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Last week’s unanimous decision by the state’s high court has further complicated the already murky future of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a project that, while still offering great potential benefits to the state and to science internationally, will undoubtedly remain a flash point among those contesting its cultural and environmental impacts. Read more
Based on intrinsic connections to their lands and waters, Native Hawaiians developed highly advanced ahupuaa stewardship practices around the flow of freshwater that maintained healthy habitats from mauka to makai. Read more
The One ‘Ohana Fund, providing money for victims of the Maui wildfires in lieu of personal-injury litigation, remains open to new registrations until June 15 for families who lost a loved one, or people who suffered serious injury. Read more
A bill introduced two years ago to restrict gifts to city employees never climbed high enough on the Honolulu City Council’s priority list to pass before it expired — so now Bill 23 has been introduced, again proposing tightened rules on gift-giving. Read more
In response to David Shapiro’s recent columns, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation CEO Lori Kahi- kina did not deserve the bullying and harassment that she received from HART board Chair Colleen Hanabusa. Read more
If the former president has any verifiable facts to back up his claims, then produce them. He cannot because they do not exist. Read more
A May article on wildfire risk says the on-scene commander has responsibility for determining necessary evacuation actions based on frontline conditions. Read more
May is over and with it the annual ALS Proclamation in recognition of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Awareness and ALS Families Appreciation Month signed by Gov. Josh Green. Read more
A letter on May 16 goes too far with falsehoods (“Israel using questionable justification for Gaza war,” Star-Advertiser). Read more
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Honolulu Ocean Safety broke ground in a couple of different ways last week. Read more
Consider what’s more humane: leaving someone who’s mentally ill and homeless living in squalor and danger on the streets; or taking that person off the streets for help, perhaps even onto a road to a better life? Read more
It’s officially hurricane season in the central Pacific, which runs through Nov. 30. Read more
Our views on race and race relations are shaped by where we grow up. I had the good fortune of being born and raised in Hawaii. Read more
Has anyone reviewed the results of the “Ohana Housing” experiment of several years ago? Read more
As I drove down Ward Avenue past the remains of TGI Fridays and the Honolulu Club, I saw nothing but new condominium structures being built. Read more
Addressing homelessness in Hawaii requires more than temporary shelters and short-term solutions. Read more
The verdict Thursday finding former President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts against him will only propel his victory as president on Nov. 5. Read more
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as “ … acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” Read more
Last week, if Mayor Rick Blangiardi was looking at a list of candidates already filed to run for Honolulu mayor, he had to be smiling. Read more
State efforts to supercharge housing creation picked up steam on Tuesday when Gov. Josh Green signed a group of consequential housing bills, all of which reduce roadblocks to or strengthen potential incentives for development of new housing. Read more
In Hawaii, approximately 8,000 3- and 4-year-olds lack adequate access to pre-K education. Enacted into state law in 2020, Act 46 set the ambitious goal of ensuring early learning access to all 3- and 4-year-olds statewide by 2032. Read more
