Kakaako Food Pantry To Close — At Least For Now
One of the largest food pantries on Oahu is preparing to close next month if a new location is not found. Feeding Hawaii Together’s building on Keawe Street was sold, so occupants need to be out by the...
View ArticleNeal Milner: Trump Got The Last Laugh On Political Comedians
Political humor during the presidential campaign was repetitive and monotonous — well within a comfort zone. Comedy was not at all dissident or subversive. This made sense because the comics were...
View ArticleWhy Keith Kaneshiro Is Standing Behind Katherine Kealoha
On June 1, Honolulu city prosecutor Katherine Kealoha found herself in an unfamiliar position. As head of her office’s career criminal division, she leads a team that is tasked with going after repeat...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: City Officials Didn’t Tell Voters Zoo Director Had Quit
Honolulu Zoo director Baird Fleming informed Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the city’s managing director Oct. 31 that he had accepted a position at a zoo on the mainland. This was eight days before voters...
View ArticleHonolulu Tops For Mortgage Debt
Yet one more indicator of just how expensive it is to live in Honolulu. A LawnStarter analysis (it’s a company concerned about, well, lawns) of recent Census data shows “nearly 23 percent of mortgaged...
View ArticleSeeds Of The Alt-Right, America’s Right-Wing Populist Movement
In recent months, far-right activists – which some have labeled the “alt-right” – have gone from being an obscure, largely online subculture to a player at the very center of American politics. Long...
View ArticleReader Rep: Watch What You Say Or Face The Obvious Consequences
A couple of Reader Rep commenters went low last week, with another ugly display of uncivil discourse allowed by the flimsy fences of online news management systems. I have argued in the past that...
View ArticleHoping For A Queen Theater Comeback In Kaimuki
The Queen Theater’s neon marquee has been dark for years, its double doors shuttered. Some people would love to see the venerable Kaimuki venue reopen for live shows or classes and have even formed a...
View ArticleWill Trump Be Able To Undo Papahanaumokuakea?
In the months leading up to the Nov. 8 election, President Barack Obama signed a series of proclamations to dramatically increase the amount of land and water that is federally protected from...
View ArticleHawaii People’s Congress To Meet
The Hawaii People’s Congress is seeking public input this weekend as it holds its first statewide conference. Organizers of the congress, a newly formed a coalition of organizations and individuals...
View ArticleCouncilwoman Wants To Stop Manoa Flooding Before It Returns
It’s been more than a decade since a storm caused the Manoa Stream to overflow, spilling water down the valley and flooding the surrounding neighborhood, University of Hawaii campus and Noelani...
View ArticleFormer Big Island Prison Warden Sues State Over Firing
The former warden of the Big Island’s minimum-security prison has filed a lawsuit alleging that she was wrongfully fired from her job. Ruth Forbes, who was appointed as warden of the Kulani...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Neighbors Say No To Doris Duke Swimming Hole Changes
Some Diamond Head residents are urging the foundation operating the former Doris Duke home, now the Shangri La Center for Islamic Arts and Culture, to back away from its $2.5 million plan to dismantle...
View ArticleServices For The Needy Generate Hope, Complaints In Chinatown
On a sun-drenched afternoon in Honolulu’s Chinatown, Wai Ching sits in the doorway of his empty char siu restaurant reading a Cantonese-language newspaper. A man named Happy Iakio approaches him to ask...
View ArticleStanding Against Discrimination
Hawaii Civil Rights Commission Chair Linda Hamilton Krieger on Tuesday called on island residents to stand against the reported rise in incidences of “discriminatory” harassment and intimidation....
View ArticleGabbard To Join Veterans In Protest Of North Dakota Oil Pipeline
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is expected to join as many as 2,000 veterans from across the country at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to protest an oil pipeline that tribal...
View ArticleHawaii Senate Reveals Committee Chairs For Next Session
Hawaii Senate leaders Tuesday unveiled the chairs and vice chairs of the 15 committees that will shape what bills become laws next session, which starts in January. Committee chairs are key players in...
View ArticleThe Hawaii People’s Congress: Building a Progressive Movement
Hawaii may not be ripe for a progressive people’s movement. There may be too many people who occupy the higher rungs of the local economic ladder that are content with a status quo that guarantees...
View ArticleLuke Evslin: Now The Climate Change Battle Belongs To All Of Us
I finally began allowing myself to feel optimistic about climate change. There was Hawaii’s commitment to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2045, and Kauai’s success in leading the charge with...
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