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Reader Rep: Time To Talk About KHON Editor’s Transgressions iStock.com

Reader Rep: Time To Talk About KHON Editor’s Transgressions

Hiring a journalist with documented ethical lapses should concern local news audiences.

Breaking The Cycle of Violence And Abuse Rob Blake via Vimeo

Breaking The Cycle of Violence And Abuse

An gathering this week in Honolulu will bring together experts from around the world on the topic of trauma across the lifespan.

Addressing Tax Credits For Low Income Renters Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Addressing Tax Credits For Low Income Renters

The Legislature is poised to update a credit measure that hasn’t been addressed in 35 years and amounts to only $19 a year in today’s money.

Sen. Mazie Hirono Is A Welcome Counter To The Voices Of Intolerance Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Sen. Mazie Hirono Is A Welcome Counter To The Voices Of Intolerance

An immigrant herself, the Hawaii senator speaks out on the pitfalls of exclusion.

Curt Sanburn: Architecture Month Brings Review Of The City Mixed Plate: The Architecture of Hawaii

Curt Sanburn: Architecture Month Brings Review Of The City

Architects share prescriptions for a better built environment in Hawaii.

The Barriers To Education That Tuition Hikes Place On Students Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

The Barriers To Education That Tuition Hikes Place On Students

The chair of the House Higher Ed Committee wonders if he and leaders of the University of Hawaii live in two different worlds.

Tom Yamachika: State Might As Well Tax Transient Vacation Rentals Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Tom Yamachika: State Might As Well Tax Transient Vacation Rentals

Neighbors don’t like them, and some are illegal, but the brokers who arrange the deals should still collect the taxes.

Luke Evslin: The Dark Side Of Renewable Energy Matthew Borkoski, Kauai Island Utility Cooperative

Luke Evslin: The Dark Side Of Renewable Energy

Kauai’s remarkable progress towards eliminating greenhouse gas emissions is shifting costs from the wealthiest to the lowest-income families.

Hillary Will Fight For Native Hawaiians’ Hopes, Dreams

Hillary Will Fight For Native Hawaiians’ Hopes, Dreams

Whether supporting World Heritage site designation of the Papah膩naumoku膩kea marine monument or a U.N. declaration on indigenous peoples’ rights, Clinton has been there for Hawaii.

Sanders-Clinton Battle Reflects Decades-Old Party Rift ABC

Sanders-Clinton Battle Reflects Decades-Old Party Rift

Sanders in many ways represents the Democratic Party’s historic commitment to liberal economic policies, and Clinton, right-leaning party policies of the past 30 years.