House Adds To Leadership Team
The Hawaii House is keeping its top leaders in place while adding a few new members for next legislative session, which starts in January. The majority caucus on Monday reaffirmed Joe Souki as speaker,...
View ArticleWhy Some Schools Face Facility Improvement Issues
The conditions of our public schools are under constant criticism for a lack of maintenance, the need for new buildings and more. The Hawaii State Department of Education is aware of the constant work...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: We Voted For The Honolulu Zoo, Now We Should Visit
Oahu residents have voted to give the Honolulu Zoo a guarantee of steady funding from the city. City Charter Amendment No.9 approved a week ago will help the zoo on its path to regain the national...
View ArticleAmerica: You’re Fired
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View ArticleTerminix, Monsanto Investigated For Pesticide Misuse In Hawaii
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating Monsanto, Terminix and Wonder Farm for allegedly violating pesticide laws in Hawaii. The ongoing investigations are three of five...
View ArticleHawaii Hasn’t Been This Short On Congressional Clout In Awhile
Dan Inouye is dead, Barack Obama is on his way out and Donald Trump will be our next president. Add to that a Republican-controlled House and Senate and things sure don’t look good for Hawaii’s...
View ArticleHawaii State Rep. Clift Tsuji Dies
State Rep. Clift Tsuji died Tuesday at The Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu. The Big Island lawmaker was 75. The family has requested privacy. Services are pending, according to a House news release....
View ArticleHirono: Fire Steve Bannon
Count Mazie Hirono among those calling on President-elect Donald Trump to reject Steve Bannon. The chairman of Breitbart News has been named chief strategist in the White House. Hirono said: Hirono is...
View ArticleCreating A Safer World, One Question At A Time
This was a bad news kind of summer. I finished my report cards, hugged my students, cleaned my classroom. With a sense of accomplishment and a sigh of relief, I walked out the front door. Summer was...
View ArticleHawaii Teacher: Election Shocked Them In The Classroom, Too
I never believed I would be writing another column about Donald Trump. Neither did my students. I asked them to write a one-word reaction to the election when they came to class the day after the...
View ArticleWrongful Death Case Highlights Kealoha’s Legal Entanglements
City attorneys asked a federal judge Tuesday to reject a request for a deposition of Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha in a lawsuit over the police killing of Sheldon Haleck, a military veteran who...
View ArticleHawaii Failed To Take Steps Meant To Prevent Day Care Deaths
In 2013, Hawaii lawmakers introduced a bill to assure that child care programs employed safe sleep practices to prevent infants from suffocating in their cribs or succumbing to sudden infant death...
View Article‘Whitelash’ Existed Long Before Donald Trump
“For the next four years we need to make America smart again!” — Neil deGrasse Tyson, Physicist, Nov. 10, 2016 Because of my Southern experience in seeing injustice on a systematic scale, I became a...
View ArticleHealth Beat: Nice Doctors Aren’t Necessarily Better Doctors
I’ve been under the impression that health care in the United States has dramatically improved over the last few years. Then I read an article in the October edition of The Journal of the American...
View ArticleAmid The Buzz Of Waikiki, 21,000 People Who Call It Home
On a typical day, there are about 72,000 visitors in Waikiki, a stretch of golden beaches, hotels, shops and restaurants. Hawaii’s biggest tourism driver attracts travelers from around the world. But...
View ArticleNative Hawaiians Don’t Know What To Expect From Trump
On election night, John Waihee was on a Hawaiian Airlines red-eye flight from Honolulu to New York City. The former Hawaii governor, who supported fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, did not know who had...
View ArticleHawaii Union Works To Overthrow State House Leaders
If its campaign contributions and endorsements are any indication, Hawaii’s second-biggest public employee union seems intent on pushing for new leadership in the state House. United Public Workers...
View ArticleSenators Decry Internment Talk
A prominent supporter of Donald Trump “set off concern and condemnation” from Muslims Wednesday after citing World War II-era Japanese-American internment camps as a “precedent” for an immigrant...
View ArticleCalvin Say’s Residency Upheld
State Rep. Calvin Say’s legal battles over his residency appear to have been settled. The Hawaii Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously ruled in Hussey v. Say that the state House of Representatives “is...
View ArticleWhy Republicans Always Fail In Hawaii
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, a night in which a Republican was elected to the White House and the GOP retained control of the U.S. House and Senate, the story in Hawaii was Democratic Party dominance across...
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