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Barry Wurst: ‘Goodbye Paradise’ still shines as the first local indie

Dennis Christianson and Tim Savage’s “Goodbye Paradise” (1991) begins with Joe Martin (played by KHON2 news anchor Joe Moore) turning on the lights and opening up the Paradise Inn, the club he manages. Martin is prepping the floor for its final night, as his favorite coworker (Elissa ...

Armstrong Williams: What voters see in the parties

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano: A culture of death

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...

Keith Raffel: When your vote requires dealing with the devil

The United Kingdom stood virtually alone against the Nazi war machine in June 1941. As Germany prepared to invade the Soviet Union that month, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a lifelong anti-communist, declared, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of ...

Veronique de Rugy: $2 Trillion — and no excuse

The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous ...

Jonathan Helton: Abolish redundant board slowing Lahaina’s recovery

State and Maui County officials have waived some of the regulations slowing down Lahaina's wildfire recovery, but there are still hurdles that need to be addressed. One is the county's Urban Design Review Board. That board, staffed by nine volunteers who are either engineers or architects, ...