It wasn’t my idea – really, it wasn’t – to put Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota on last week’s MidWeek cover. I don’t have enough brass...

It wasn’t my idea – really, it wasn’t – to put Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, a local boy, on the MidWeek cover. I don’t have...

When was the last time you heard something that made you change your mind on a particular topic? Maybe it was after coming across a...

I considered writing about my daughter Dawn’s July 28 marriage to Kalei Luat. I’d written about other moments as she and her brother grew up,...

Politics is the one area of life where Americans in general, and the people of Hawaii in particular, tend not to cheer for the underdog,...

This is the second in a two-part series on my recent visit to Japan, the second in 15 months. I like old stuff, which is...

A behind-the-scenes note to MidWeek readers: As a political independent (lower-case i), every week I edit and publish columns with which I disagree, on both...

A few notes from nine fabulous days in Japan. Which is semi-redundant, because after two trips to the Land of the Rising Sun in the...