Should Union Members Be Able To Disobey Law’s Smoking Ban?
After winning a judgment from the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, a public employees union says its members shouldn’t have to follow a recently enacted state law that prohibits smoking at 12 medical...
View ArticleFisheries Commission Takes Steps To Keep Observers Safer
NADI, Fiji — A lot was said over the past five days in the conference rooms and hallways of the Sheraton Fiji Resort, during kokoda lunches poolside and lobster dinners at the nearby marina. But all...
View ArticleThe Projector: Five Days At Standing Rock
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View ArticleGabbard: Don’t Fund Terrorists
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the Democrat from Hawaii, this week introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act today. The legislation, her office said, “would prohibit the U.S. government from using American...
View ArticleSenators: Protect Entitlements
U.S. Sens. Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono, Democrats of Hawaii, are among a group of their colleagues who have called on President-elect Donald Trump to protect Medicare and Medicaid and not cut it, “as...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About Rape While We’re Still In High School
We arrive at English class and sit in a circle around the room. Everyone pulls out their book. In the past week, we had begun reading the fictional story of a woman who was drugged and raped in the...
View ArticlePod Squad: From Hawaii To Standing Rock And Back
A dramatic change in the weather was only one of the concerns for two Hawaii journalists who traveled to the frozen prairies of North Dakota to cover the islands’ connections to the Dakota Access...
View ArticleReader Rep: The #Pizzagate Case And Our Media-Literacy Crisis
Edgar Welch certainly deserved some sort of Darwin Award for storming into the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, with an assault rifle, eager to free Hillary Clinton’s den of...
View ArticleUnion Joins Effort To Let More People See School Board Meetings
A former teacher and the teachers union are teaming up to ensure that Hawaii Board of Education meetings will continue to be videotaped for those who cannot attend. For the past year and a half, former...
View ArticleCan These Islands Survive America’s Military Pivot To Asia?
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — Tom Pangelinan pushes his way through the tall swordgrass and scraggly trees. There’s no path to get to the rusted fuel tank that towers over him. Bright green vines...
View ArticleUN Declares ‘World Tuna Day’
Fear not, skipjack. Swim confidently, bigeye. Live long and prosper, Atlantic bluefin. The United Nations General Assembly has voted unanimously that every May 2 will be “World Tuna Day.” “The ocean is...
View ArticleTulsi Gabbard For President?
It’s not the first time someone has bandied about the idea that Hawaii’s Tulsi Gabbard is heading for higher office, including the one in the Oval. The latest comes from New Yorker contributor Amy...
View ArticleWhy Trump Won — The Reasons Might Surprise You
The voters of America have just elected as their president the least conventionally qualified candidate in the nation’s history. While it is true that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, she did not...
View ArticleLandmark Legislation A Victory For High Seas Fisheries Management
On the high seas, our nation has all hands on deck. Congress just passed landmark legislation giving the U.S. a formal role in international organizations that govern vastly important areas of the...
View ArticleYesterday’s Tomorrow: It Cost How Much?
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View ArticleCaldwell Outspent Djou Nearly 4-to-1 In Honolulu Mayor’s Race
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell defeated challenger Charles Djou 51 percent to 47 percent Nov. 8 — a solid win but no runaway. When it came to raising and spending campaign cash during the 2016 election,...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Can State Clear Homeless From Diamond Head?
The state is planning to evict homeless campers from more than 40 tent and tarp encampments on the slopes of the Diamond Head State Monument. Nearby residents have urged the state to take action...
View ArticleFDM: This Island Has Been Military Target Practice For Decades
Farallon de Medinilla is a tiny uninhabited island north of Guam in the Western Pacific, less than 2 miles long and a half a mile wide. The U.S. military has been using it for target practice for 45...
View ArticleThe Fight To Save Pagan Island From US Bombs
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — For Sowmangeyong Daniel Kaipat, the question wasn’t whether to enlist in the military after high school. It was what branch of the service to join. “If you think...
View ArticleHawaii By The Numbers
Here are a few tidbits about Hawaii gleaned from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey, based on a four-year period dating to 2011. • Most of the 1.4 million people living in Hawaii...
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