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Reader Rep: Can News Media Help Us Assess The NextEra Merger? New York Times

Reader Rep: Can News Media Help Us Assess The NextEra Merger?

We benefit when our journalists challenge claims, ask “why” and help us understand complex questions.

Improve Mental Health Care Access By Expanding Prescribing Authority Eddi van W./Flickr.com

Improve Mental Health Care Access By Expanding Prescribing Authority

The Legislature should approve a bill that would grant specially trained psychologists limited authority to prescribe non-narcotics.

Startup Paradise: It’s A Critical Time To Show Support Flickr.com

Startup Paradise: It’s A Critical Time To Show Support

Ambitious plans to grow Hawaii’s innovation sector workforce to 80,000 jobs by 2030 hinge in part on bills before the Legislature聽 now.

Greetings From The Diaspora Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Greetings From The Diaspora

When we聽are forced to relocate from Hawaii, it is not just those of us who move who are affected.

Luke Evslin: Detours On The Way To 100 Percent Renewable Energy Kauai Island Utility Cooperative

Luke Evslin: Detours On The Way To 100 Percent Renewable Energy

There’s no single or聽quick fix聽to converting Hawaii to completely renewable energy.

Civil Geeks: A Promising Approach To Creating ‘Super Corals’ Hollie Putnam

Civil Geeks: A Promising Approach To Creating ‘Super Corals’

“We can assist the evolution of coral,” says the director of the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology.

Zika Findings Require Immediate Federal, State Response Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Zika Findings Require Immediate Federal, State Response

Congress must act on the president’s $1.9 billion emergency funding request and Hawaii must beef up its efforts quickly.

Why We Oppose Hawaii’s Teacher Evaluation System Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Why We Oppose Hawaii’s Teacher Evaluation System

A group of teachers questions the validity and worth of the evaluation system and says it has negative effects on their work in the classroom.

Health Beat: Cutting Corners with Primary Care Doctors Ale Proimos/Flickr.com

Health Beat: Cutting Corners with Primary Care Doctors

Insurances companies keep changing how they pay physicians, and they don’t have patients’ best interests at heart.

What To Do With The Tax Sinkhole That Is Honolulu Rail? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

What To Do With The Tax Sinkhole That Is Honolulu Rail?

Eliminating the final four miles of the current rail route and building the Nimitz Viaduct would provide better commuter service and avoid major disruption to downtown.