This week let’s talk about dogs. National politics is hateful, local politics is torpid and besides, we are entering the “Dog Days of Summer” and need to chill. Read more
At the end, building the telescope, neither delay nor talk, can be Ige’s only resolution. Read more
Of course, disgraced former police chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, who were convicted on federal conspiracy and obstruction charges, have no one except themselves to blame for crashing from crime fighters to convicts. Read more
If you think Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the Honolulu City Council last week really took care of the problems caused by Airbnb and other short-term vacation rentals in Honolulu, then your reality check is going to take a really long time. Read more
Gov. David Ige and Mayor Kirk Caldwell are likely to leave office with a legacy haunted by two big issues they never campaigned on, couldn’t hide from and are probably so divisive, they couldn’t win. Read more
Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye airport is crowded, dirty, needlessly confusing and remains this way despite decades of promises to do better. Read more
Death is the clear sign that Honolulu is in a life-threatening crisis and we have turned no corner, the tragedy has not found a remedy; instead it is increasingly a killer. Read more
Cracks are forming in the dam that Hawaii’s U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard built to keep out the reality of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Read more
This year’s 10 million visitors to Hawaii include a group not in search of sun and mai tais, but money. Read more
It has been mulled over and promised for years, and now the state Legislature is finally taking a major step in reforming voting in Hawaii. Read more
A touch of financial reality will soon force itself into the conversation at City Hall. Read more
Any Hawaii politician who doesn’t understand their massive political power probably will not last long. Read more
Hawaii’s Legislature and the administration of Gov. David Ige find themselves in a familiar place, searching but not finding a resolution to the skyrocketing number of vacation rental units in Hawaii. Read more
As former vice president and likely presidential candidate Joe Biden is discovering, sometimes those “aloha kisses” should not be shared. Read more
This year’s edition of the state Legislature is readying to both end on May 2 and decide how real it is going to be. Read more
Happy Birthday, Hawaii State Capitol: Here’s hoping we can take better care of you, so you can last another 50 years. Read more
As the Beto O’Rourke for President campaign arrives in Hawaii, some of the first hands pushing the effort forward belong to former Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Read more
If there ever was a government entity in need of a shot of public confidence, it is HART — the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation. Read more
I can count a half-dozen times over the years when the federal government has told Hawaii officials to either do more to control a problem, pay attention to your citizens’ needs or simply clean up the place. And when the state or county refused, it cost hundreds of millions of Hawaii taxpayer dollars. Read more
Hawaii, in 2000, became the first state to legislatively approve having and using marijuana for medical purposes. Read more
It will be up to the counties to figure out another way besides just asking for new, never-envisioned taxing powers — because this Legislature is not giving up its power. Read more
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