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The issues over Mauna Kea have been ongoing for more than a decade and it is not about science.

Activists are calling for the removal of 13 observatories that support a $90 million industry on the Big Island that would grow appreciably with the Thirty Meter Telescope.

Gov. Ige’s moratorium on the TMT project gives the UH Board of Regents, OHA and Mayor Billy Kenoi opportunities to revisit past choices.

The evidence debunking the fairy tale of Hawaii as the 50th State is conclusive but the news media ignores this.

As a scientist, I cannot stay silent about my disappointment with the widespread opposition to the TMT, especially among students who should be knowledge seekers.

Students rallied on the UH Manoa campus Monday, calling for a permanent halt to TMT construction and the removal of existing telescopes on Mauna Kea.

Social media has helped fuel opposition to the observatory; now proponents are hoping to turn the tide around.

Rather than consider the telescope as an injury to Mauna Kea, perhaps we can view this instrument as an extension of the spirituality directly connecting us to the stars.

Describing traditional Hawaiian faith beliefs as ‘superstition’ involving ‘irrational fears of pagan deities’ is a misrepresentation of those religious ideas.

Professors, staff and students opposing the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea are expected to lend support to the protest.