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Hawaii Renters Need A Voice Now Cory Lum/Civil Beat

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 Cory Lum/Civil Beat

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

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 Flickr.com/DonkeyHotey

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 © 2015, David Franzen Photography

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 Chad Blair/Civil Beat

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 Cory Lum/Civil Beat

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 Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

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 Cory Lum / Civil Beat

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 Curt Sanburn

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.