Hawaii Renters Need A Voice Now
The deck seems stacked against our tenants, who write some of the nation’s biggest monthly rent checks. Helping them calls for a team effort.
Coercive Nature Of Na’i Aupuni Process Ultimately Dooms It To Failure
Claiming to be able to produce an entity that can speak with one voice for our people is not at all credible.
Denby Fawcett: Bread Quality Is On The Rise In Hawaii
While many breads here are still additive-filled and previously frozen, there’s a movement toward fresh-baked products.
Magical Thinking In America’s Presidential Race
Hucksters like Donald Trump and Ben Carson will not save this country. So don’t believe them.
Curt Sanburn: Discovering Architectural Delights And A Sense Of Place In Pawaa
An architectural tour of a few, tucked-away blocks of central Honolulu uncovers some of the best of mid-20th-century Modernism, Hawaii style.
Monday Memo: OHA Must Stop Wasting Money On Internal Legal Spats
A bitter legal feud is being waged with funds that should be spent on the poor. Also: Public housing eviction rules and a possible pesticide ban.
Two Movements, Both With Inherent Rights to Sovereignty
The Native Hawaiian indigenous people might be well-served by U.S. recognition. That’s different than the true independence of  a multi-ethnic Hawaii nation-state.
FCC Rightly Limits Prisons’ Costly Game of Telephone
Newly passed reforms will trim the exorbitant phone charges that prison inmates and their families face.
UH Football Cannot Go Back To The Future
Norm Chow was on the downside of his coaching career when he was hired by the University of Hawaii. It shouldn’t repeat the mistake by bringing back June Jones.
Curt Sanburn: Mayor Caldwell Retreats From LED Streetlight Plan
The mayor had planned to convert all 52,000 of Oahu’s streetlights to LED lamps, but they were described as “eerie” and “weird” in areas where they were tested.