Luke Evslin: Don’t Ignore The Latest Version of Kauai’s ‘Bible’
Disclosure: Luke Evslin is a member of the Kauai General Plan Community Advisory Committee. With the cast of a ballot, American democracy has taken another lurching step. No matter how you feel about...
View ArticleWill Residents Ever Feel Safe In This Downtown Honolulu Park?
On the corner of South Beretania Street and the Pali Highway lies a triangular piece of land with pathways between trees, small patches of grass and shrubs and tan, hexagon-shaped concrete planters. It...
View ArticleWho Voted For Donald Trump In Hawaii?
Donald Trump lost badly to Democrat Hillary Clinton in Hawaii, only pulling in 29.4 percent of votes statewide, but he outperformed previous Republican nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney when they...
View ArticleHawaii GMO Seed Companies Win Big In Appeals Court Rulings
Monsanto, Syngenta and other seed companies that farm in Hawaii won a significant victory after a federal appeals court ruled that counties can’t regulate pesticides or genetically modified crops. The...
View ArticleIge Taps New State Comptroller
Hawaii Department of Accounting and General Services Director Douglas Murdock, who serves as the state comptroller, is stepping down today, the governor’s office announced. Gov. David Ige has appointed...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: What The Trump Tax Shake-Up May Mean For Hawaii
The result of the general election earlier this month raises the possibility of a high magnitude shake-up in our federal tax system. There are also bound to be state implications all over the country,...
View ArticleReader Rep: Trump And The Press: Alive And Well In Bizarro World
As a form of post-election therapy, I will now transport you for a moment to Bizarro World, where everything we know is inverted in opposite proportions, on a square planet called htraE (Earth in...
View ArticleHawaii Needs To Act Now On New Day Care Rules
Government, we all know, isn’t the most expeditious or efficient beast. But you’d still think that government agencies could get it together enough to do what the Hawaii Legislature asks them to —...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: It’s Time To Get Real About The Honolulu Zoo
I did a glowing column last week about Honolulu Zoo Director Baird Fleming and his excellent stewardship of the zoo without having a clue that the much admired Fleming was going to quit. I am surprised...
View ArticleThis Kalihi Bike Shop Is Helping Kids Learn Life Lessons
It’s easy to miss the small bike shop at the base of the Kalihi Valley, but there’s a lot going on inside. Bike parts hang from the walls and young people laugh above a radio’s thumping beat....
View ArticleOther States Are Shrinking Prison Populations — Why Not Hawaii?
Hawaii was an outlier. For decades, people accused of stealing property or services worth more than $300 in the islands faced an automatic felony charge and up to five years in prison. In most other...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard Talks With Trump About Syria And Terrorism
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep Tulsi Gabbard on Monday morning joined a long line of job-seekers mobbing President-elect Donald Trump at his headquarters in New York City, but her staff said Friday she’s...
View ArticleWhere Will A New Oahu Community Correctional Center Be Built?
Eleven potential sites for a new Oahu Community Correctional Center were identified Monday by the Hawaii Department of Public Safety. The sites will be “further reviewed against common criteria to...
View ArticleA Game Changer For Kanaka Maoli
With the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, Kānaka Maoli face a vastly altered landscape in our pathway to self-determination and the question of whether or not to accept the...
View ArticleElection Rage Shows Why America Needs A New Social Contract
The recent U.S. election exposed two major intersecting fault lines in America that, if left unchecked, could soon produce an era of social and economic upheaval unlike any in our history. First, it...
View ArticleThe Baby Who Fell Out A Window
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View ArticleHawaii Environmental Leaders Worry About The Trump Years
President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a “hoax” and “bullshit.” On the campaign trail, he pledged to dismantle clean energy plans, pull out of an international agreement to reduce...
View ArticleHawaii House Unveils Lineup Of Committee Chairs
State House leaders on Tuesday identified the chairs and vice chairs of the 17 committees that will shepherd hundreds of bills next legislative session, which starts in January. The committee chairs...
View ArticleFilm Tax Credit Benefitting Hawaii?
Hawaii’s film tax credit may not be helping the state as much as its film office claims, according to a 60-page state audit released Tuesday. State Auditor Les Kondo says his office “cannot confirm...
View ArticlePay Teachers The Bonus They Deserve To Solve Teacher Shortage
Almost 11 years ago, my then-boyfriend and I were hired to teach on Kauai, where he was born and raised. We were in our mid-20s, fresh out of grad school, ready for adventure, ready to feel real and...
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