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Letter: Support tax credit bill for family caregivers

Letters to the Editor

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 care that would otherwise fall to already overstretched healthcare and long-term care systems. They do this quietly, out of love and responsibility, often at great personal sacrifice. A modest tax credit, such as the one proposed in H.B. 1972, HD1, would not erase these sacrifices, but it would ...

Letter: Non-dairy milk in school lunch long-overdue

Letters to the Editor

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 reasons. Offering plant-based milk isn’t radical, it’s practical. These options provide essential nutrients without the saturated fat and cholesterol found in dairy, and they come with a much smaller environmental footprint. School meals shape lifelong habits. When we normalize plant-based choices early, ...

Jeff Robins: Putin on the Potomac: A grand jury says 'nyet'

Columns

Time was when throwing your political opponents into prison on trumped-up charges was the deplorable domain of despots over whom we claimed moral superiority: Saddam Hussein or the Iranian mullahs, say. Or pick your Soviet premier. Or Vladimir Putin. Those were the good old days. Now it's ...

Letter: Superbowl quarterback Darnold never gave up

Letters to the Editor

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 Vikings. Minnesota also let him go, despite his success there. The previous teams he played for always came to the conclusion that he was the problem, but the teams he played for were the problem. You have to surround yourself with good people and you don't want to end up being the scapegoat. ...

Froma Harrop: Trump stops race to save the creation

Columns

May we talk about spiritual matters? "In the beginning," the Bible opens, "God created the heavens and the earth." Several lines down, God says, let humankind "have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the ...

Daniel McCarthy: Why are anti-ICE activists building borders?

Columns

Anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis are setting up blockades. They're demanding ID from drivers. In short, they're setting up their own borders — against America's laws and law enforcement. It's not the first time "protesters" have done this. Activists inspired by Black Lives Matter ...