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Too many Hawaii children are falling behind early, due to inadequate education supports, and never catch up. Investing in them now yields huge savings later.

If Trump wins, they’ll likely have plenty of influence despite his being an outsider. And if the GOP loses? No problem for these big-picture guys.

Trump’s birther claims about Obama and insensitivity to Japanese Americans leave a particular stink in Hawaii.

Rather than rebuke Trump’s attacks on the truthfulness of President Obama’s birth records five years ago, local Republicans refused to condemn them and in one case even encouraged them.

Hawaii has one of the nation’s lowest rates of students participating in school breakfast programs. We can fix that.

The provision of the U.S. Constitution dealing with a “well regulated militia”  no longer serves any useful purpose.

A political fight over funding for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has unfairly ensnared the judicial system.

The lack of paid family leave perpetuates status differences between men and women that almost always disadvantage mothers. We can do better.

This new column will hold professional journalists and news organizations to the highest standards for serving you.

As the deadline nears for child sex abuse victims to sue, one of the first to step forward talks about his settlement with Hawaii’s Catholic Church.