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I proudly count Jack Hoag among my 11 regular readers. Don’t misunderstand: I’m proud of the other 10 as well...
It’s become very clear from the polls (and especially polls of young voters) that the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church..
It’s complicated. It’s all very, very complicated. Consider Honolulu City Councilman Stanley Chang’s bemoaning the plight of his Iolani classmates..
There usually is a lot of excitement on all four floors of the Capitol. But when the Hawaii State Legislature..
I was sitting in on a local school’s briefing on programs it hopes to fund for the coming years and..
There had been no bombing raids in or around Hanoi for weeks, a situation that only increased the frustration of..
If there is one virtue needed by anyone who lives on Oahu, it has to be patience. It seems like..
Thirty-one-year-old City Councilman Stanley Chang looks 17 – and a little out of place during a recent interview amid the..
There are about 290 elephants living in zoo captivity in the U.S. – two of them here. We’ve had nine..
Think of yourself, for just a minute, as a consumer of political action. Because if you do, what’s going on..
On Oct. 28, state House Speaker Joe Souki and Senate President Donna Mercado Kim will gavel the members of their..
Demonstrations – at government offices or on sidewalks, parks and beaches – are a distinctly Western “right,” either embedded in..
Last week’s government shutdown of the U.S economy has just about everyone worried about what the future holds. I think..
Oh my! It’s time to change the rules, starting with those laid down in our high school civics books. They..
A few weeks ago I wrote a column about President Barack Obama’s propensity to play fast and loose with the..
On the eve of yet another threatened shutdown of the federal government, a young colleague at the University of Hawaii-West..
You’ve read that the University of Hawaii needs about $490 million to catch up on backlogged repairs. So it wants..
It was encouraging to hear that members of Honolulu City Council came to their senses last week and gave up..
I’ll be very curious to see how the latest pronouncements on abortion, contraceptives and gay people by Pope Francis play..
