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Why Nestor Garcia Is Bad For Journalism In Hawaii KHON

Why Nestor Garcia Is Bad For Journalism In Hawaii

KHON has now hired Garcia twice since he was fined by the Honolulu Ethics Commission for misdeeds committed while he was a City Council member.

Rigor Or Rigor Mortis? Re-Evaluating Common Core PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Rigor Or Rigor Mortis? Re-Evaluating Common Core

The academic standards system should be reconsidered in Hawaii, where this writer questions whether Common Core promotes great teaching and learning or standardized tests.

Hawaii Is Making Positive Changes In Managing Prisons Chad Blair/Civil Beat

Hawaii Is Making Positive Changes In Managing Prisons

Over the past year, Hawaii leaders have moved forward with welcome reforms on sentencing, inmate rights/privileges and community corrections.

Eradication Plan Won’t Kill Just Rodents And Mongooses Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Eradication Plan Won’t Kill Just Rodents And Mongooses

The poison that the state plans to spread could become part of Hawaii’s food chain, soil and water.

Why I’m Against the NRA’s Tortured Logic Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Why I’m Against the NRA’s Tortured Logic

Kauai’s police chief discusses keeping our communities safe from violence.

Fundraising Companies Sometimes Take Huge Share Of Charitable Gifts Flickr: Images_of_Money

Fundraising Companies Sometimes Take Huge Share Of Charitable Gifts

Does the charity you think you’re giving to actually receive only a fraction of the donation? There are ways to find out.

Who Deserves Your Charity? This Might Help You Decide Flickr.com

Who Deserves Your Charity? This Might Help You Decide

Here’s where you can go to find out what nonprofits are paying their top executives — but don’t consider all high salaries to be unreasonable.

Forget The Hitler Comparison, Trump Is Reincarnation Of Mussolini Marion Doss/Flickr.com

Forget The Hitler Comparison, Trump Is Reincarnation Of Mussolini

With nationalistic appeals to the angry and uneducated, Trump on the campaign trail is channeling the war-era Italian dictator.

Preventing Zika: Why Does Cuba Do A Better Job Than Hawaii?

Preventing Zika: Why Does Cuba Do A Better Job Than Hawaii?

A poor island nation puts the Aloha State to shame when it comes to public health efforts, including spraying to decrease disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Election 2016 Begs Question: Whatever Happened To De Tocqueville? Wikimedia Commons

Election 2016 Begs Question: Whatever Happened To De Tocqueville?

The current field of candidates and level of political discourse makes one writer long for the vision and inspirational leadership of John F. Kennedy.