For five years, President Donald Trump has peddled the false, justly ridiculed claim that the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden was stolen from him. It is a false claim made even more notable, if possible, by the federal indictment issued by a grand jury finding probable ...
Troubling stories about dangerous encounters with chatbots continue to surface in the news, with two recent reports from NPR that focused on teen suicide and mental health worsening due to people seeking "sentient" relationships with artificial intelligence. The teen suicide story ran last ...
Cryptocurrency kiosks have rapidly expanded across our islands. As a result, consumers, especially kupuna, have been exposed to significant financial risk, fraud and irreversible losses. Senate Bill 2387 is a reasonable, necessary and consumer-focused response to these documented harms. Many consumers who use kiosks do not realize they are converting cash into crypto assets that cannot be disputed, refunded, or traced, once sent. In Hawai‘i, where many residents rely on cash, kiosks can create a false sense of security that mirrors traditional ATMs, but without the same ...
Virginia is the new Illinois. The practice of drawing partisan districts is named after Elbridge Gerry, the 19th century Massachusetts governor. Even he might blush at the extreme gerrymander that Democrats in the commonwealth are pushing. They want to go from a congressional delegation ...
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 troubling. FEMA assigned a professional property management company and survivors were placed responsibly. Yet, instead of being met with patience or understanding, these individuals were subjected to repeated HOA violations and complaints from my condo association. The first survivor placed in ...
"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been talking ...
