Opinions, guest essays and editorials from the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Featuring Kokua Line, Rearview Mirror, David Shapiro, Richard Borreca and others.
Question: We have donated money to multiple organizations to help those affected by the Lahaina fires, including American Red Cross, Hawaii Community Foundation, Kako‘o Maui and others. Read more
Question: Regarding the feral chickens, I have some questions. If they’re on city or state property, we still don’t have to pay for it, right? How much did the city budget for catching chickens on private property? What about the state? Read more
Spoiler alert: Those of us old enough to remember the no-blood, no-foul intensity of the NBA of the 1980s are spoiled. Read more
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Before jumping to conclusions about memory concerns, it’s prudent to check whether those issues could be related to nutrient deficiencies. Read more
Question: I’ve seen many stories of people fleeing Lahaina with just the clothes on their backs, and you just know a lot of them had to leave computers behind that they need to replace. Is any group on Oahu accepting used computers for this purpose? I have a laptop and two monitors. Read more
With our pale blue planet logging the hottest summer on record since 1880, fall can’t come soon enough. And for the tech community, the season brings a broad menu of events to carry us into the holidays. Read more
There was a time when Hawaii was “the” place for entertainment events. Read more
Question: What is the Sunshine Law? Read more
Debates about Hawaii’s public policy failures often end with fingers of blame pointed at our one-party rule by Democrats, who have long held the governorship and super-majorities in both houses of the Legislature. Read more
A player named Bryan Addison had a chance at a spectacular grab of a Brayden Schager bomb in the second quarter, nearly making an over-the-helmet basket catch Saturday at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore. Read more
Synopsis: U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney has declared publicly, via an article in the Deseret News, that he will not be seeking reelection when his current term comes to an end after next year. Read more
Question: Is the Honolulu Board of Water Supply aware of any over-billings (duplicate charges) for auto-pay customers? If yes, is this problem widespread? Read more
Three months ago I wrote about Al Michaels, the great sportscaster whose early professional years were in Hawaii. When he moved here in 1968, he often worked with Chuck Leahey, who founded a three-generation broadcasting legacy with son Jim and grandson Kanoa. Read more
Before the development of magnetic resonance imaging, X-rays were the only way to image inside the body. But X-rays are too energetic and show hard structures such as bones while they penetrate connective tissue and organs that show only as ghostly images. Read more
Question: What can we do about roosters that wake us up every single day before 4 a.m.? The sun is not up but the roosters are! Sleep deprivation is taking a toll. Read more
Rick Blangiardi managed a group of about 10 young men long before he ran a city and county of more than a million inhabitants. Read more
Question: In recent months I have received letters via U.S. mail rejecting applications for department store credit cards — applications that I had not submitted. Read more
Question: I gave to the Maui Strong Fund and wondered how they are spending the money. Read more
On the surface, Allison Francis, an English professor at Chaminade University, might not quite fit the profile of “digital nomad,” but don’t let her humanities bona fides fool you. Read more
There was plenty of misguided finger-pointing when only 7,646 — 49.9% of seating capacity — went through the Ching Complex turnstiles for last Saturday’s football game between Hawaii and Albany. Read more
As someone who grew up watching University of Hawaii sports and graduated from UHM, all this college conference realignment is setting off an alarm in the back of my head — the Western Athletic Conference breakup of 1998 has saddled me with abandonment issues that I can’t shake. Read more
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