As recently reported in the New York Times, problems with a 25-year-old landmark paper on the safety of Roundup’s active ingredient, glyphosate, have led to calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to reassess the widely used chemical. Bayer, which purchased Monsanto, the company that ...

Puunene Post Office, da old one on Hansen Road, not da Kahului kine, get ballots on da ground inside. You can see um from da windows They wen close um las year afta A&B sold um fo fix um up and now all fix up, but neva open. Why? And now get ballots on da ground inside. Not right. ...

Why is it so hard to talk to someone from the post office? The automated system asks you about ten but you cannot talk to a human. You are deterred from talking to customer service by the manipulation of the automated system. They want you to hang up or drive all the way to the post office ...

I recently witnessed “rage bait” on social media, someone insinuating overhearing someone say, “Hawaiians don’t deserve to have a nice home, so we’re going to keep our recently inherited home.” Please stop vilifying. Why would anyone want to keep a home they are not going to ...

In January 2025, I was sent a notice from Maui County Real Property Tax Division that my single-family home in an older Kihei subdivision was appraised at $1,350,000, an increase of $265,000 from the previous assessment. Their justification was two homes in the vicinity sold for higher. I ...

I left Maui to serve my country, but I never stopped belonging to it. After more than two decades as a U.S. Navy Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman, I am now retired from military service and living with the long-term physical and mental toll that accompanies a career spent caring for others under ...