needed
Thousands remain in “temporary” living arrangements. An outsized number are still looking for work, with an unemployment rate a dismal 8% for fire-affected people. Read more
Editorial: Mayor touts gains, but more to do
Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi delivered his fifth State of the City address Tuesday with an emphasis on “wicked problems” that have long been painfully familiar to residents of Oahu — housing, homelessness and crime, as well as an outdated and cumbersome bureaucracy. Read more
Editorial: War on DEI erodes America’s identity
It’s not mere appreciation of history that reveals the dark side of the current DEI purge; the campaign has real-time consequences within today’s Armed Forces. Read more
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Editorial: Home ‘defects’ put hurt on owners
Editorial: Hawaiian culture faces new threat
Editorial: Tap new city fund for cesspool help
Now banned in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, cesspools are typically pits dug to process raw human waste and sewage. Read more
Editorial: EPA’s cuts weaken Hawaii’s safeguards
The federal administration is in the midst of a rapidly launched, blunt-force effort to hack back spending and staffing at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Read more
Editorial: VA confusion does veterans disservice
Around 130,000 veterans live in Hawaii, and many of them work at the VA. So concern is widespread over plans to eliminate 72,000 VA jobs nationwide, in addition to those already gone. Read more
Editorial: Keiki abuse, death must be stopped
Outrage that Hawaii’s keiki are being so monstrously beaten or starved to death — behind closed doors, but in our midst — must drive prevention. Read more
Editorial: Homes, rail, labor, safety top city priorities
Editorial: Plan for effects of Medicaid cuts
Nobody knows for sure how budget cuts from Capitol Hill will land in Hawaii and other states. Read more
Editorial: Rail riders deserve better from city
Construction of Oahu’s rail system has been fraught, to say the least. Running billions of dollars over budget, late and two stations short of original plans, Skyline has endured public pushback to the point that its mere existence is often used as a political cudgel. But on it rolls. Read more
Editorial: Rally for legislative bills on green fee, ag aid
Advancing bills crossed over from one side of the Legislature to the other on Thursday, reducing the number of bills alive from over 3,000 to under 800. Read more
Editorial: Stress necessity of keiki vaccinations
A bill to restrict “non-medical,” i.e., religious, exemptions from Hawaii’s vaccine mandates has properly been put on ice in the state House, due to constitutional concerns. Read more
Editorial: Trump settles in as great disruptor
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. Read more
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