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Native Hawaiian Artists Inspire, Ignite Social Change Brad Goda Photography

Native Hawaiian Artists Inspire, Ignite Social Change

A debut class of Native Hawaiian artist fellows has much to offer by way of helping Hawaii to craft unique solutions to the myriad competing challenges it faces today.

Peter Apo: The Last Telescope Courtesy TMT International Observatory

Peter Apo: The Last Telescope

I am convinced we will find a way to link arms in the name of humanity and share one of the greatest endeavors in the history of the world.

Spiritual Healing: A ‘More Hawaiian’ Way to Deal With Delinquent Kids Jessica Terrell / Civil Beat

Spiritual Healing: A ‘More Hawaiian’ Way to Deal With Delinquent Kids

Honolulu is piloting a program for troubled youths that focuses on trauma in their lives. Can it make a dent in the state鈥檚 high rate of arrests for minor crimes?

Let Native Hawaiians Take the Lead on Issues Such as TMT Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Let Native Hawaiians Take the Lead on Issues Such as TMT

Writer grew up on Oahu, but contends that there are times when he and the rest of the islands’ residents should defer to Native Hawaiians.

OHA Board Rescinds Support for Thirty Meter Telescope Cory Lum/Civil Beat

OHA Board Rescinds Support for Thirty Meter Telescope

But the trustees decline to go on record as opposing the $1.4 billion project.

Ian Lind: Dangerous Intersection of Social Policy and ‘Sacred’ Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Ian Lind: Dangerous Intersection of Social Policy and ‘Sacred’

It’s easy to get the impression native Hawaiian issues weren’t thoroughly considered when the Thirty Meter Telescope was approved. They were.

Does the Thirty Meter Telescope Pose Environmental Risks? Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

Does the Thirty Meter Telescope Pose Environmental Risks?

Supporters, opponents of what will be the biggest observatory on Mauna Kea disagree over the value of assurances in the environmental impact statement.

Residents Opposing Mauna Kea Telescope March on the Capitol Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

Residents Opposing Mauna Kea Telescope March on the Capitol

More than 53,000 people have signed a petition opposing the planned observatory.

Mauna Kea Telescopes: The Business of Astronomy Is Not an Easy One Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Mauna Kea Telescopes: The Business of Astronomy Is Not an Easy One

Exciting discoveries in astronomy are made on the Big Island but observatory directors say there’s no financial profit for institutions.

The Projector: TMT Protests on the Mountaintop and on Oahu Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

The Projector: TMT Protests on the Mountaintop and on Oahu

The growing effort to halt construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope unfolds atop Mauna Kea and at venues like the UH Manoa campus.