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Todd Simmons: Trump-Induced Panic At The GOP Flickr.com/DonkeyHotey

Todd Simmons: Trump-Induced Panic At The GOP

With each passing day that The Donald stays at or near the top of polls, chances grow that he could become the Republican nominee — a frightening prospect for party leaders.

Zuri Aki: A Local’s Guide To Inciting An Eco-Revolution Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Zuri Aki: A Local’s Guide To Inciting An Eco-Revolution

Our actions in this small archipelago are amplified far beyond us.

Tom Yamachika: Why Can’t Hawaii Spend All That Federal Money? Flickr: Sheree Zielke

Tom Yamachika: Why Can’t Hawaii Spend All That Federal Money?

State agencies can’t seem to spend all of the $2.5 billion in federal money they get each year, but they still turn down the offer of help to manage those grants.

Supreme Court Rightly Rejects Hawaii Campaign Law Challenge Chad Blair/Civil Beat/2015

Supreme Court Rightly Rejects Hawaii Campaign Law Challenge

The justices refuse to hear a Hawaii appeal that had the potential to do on a local level what Citizens United has done to federal elections.

Deep Nonsense Or Sesquipedallanism On Campus Roy Blumenthal/Flickr.com

Deep Nonsense Or Sesquipedallanism On Campus

Vacuous solipsism has to be dressed up in order to pass academic inspection.

Peter Apo: Caretaking Our Precious Past Wikimedia Commons

Peter Apo: Caretaking Our Precious Past

The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium is too valuable to our history to be demolished. Let’s quit fighting over it and find a way to restore the iconic site.

City Must Reform How Planning Department Works With Developers Civil Beat

City Must Reform How Planning Department Works With Developers

Documents in a class-action suit against Haseko should provoke an ethics investigation and change how city planners work with developers.

Ian Lind: Hawaii Gets A Gold Star For Consumer Complaints John Pritchett/Civil beat

Ian Lind: Hawaii Gets A Gold Star For Consumer Complaints

Hawaii has two online databases that consumers can turn to if they want to find out about a company or contractor. Still, it’s not perfect.

Arming Terrorists Through Congressional Inaction Colorado Springs Police Department

Arming Terrorists Through Congressional Inaction

Why won’t Congress act to keep those on the FBI terrorist watch list from buying guns? More than 2,000 people with terrorist ties already are armed.

Denby Fawcett: Oldest Female Marathon Runner Dreams The Impossible Dream Courtesy of Ronan Zilberman

Denby Fawcett: Oldest Female Marathon Runner Dreams The Impossible Dream

Gladys Burrill made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 as the oldest woman to finish a marathon. Now 97, she encourages younger runners.