Hawaii Needs This Three-Step Plan To Fight Opioid Addiction
An epidemic is sweeping the mainland United States. Since 1999, the sale of prescription opioids has quadrupled around the country. So has the number of deaths from various types of opioids including...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Hawaii Children’s Decaying Teeth Are A Disgrace
It is a crying shame. A new survey shows that Hawaii’s children have the highest prevalence of tooth decay in the nation. This doesn’t surprise me. I grew up in Honolulu, where despite having parents...
View ArticleDo Officials Really Want To Know What Kalihi Residents Think?
When Kalihi resident Ashley Galacgac sat down at the recent Kapalama Canal Improvement Plan meeting, she was glad to find a teacher from nearby Kapalama Elementary School next to her. But everyone else...
View ArticleHow Hawaii Companies Pay To Party It Up With Public Officials
There were the meals, golf, drinks, parties and an event described as a “casino and karaoke night.” And then there were the prizes, including Apple Watches and a two-night stay at a luxury resort. It...
View ArticlePanel: Changes In Honolulu Media
If you’re not busy Wednesday around lunchtime, a good investment of your time would be to attend a talk on Honolulu’s changing media landscape. It’s at the East-West Center from noon to 1 p.m. Here’s...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Mentions Gabbard
The latest batch of WikiLeaks references Hawaii’s own Tulsi Gabbard. The Hawaii representative, a Democrat, received “a condescending email” in February from Darnell Strom, identified in a news report...
View ArticleHawaii May Finally Get An Accurate Count Of Its Bottomfish
State and federal fishery officials have struggled for decades to determine how many deep-sea bottomfish like onaga and opakapaka are in Hawaiian waters, basing stock assessments on the amount of...
View ArticleMillennials Do Care
Editor’s Note: Lexi Heaton is a student in Dawn Morais Webster’s honors class at the University of Hawaii. This is one of a series of student essays from that class about voting and issues that bring...
View ArticleDoes Clean Transportation Need A Jump Start?
Editor’s note: This is the first of three parts by Blue Planet Foundation on Hawaii’s clean energy progress. We drive over 30 million miles every day in Hawaii. That’s equivalent to 63 roundtrips to...
View ArticleWhat If Nature Had The Rights And Protections Of A Person?
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has solidified the concept of corporate personhood. Following rulings in such cases as Hobby Lobby and Citizens United, U.S. law has established that companies...
View ArticleCartoonist Vs. The Rail
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View ArticleCivil Beat Draws On Local Talent To Bring Back Cartooning
When Civil Beat heard about a talented young cartoonist with an interest in public affairs and politics, it seemed like a chance to offer our readers another way to look at the news. This week we...
View ArticleReport: Vets Faring Better In Hawaii, But There’s Work To Do
Hawaii’s veterans are receiving health care more promptly than in the past, but the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs continues to struggle to hire and retain enough medical staff to meet the...
View ArticleHonolulu 2nd ‘Greenest’ City
Did you know that October is National Energy Awareness Month? Me neither. But 74 percent of Americans today support efforts to protect the environment. So says personal-finance website WalletHub, which...
View ArticleDjou, Caldwell Make Pitches To Native Hawaiian Audience
The two candidates for mayor of Honolulu made their appeals Wednesday to an influential organization representing the state’s indigenous people. The Council on Native Hawaiian Advancement welcomed...
View ArticleMillennials Can Change The World With Their Vote
The two most popular reasons as to why our generation doesn’t seem to be going to the polls as much as Baby Boomers and Generation X is that there’s doubt that the millennial population will make an...
View ArticleEfficiency Is The True Bridge To Clean Energy
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three parts by Blue Planet Foundation on Hawaii’s clean energy progress. In this second of three parts introducing Blue Planet’s 2016 Energy Report Card, which...
View ArticleNeal Milner: Honolulu — Beauty And The Beastly Noise
How does a city like Honolulu balance its natural beauty with the tumult of urban life? How do we best live with this unsettling but inherent mixture of beauty and the beast? Laws are one way, but...
View ArticleState May Reject Call For Reform After Report Of Fishing Abuses
Hawaii officials are recommending rejection of a petition to require additional information of applicants for commercial marine licenses. Five people submitted the petition after the Associated Press...
View ArticleHawaii Finds Itself Stuck As Others Abandon For-Profit Prisons
In her first debate with Donald Trump last month, Hillary Clinton broached a subject that’s rarely brought up during presidential elections: for-profit prisons. “I’m glad that we’re ending private...
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