This past weekend, the Republican-led Senate confirmed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the next U.S. attorney general. Like Richard Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, Blanche has carried out the illegal orders of a president of the United States. As was Mitchell's fate, ...
In response to Jeffrey Dennison’s Aug. 2 letter, “Disheartened with paid beach parking spreading,” I appreciate his concern about preserving access to Maui’s beaches. We all share that goal. One important fact deserves emphasis: Park Maui is free for kamaʻāina, all day, every day. Hawaiʻi residents with a valid Hawaiʻi driver’s license park free at participating Park Maui beach locations. Residents who prefer not to use the app can simply scan their license at a kiosk—no personal information is retained from kiosk transactions. Park Maui is about managing a limited ...
For the past several years, I have enjoyed viewing friends' photos on Facebook of their children heading back to school. Many now have children in college, while some still have kids in high school. My friends often post their kindergarten or elementary school pictures next to the current ...
Congress continues to spend billions subsidizing industrial meat and dairy production even as these industries contribute significantly to climate change, water pollution, and other environmental problems (Euronews, Feb. 23, 2026). Instead of addressing the root causes of these impacts, policymakers are investing even more in a system that increasingly relies on technological fixes rather than meaningful reform. Americans are encouraged to recycle, drive less, and reduce their carbon footprints, yet taxpayer dollars continue to prop up industries that undermine those same climate ...
In the pantheon of parental duties, shopping for school supplies stands alone. At the tripart crossroads of "least enjoyable," "most expensive" and "least negotiable," it is an intrinsic part of life in late summer, and it has been since I was a kid in the Cretaceous era. I remember it much ...
The biggest obstacle facing a new “Spider-Man” movie wasn’t the question of where the story would pick up. We know that Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) now lives in a world where his friends and even MJ (Zendaya), the love of his life, don’t remember him. Clearly, the story ...
