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Instead, let’s pay for transportation and road repairs through a substantial increase in the gas tax and the vehicle weight tax.

Without NextEra we will at least keep the power to find solutions that make sense for us, island by island, district by district, and house by house.

As the Naʻi Aupuni ʻAha continues, the question arises: Who should be defined as a citizen of a new Hawaiian government?

Are mainland cities sending homeless people to the islands? Is the state using public money to send them back? Is this paradise if you sleep outside?

Several significant efforts to hold police accountable and provide more disclosure of misconduct should continue to get traction in the Hawaii Legislature.

Living in Ohio and D.C. has helped me better appreciate what I left behind on Oahu.

Getting oriented at one of Oahu’s most over-planned and misunderstood chunks of real estate.

Despite the bill’s benefits for homeowners and Hawaii’s clean energy movement, it has stalled in the House. The writer seeks help in keeping the bill alive.

Many UH students remember Scalia’s 2014 campus visit, but this writer still recalls a trip to D.C. and a frustrating exchange about U.S. annexation of Hawaii.

The GET is far-reaching and baked into almost everything in our economy. Proposed increases are still alive and well at the Legislature.