It seems almost every politician who is seeking your vote in November has adopted the same mantra: “Too many of our residents are fleeing to the mainland because they cannot afford to live here anymore. We need more affordable workforce housing units to provide our residents with an ...
Maui County Council Member Tamara Paltin brought two bills before the Disaster, Recovery, International Affairs and Planning Committee in early September seeking to put some guardrails on how and when the police can use footage collected from real-time surveillance cameras. Instead, Bills 112 ...
The perfect metaphor to characterize the UN General Assembly delegates who walked out before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke is this: "There are none so blind as those who will not see." You can't make people understand the truth if they choose to ignore it. The problem with ...
It would be hard to find a more insulting offer than to exchange money for your vote. That's exactly what President Donald Trump did in announcing that if voters keep Republicans in power come the midterms, he'll send every adult citizen a $5,000 check. Now, one would not put money on that ...
In 2016, Donald Trump's support for tariffs helped propel him to a shocking electoral victory. In 2026, his tariff policy may help tank Republicans in the midterms. This turnabout counts as a surprise of Trump's second term, and an unwelcome one for the president and his party. During his ...
Today, with just over five weeks to go before the midterm elections, I want to point out a critical distinction that's not being picked up in the media — between people who voted for Trump in 2024 but do not identify as part of the MAGA movement and people who voted for Trump in 2024 and ...
