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The top-down, business model of public education that our state advances today is obsessed with mass testing, teacher evaluation and other dubious reform measures.

Taking food and supplies to the homeless encampment in urban Honolulu renews one writer’s connection to our common humanity.

Let’s get comfortable with being uncomfortable, so that we can gain more from the diversity of our opinions.

Unless we make bringing down electricity costs the top priority in energy policy, most of us will continue to pay far too much.

Taxpayers only have 12 months to file for credits, but state has up to three years to amend those credits — downward.

Lanai residents, well, some of them anyway, turned out for a couple of recent sessions with NextEra and the Public Utilities Commission.

The islands should incorporate unmanned aerial vehicles into tourism, education, research and entrepreneurship.

Alaska has already embarked on an audacious statewide strategy to make unmanned aerial vehicles a major part of its economy.

After spending three years and over $4 million to create a list of Native Hawaiians  more than 84 percent of all Native Hawaiians remain un-registered.

The state’s desperate effort to fill teaching positions by offering one-time incentives proves that salaries here aren’t enough to attract highly qualified teachers.