By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on January 13, 2019 • Updated on January 13, 2019 at 5:06 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on January 13, 2019 • Updated on January 13, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Gabbard built her prominence on a twist to the old political adage that you pick your fights carefully: She carefully picks fights with her own Democratic Party.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on December 16, 2018
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on December 16, 2018
It’s a sign of our cruel times that some 4,500 Oahuans will spend the holidays out in the cold, but heartening to see so many meaningful and caring efforts to bring them in.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on December 2, 2018 • Updated on December 2, 2018 at 1:19 am
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on December 2, 2018 • Updated on December 2, 2018 at 1:19 am
When I moved from Hilo to Washington, D.C., in 1978 to cover the Hawaii congressional delegation for the Honolulu Star- Bulletin, I called the Gannett News Service office I’d be working from to tell them I’d landed safely.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on November 18, 2018 • Updated on November 18, 2018 at 4:34 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on November 18, 2018 • Updated on November 18, 2018 at 4:34 pm
Hawaii LGs have struggled to find meaningful roles since statehood. They come into office with grand plans, only to find themselves toiling at the governor’s whim with assignments that are often menial.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on November 11, 2018
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on November 11, 2018
Mayor Kirk Caldwell stood before microphones last week to announce he’ll float a $44 million short-term loan to meet federal demands to get that much more to the $9 billion rail project by Nov. 20.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on November 4, 2018 • Updated on November 4, 2018 at 9:00 am
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on November 4, 2018 • Updated on November 4, 2018 at 9:00 am
I mailed in my ballot out of hope it still matters, but find it more difficult to fault the majority who don’t consider voting worth their time.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on October 21, 2018
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on October 21, 2018
The first rule of a functioning democracy is that nobody gets to have everything their own way. Unable to square this with our self-righteousness, we’ve broken down into angry and entitled tribes.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on October 14, 2018
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on October 14, 2018
If the teachers’ union wants to amend the state Constitution to facilitate pay raises, it could support a constitutional convention and let its proposal be properly considered alongside all the other priority needs of public education.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on October 7, 2018 • Updated on October 7, 2018 at 11:03 am
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on October 7, 2018 • Updated on October 7, 2018 at 11:03 am
For those having trouble understanding the city’s scheme to finish the grossly over-budget rail project with a public-private partnership, perhaps it would help to think of it by another name: Kick the Can Down the Road.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on September 23, 2018 • Updated on September 23, 2018 at 6:56 am
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on September 23, 2018 • Updated on September 23, 2018 at 6:56 am
The only way America returns to achieving great things is if principled people across the divide shelve the antagonism and find a way to work together again. Maybe we all need to shut up once in awhile and just listen.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on September 16, 2018
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on September 16, 2018
It’s hard to decide what’s worse, the persistent bad news about Oahu’s $9 billion rail project or the city’s unrelenting efforts to put a happy face on the problems.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on September 9, 2018 • Updated on September 9, 2018 at 6:13 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on September 9, 2018 • Updated on September 9, 2018 at 6:13 pm
Twice in six years, state Rep. Romy Cachola has been accused of effectively stealing elections by intimidating elderly immigrants in his Kalihi district to vote for him via mail-in ballots.
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By David Shapiro on September 2, 2018 • Updated on September 1, 2018 at 10:43 pm
By David Shapiro Posted on September 2, 2018 • Updated on September 1, 2018 at 10:43 pm
The four counties make a fair point in their lawsuit trying to stop a poorly written constitutional amendment that would allow the state to raid real property taxes purportedly to finance public education.
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By David Shapiro on August 19, 2018 • Updated on August 27, 2018 at 10:12 am
By David Shapiro Posted on August 19, 2018 • Updated on August 27, 2018 at 10:12 am
The fight between Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the City Council over SamKoo Hawaii’s 513-unit condominium near the Ala Moana Center rail terminus again points up the the chaos that bedevils rail.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on August 12, 2018 • Updated on August 27, 2018 at 10:12 am
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on August 12, 2018 • Updated on August 27, 2018 at 10:12 am
House Speaker Scott Saiki and Finance Chairwoman Sylvia Luke are out of line in their political bullying of Big Island officials trying to recover from an ongoing volcanic disaster that has crippled a major quadrant of the island.
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