Here’s something BIG we’ve missed out on. It’s called “medical tourism.” A million-and-a-half Americans will travel somewhere this year for bone, heart or cosmetic surgery...

I’ve wrestled mightily with the too-frequent school killings matter, come up with some ideas, chucked them, written potential columns about it and tossed those out...

A new Legislature and a new City Council are under way. New mayor for Oahu. What are we in for? I sense from my emails,...

Picking great, good and OK movies to see has become much more difficult, and with today’s prices, you don’t want to waste money on the...

First things first. I have nothing against Brian Schatz. Young, energetic, liberal, did some small time in the State House, has been the obedient, second-office...

The Star-Advertiser ran an editorial cartoon recently that I really enjoyed: A man standing amid Christmas sale signs and saying “There’s a war against Christmas...

Editor’s note: Soon after Bob Jones filed this column, Hawaii public worker unions, miffed at State House Speaker Calvin Say for not agreeing to raise...

Those national budget talks need some heavy-dose shots of reality. First, the GOP needs to stop talking about how it almost won the 2012 election....

They get elected Hawaii governor, they come into office with a lot of public support, then they poop out. They can, perhaps rightfully, claim that...

I watch Hawaii Five-0 religiously, except when it’s in reruns and the episode is so terrible I can’t tolerate it a second time. I have...