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Letter: Slow ambulance responses may lead to more death

Letters to the Editor

Local EMS provider American Medical Response has arbitrarily began significantly slowing ambulance responses and care for trauma, cardiac, and stroke patients here in Hawaii. Once AMR began mandating drive cameras in all of their ambulances, the AI software in ambulances will trigger an alarm in the ambulance to warn the person driving that they are speeding. If you get a few of these you get remedial training. If you get more then you could be fired for violating the driving policy. Both the fire and police department have similar policies but they are not enforcing them and ...

Stephen Moore: Republicans can win on health care affordability

Columns

For most of the last 40 years, pollsters have asked voters: Which party do you trust more on health care? The answer has been pretty much the same over this whole period. Voters trust Democrats more, sometimes by a two-to-one margin. When I've asked my Republican politicos why that is, the ...

Dr. Jessica A. Johnson: The physical and emotional toll of war

Columns

As the war with Iran has been going on for four weeks, 13 U.S. service members have been killed. Ohioans have been honoring the lives of three members of the state's Air National Guard who died in a refueling plane crash on March 12 while supporting Operation Epic Fury: Capts. Seth Koval and ...

Letter: Hemp ban added to federal funding bill is concerning

Letters to the Editor

Living and working in Ha‘ikū, Hawai‘i, I understand how policy decisions made thousands of miles away can have outsized effects on local communities. That is why the hemp ban quietly added to a federal funding bill is so concerning. Changes with consequences this serious should not be made without transparency, especially for states like Hawai‘i, where access and supply chains already come with unique challenges. Hemp-derived products play a role in many people’s daily lives across the islands, including small business owners, veterans, seniors, and ...

Rich Lowry: The Israel hoax

Columns

We've long known that Donald Trump drives his critics crazy, and he's now doing it to some critics who used to be friends. The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War in behalf of Israel, which would make him the handmaiden of a foreign power. That ...