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Bob Jones
Just Thoughts // Four Days On The Mekong River
Here’s one that definitely belongs on your “bucket list” – things to do before you croak: A four-day, five-night float on the Mekong River from...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Ignoring Looming Catastrophes
The paralysis with which our country faces the crises of health care and global climate change is enough to make an aging political columnist grow...

Larry Price
The Right Price // Less Penalty For Pakalolo
You have to admire the work our legislators handle this time of the year. They have so many things to do before and during the...

Jerry Coffee
Coffee Break // The Cuban Missile Crisis Lesson
In their jointly written Wall Street Journal opinion column (Feb. 26, 2013), Sens. Corker (R-Tenn.) and Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations...

Larry Price
The Right Price // UH Accountability So Far? None
There’s a lot of talk around town about accountability these days. An accountability study is under way at the University of Hawaii. Surprisingly, it’s being...

Bob Jones
Just Thoughts // Letting It All Hang Out — Or Not
San Francisco has banned nudity on city property. I’m good with that. Our society isn’t comfortable with exhibitionists letting it all hang out in public...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // Investing In Early Education
A Peace Corps buddy and his wife visited recently. They had lived in Hawaii at the beginning of his career as a journalist, a time...

Bob Jones
Just Thoughts // Merrie Monarch Opening Up, Sorta
Somebody at the Merrie Monarch Festival in Hilo is paying attention to you fans – and even to me, as a yearly attendee and writer...

Dan Boylan
Mostly Politics // A Fitting Way To Honor Sen. Inouye
In spring 1975, UH professor Paul Hooper and I drove to Kailua to interview Gov. John A. Burns for the “John A. Burns Oral History...

Larry Price
The Right Price // UH And The Legislature
After the Stevie Wonder “blunder,” there was a consensus among those who keep an eye on the University of Hawaii system that when the legislative...

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