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The only thing more reliable in Hawaii than the annual explosions lighting up the New Year’s Eve sky has been the failure of politicians and law enforcement to address the issue in any meaningful way.

Gov. Josh Green’s push for tourists to help fund climate mitigation is just the latest round of a debate that goes back nearly a century.

Japanese laborers were unable to sway powerful plantation owners and hysterical English-language newspaper editors in 1909, but they set changes in motion that would dramatically shape modern Hawaii. 

Whether tourists destroy neighborhoods or provide a critical financial lifeline to residents is an argument that goes back a generation.

Lawmakers have been vacillating over how to handle weed consumption in the islands since the late 1960s.

Doctors and mental health advocates have been calling for changes in how Hawaii cares for the mentally ill for generations.

The city was home to an extensive streetcar system that shaped neighborhoods before it was replaced by buses and automobiles.

The recent decision to cancel a Waianae-Castle match over safety concerns is just the latest chapter in a saga that goes back at least 60 years.

Politicians have been pledging to address a shortage of housing in the islands for decades, but the root causes of the crisis run deep.

In 1922, newspapers reported extensively on the possibility of a Filipino branch of the Ku Klux Klan operating in the Hawaiian islands. There was no such group, but the real story is just as dark.