100,000 Pounds Of Debris Hauled Out Of Papahanaumokuakea
Huge piles of fishing buoys and nets, old footballs and volleyballs, a postal service box with rubber slippers in it, cracked construction helmets, big black tires, broken laundry baskets and even a...
View ArticleGabbard Draws Cordial But Subdued Crowd On Lanai
LANAI CITY, Lanai — Despite heavy rain, about 100 people sloshed through the puddles to the community center in this tiny town for a chance to hear U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has become something of...
View ArticleHow Workers – Not Companies – Bear The Growing Burden Of Government
Tens of millions of Americans will rush to file their income taxes by this year’s deadline of Monday. Although most of us probably identify the federal income tax with the revenue that ultimately fills...
View ArticleHow The Peer Review Report On Rail Helps HART
The recent American Public Transportation Association’s Peer Review Panel Report on Honolulu’s rail transit project will help HART to improve the management of the rail project. HART, at the suggestion...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: Carnival Just One Of The Casualties When Harbor Fees Rise
The Maui County Carnival scheduled for earlier this month was canceled, with organizers blaming skyrocketing state government fees as one reason. In April 2016, E.K. Fernandez Shows brought the...
View ArticleGabbard Focuses On North Korea Amid Questions About Syria
North Korea poses a clear and growing threat to Hawaii, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, home for the April congressional recess, told a fractious town hall meeting in Kailua on Saturday night. Just hours...
View ArticleReader Rep: Why Hawaii Media Need To Better Serve The Visually Impaired
I enjoy reading my print version of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser during breakfast, along with digital news from a variety of sources, including Civil Beat, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Creepy Collaboration That Creates Rat Lungworm
A nasty biological cycle involving infected snails and host rats produces rat lungworm disease, which has raised its profile this year in Hawaii with six confirmed cases on Maui and three on the Big...
View ArticleWhat Your Lawmakers Are Getting Away With
If you’re a legislator in Hawaii, there is a street-smart time to raise taxes. And contrary to what some may think, that isn’t, “anytime, anyplace.” Rather, the politically easiest time to propose a...
View ArticleShould Hawaii Defy Trump On Immigration Enforcement?
Two days before issuing his original, now-rescinded travel ban in January, President Donald Trump unveiled a less-noticed executive order on immigration, vowing to starve “sanctuary jurisdictions” of...
View ArticleThe Fight Over Papahanaumokuakea Just Escalated
Government officials from the United States and three of its territories are working to undermine President Barack Obama’s marine conservation legacy less than four months after he left office. Obama...
View ArticleSchatz Optimistic About Resistance To Trump Agenda In DC
Thanks to Republican missteps and increased civic engagement from Democrats, the more damaging aspects of President Donald Trump’s agenda have been avoided so far, according to U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz....
View ArticleHawaii Police Agencies Struggle To Equip Officers With Body Cameras
Even before Ferguson, Missouri, became a flashpoint in the debate over police accountability, Kauai Police Chief Darryl Perry saw the value of outfitting his officers with body cameras, not only for...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: How Hawaii’s Lei Sellers Helped The War Effort
The Honolulu Museum of Art has opened a small exhibit tucked away in the back of a second floor gallery that brings to life a story of World War II largely forgotten today. “Camouflage Rhythms,”...
View ArticleCampaign Cash Flowing To Hawaii’s Congresswomen
Should U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard choose to run for re-election next year — or for some other federal office — she’s already got $2 million to spend. That’s according to the latest filings with the...
View ArticleLeave Papahanaumokuakea Protections In Place
Believe it or not, there was a time in American history when caring about and protecting the environment was not a deeply partisan issue. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s, as issues like acid rain and...
View ArticleDeal Reached In Dispute Over Waimea River Water Diversion
In what’s being dubbed a “historic” agreement, groups representing cultural, environmental, agricultural and development interests have reached a settlement in a longstanding dispute over the diversion...
View ArticleNew Federal Law Enhances Tsunami Detection Measures
Federal legislation to improve tsunami detection and climate forecasting, long championed by Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii, was signed into law by President Donald Trump on Tuesday. The Weather Research...
View ArticleHomelessness: A Lot Of Talk But No ‘Game-Changer’ At The Legislature
With about two weeks to go in this year’s legislative session, lawmakers have already agreed to put more than $3 million toward homelessness. But while advocates remain optimistic that more money and...
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