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Creating A Model Medical Marijuana Economy Dank Depot via Flickr

Creating A Model Medical Marijuana Economy

Hawaii has a chance to be a world leader in creating聽its new medical marijuana industry. Will it? Or will it create yet another local industry dominated by mainland interests?

Tom Yamachika: Hawaii’s Schizophrenic Fuel Tax Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat/2016

Tom Yamachika: Hawaii’s Schizophrenic Fuel Tax

Is it a user fee or a “sin tax”? Whatever the state decides, it needs to apply the tax fairly.

Civil Geeks: Local Startup Takes On ‘Energy Vampires’ Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Civil Geeks: Local Startup Takes On ‘Energy Vampires’

A Hawaii firm’s smart sockets may produce big energy savings by reducing the waste of “sleeping” devices.

Luke Evslin: The Long And Winding Road To Renewable Energy Kauai Island Utility Cooperative

Luke Evslin: The Long And Winding Road To Renewable Energy

The isolation of each island’s聽electrical grid poses unique challenges for Hawaii.

Improving Lives: The Shared Commitment Of Nonprofits Wikimedia Commons

Improving Lives: The Shared Commitment Of Nonprofits

The nation’s not-for-profit social organizations share a commitment to social impact and community benefit. Child & Family Service is among such groups measuring success in new ways.

Denby Fawcett: Harry Kim, 76, Back In The Race For Big Island Mayor Photo by Bob Jones

Denby Fawcett: Harry Kim, 76, Back In The Race For Big Island Mayor

After heart attacks and other health problems, the former mayor dusts off homemade campaign signs for another low-budget campaign.

Neal Milner: Why The Presidential Race Is Not That Relevant To Our Lives Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Neal Milner: Why The Presidential Race Is Not That Relevant To Our Lives

If our communities are going to improve, even thrive, it’ll be through a form of small-scale politics that has nothing to do with national ideology.

The Status Quo Politics Of Today Offer Bleak Future ABC

The Status Quo Politics Of Today Offer Bleak Future

America’s leaders once set lofty goals and achieved them, for the people. Today’s representatives seem to be representing other interests, this writer argues.

Health Beat: Pushing Testosterone Replacement Is Like Peddling Snake Oil Screen shot from TV ad

Health Beat: Pushing Testosterone Replacement Is Like Peddling Snake Oil

Doses of the male hormone are being marketed as a cure-all for aging men, but there are often better, safer ways to get the same results.

The State Must Be Held Accountable On TMT Process Cory Lum/Civil Beat

The State Must Be Held Accountable On TMT Process

Protests opposing construction of the telescope on Mauna Kea got lots of attention in 2015. But if the project falls apart, state officials will bear the blame.