By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on March 17, 2019
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on March 17, 2019
Ballard offered no comment on the settlement, and we’ve heard little from the Police Commission, which knew of the lawsuit when it appointed Ballard chief.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on March 10, 2019
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on March 10, 2019
As often happens in politics, Democrats and other interest groups jumping on the recreational marijuana bandwagon were confusing a shiny new thing with a priority.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on March 3, 2019 • Updated on March 3, 2019 at 4:11 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on March 3, 2019 • Updated on March 3, 2019 at 4:11 pm
The federal criminal investigation of Honolulu rail has put on painful display the defining flaw that’s driven this $9.2 billion fiasco: denial of reality.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on February 17, 2019 • Updated on February 17, 2019 at 8:03 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on February 17, 2019 • Updated on February 17, 2019 at 8:03 pm
Most welcome here is seeing state law enforcers finally show up to help confront the sewer of improbity swirling around us, after sitting on the sideline far too long and leaving it to the feds to clean up local corruption.
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By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser on February 10, 2019 • Updated on February 10, 2019 at 2:53 pm
By David Shapiro, Special to the Star-Advertiser Posted on February 10, 2019 • Updated on February 10, 2019 at 2:53 pm
As U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard struggles to right her faltering campaign for president, deafening in their silence are fellow Hawaii Democratic politicians who have been slow to back the hometown candidate.
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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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