Opinion

April 22, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

In a briefing this month, legislators focused on requirements to ensure that children receiving homeschooling have at least one annual, face-to-face meeting with public school educators, who a...

April 21, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) is at a crossroads, with its future in the hands of the state Legislature — a body that has progressively lost confidence in the agency’s executi...

April 18, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Developing geothermal energy became a state priority in January, when Gov. Josh Green issued an executive order aimed at speeding up Hawaii’s transition to renewable sources. Two bills s...

April 19, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

In December 2021, public outrage over the Navy’s contamination of a major aquifer spewed as vehemently as the jet fuel that gushed out of the Red Hill bulk storage facility. The Navy abr...

April 17, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawaii’s brain drain has accelerated from eroding the edges of island life to striking at its heart, pushing would-be health professionals, high-tec...

April 16, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Kudos to Indivisible and the 50501 movement for organizing the “Hands Off” protest actions of April 5.

April 15, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Legislation to set up a “Government Employee Housing Revolving Fund Program,” along with dedicated taxpayer money to fill it, is a bad idea for one major reason: The state has no b...

April 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The religious exemption from Hawaii law requiring children who attend a childcare facility or preschool, public or private school to be immunized against measles has been suspended — eff...

April 12, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

For the general public, including many who have little presence in the stock market, last week’s financial earthquake on Wall Street produced some queasiness, if not full-scale anxiety....

April 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A bill wending its way through the Legislature seeks to improve birth outcomes, both for mothers and newborns, by establishing tighter, more succinct and permanent midwifery regulations and st...

April 10, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Maui County has enough information available to move forward with a phaseout of short-term rentals in residentially zoned areas between Kihei and Kapalua — including pre-disaster Lahaina...

April 9, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

“Gary, you broke my heart! That was cruel!”

April 8, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The Hawaii Tourism Authority in recent years has been on a rocky road, incurring the mounting ire of state legislators — but never quite as precariously as today. Two resignations involv...

April 7, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Great responsibility is foisted upon the state Department of Education (DOE), an entity imbued with powers and means to shape Hawaii’s children into contributing members of society. No s...

April 5, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The U.S. Bill of Rights starts with the First Amendment, and there is a reason why it’s first. Safeguarding rights such as freedom of speech and of the press is crucial to the values tha...

April 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Announcements of draconian cuts to the federal workforce, accompanied by the elimination of entire federal agencies, offices and programs, are being issued so repeatedly from the Trump adminis...