While attention is on Honolulu International Airport as DFS prepares to leave, Kahului Airport is next, and possibly others after that. What happens in Honolulu will likely set the pattern. DFS helped build airport retail in Hawaiʻi for decades. Their focus on Asian visitors made sense for ...

Sam Darnold, this year’s Superbowl quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, never gave up. I myself believed he was a bust, after being drafted in the first-round as the third overall pick. He played for five different teams and he only really had success with one team, the Minnesota ...

Please let your representative know you are in strong support of HB 197 HD1, which establishes a nonrefundable tax credit for nonpaid family caregivers. Family caregivers are the backbone of Hawaiʻi’s long-term care system. Every day, unpaid caregivers provide countless hours of essential ...

A recent move to expand access to non-dairy milk in school lunch programs is a long-overdue step toward healthier, more inclusive nutrition. Millions of students are lactose intolerant, allergic to dairy, or come from families that avoid animal products for ethical or cultural ...

I remember how I felt when, in grammar school, I wrote my first valentine to my mother. I was very young and misspelled the keyword. The card read: “I enve my father.” A year or so later, a card was given to Joy LaGuardia. I still have a second-grade photo of her, missing most of her ...

After the Maui fires, I offered my condo to Federal Emergency Management Agency so fire survivors — people who lost everything — could have a safe place to live. I did this in the true spirit of aloha, believing that when our neighbors are suffering, we show up. What followed was deeply ...