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Letters — Your Voice — April 22

whtnone — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Regarding Trump and the Constitution

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Letters — Your Voice — April 18

whtnone — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Naalehu a good location for KTA supermarket

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Letters — Your Voice — April 16

whtnone — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Regarding Pope Leo and President Trump

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Trump’s ballroom

whtnone — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Underneath the East Wing of the White House, there was a bunker designed to create a safe place for the president and critical members of his Cabinet in event of a catastrophe. There are reports the president was moved there on Jan. 6, 2021, when things got out of control.

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Letters — Your Voice — May 15

whtnone — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Thoughts on deadly Saddle Road collisions

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Data centers aren’t the enemy — They’re the future

whtnone — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

For a bunch of unremarkable warehouses, they’re generating a lot of controversy. Data centers — low-slung facilities that house the server racks and energy systems that underpin the digital economy — have become a heated issue on the campaign trail. Politicians from both parties are pushing bills to restrict them. Some want a nationwide “moratorium.” That would be a historic mistake.

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May we never grow inured to homelessness

whtnone — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Most Saturday mornings, I stroll half a mile downhill from my tiny apartment in a bosky part of San Francisco to a farmers market. My usual reverie of anticipation (about carrots with their tops attached, about the price of berries) was interrupted recently by the sight of three bodies.

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Letters to the Editor for May 12

whtnone — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Half measures won’t fix ungulates problem

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The cost of gutting science is invisible yet enormous

whtnone — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Intelligence agencies often complain that they are judged unfairly because you hear about their failures, not their successes. It’s hard to evaluate anything based on what didn’t happen — even when that’s really the important thing. The problem is just as salient for those trying to create a better future as trying to avert a worse one. When it comes to research, we can see technologies and industries that exist. We can’t see the ones that were never invented because the science that should have created them was defunded.

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Reining in wasteful federal spending: A vital step to reducing energy costs

whtnone — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has increasingly become a vehicle for federal spending to shape energy markets and subsidize favored technologies. The result has been higher energy costs, growing deficits, and a sprawling bureaucracy that often fails to deliver useful services.

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Letters — Your Voice — May 9

whtnone — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Honua Ola is bad for people and environment

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Letters — Your Voice — May 7

whtnone — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Matson should ‘do the right thing’

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Letters — Your Voice — May 6

whtnone — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

High oil prices proves the need for energy self-reliance

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Taxing artificial intelligence would be a big mistake

whtnone — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Artificial intelligence might be the most transformative technology ever devised. Exactly how its effects will work through the economy is impossible to say, but serious disruption of one kind or another seems likely. Millions of jobs — in the end, maybe most jobs — could radically change, and many will disappear entirely.

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Will the Iran war make Trump gun-shy or trigger-happy?

whtnone — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Iran war, which Donald Trump started in February for no good reason and which could flare up again at any moment, broke a streak of easy American military wins. This raises a question for other countries that the U.S. president might coerce or attack, from Cuba to Nigeria, and from Danish Greenland to North Korea: Will the strategic fiasco in the Middle East make Trump more gun-shy, or even more trigger-happy?

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King Charles gets a W

whtnone — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Most Americans think of the Bill of Rights as a bespoke 1789 creation for a nation that was, in the signature “Hamilton” lyric of Lin-Manuel Miranda, “young, scrappy and hungry.”

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Politics has come to work, once an apolitical space

whtnone — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Acolleague recently emailed me a picture of a seemingly political gesture that was roiling her office and asked me what I thought. The picture was of a 10-by-3-inch sticker, openly affixed to an employee’s desk, stating “Make America Blue Collar Again” in big red, white and blue block letters.

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Letters — Your Voice — May 2

whtnone — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Praise for lawmakers who passed e-cigs bills

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Letters — Your Voice — May 1

whtnone — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Has the county given up on fighting coqui frogs?

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Letters — Your Voice — April 30

whtnone — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Putting trucking for Honua Ola in perspective

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The Founders built safeguards. Our politics rendered them useless

whtnone — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 were students of history, and it taught them a singular lesson: power corrupts, and unchecked power can destroy a republic.

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Letters to the Editor for April 28

whtnone — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

There are many instances of president’s overreach

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Another bird-brained idea from Trump

whtnone — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

President Donald Trump’s latest fantastic notion is to repurpose Alcatraz Island, one of the National Park Service’s most popular historical sites, as the remote, isolated California prison it used to be.

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Democracy must not be defined by gerrymandered districts

whtnone — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The razor-thin outcome in Virginia’s recent redistricting referendum, which allowed the state to move forward with a heavily gerrymandered map favoring Democrats, should serve as a national wake-up call. When margins are so narrow, every structural advantage matters. And few advantages are more powerful or more corrosive than gerrymandering.

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Winning rural voters: A new Democratic strategy

whtnone — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The Democratic Party cannot win in rural areas without clarifying — not changing — its position on the cultural issues that are so important in rural areas across the country.

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91ֱ�� can help end the corporate threat to democracy

whtnone — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

At this critical moment for American democracy, 91ֱ��’s Legislature and governor have a chance to lead. By passing Senate Bill 2471, they can begin to undo the damage caused by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

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Community First: ‘Know your numbers’

whtnone — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

While 91ֱ�� is often recognized as one of the healthiest states in the nation, the picture here on 91ֱ�� Island tells a different story. Our island faces higher rates of heart attacks, coronary heart disease, hypertension hospitalizations, and stroke deaths than the state overall. These realities highlight an urgent need for stronger prevention and early detection efforts across our communities.

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Obenski: Regarding education

whtnone — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Many object to paying for public schools because they have no child of their own to benefit. Did they not go to school? At no cost to them? Who paid for their education? Their parents and neighbors who paid school tax. You pay for your neighbor’s children’s education so that when they make change for you next year, they will know how. In the future, will they be able to fix your car, or fly your jetliner?

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Letters — Your Voice — April 24

Andy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Amend Bill 147 to protect housing for local residents

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Letters to the Editor for April 14

whtnone — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

District Court of 91ֱ�� doesn’t follow federal rules

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Do you too have a fear of not flying?

whtnone — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

I’m not averse to flying. I dislike the scowling security checks and inefficient bureaucracies at the airports much more than I’m afraid of turbulence or the potential for catastrophic mishaps. But the Gulf War has made me nervous over something else: the fear of not flying.

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Obenski: What Dictators Do

whtnone — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Hitler was motivated largely by his hate of Jews and his wish to completely eliminate the Jewish race. He was also attempting to take over and rule the entire world.

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Letters — Your voice — April 11

whtnone — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Proposed amendment to General Plan falls short

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After the flood, 91ֱ��’s real test begins

whtnone — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Across Oahu and other parts of 91ֱ��, recent flooding has left thousands of families displaced, 400 homes destroyed, many more damaged, and communities facing a long road to recovery. The economic toll exceeds $1 billion, with agricultural losses alone at $10 million. And 91ֱ�� is not alone: Across the Pacific, multiple tropical cyclones are currently churning through vulnerable island communities, underscoring how quickly disasters can cascade across the region.

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Support adult day care on 91ֱ�� Island

whtnone — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

91ֱ�� Island Adult Care (HIAC) opened its doors as the first adult day care center in January 1976, and it is currently the only one on the island. Adult day care helps kupuna stay at home, slows down dementia and memory loss, lowers hospital visits, and costs much less than home care or nursing homes.

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Letters — Your Voice — April 10

whtnone — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Investigate child abuse allegations against Trump

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Why water carrier bills deserve a pause

whtnone — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Currently, two bills relating to water carriers in the 91ֱ�� Legislature, Senate Bill 2694 and House Bill 2386, are moving forward, raising awareness and growing concern for businesses and community organizations.

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We shouldn’t treat Disney adults like cultural abominations

whtnone — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

If you’ve ever expressed even a passing desire to visit Disneyland in Anaheim, California, or Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, you may have had friends who raised their eyebrows, groaned or even sneered.

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US sanctions to hurt Cuban civilians violate the Geneva Conventions

whtnone — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

In the last year there have been a record number of legislative efforts to block military actions, threatened or carried out by the Trump administration, that are seen as illegal or unconstitutional. This has included President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war against Iran. Some of these efforts in Congress led to close votes in the House and Senate.

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A promising plan to spur housing gets wrecked by Congress

whtnone — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Among the few things that Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more. Regrettably, a once-promising effort in Congress intended to do just that now seems to be falling apart — a victim of populist politics gone awry.

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Farm to Family: A lifeline for 91ֱ�� Island

whtnone — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

On 91ֱ�� Island, a crisis of hunger is unfolding at the dinner tables of our friends and neighbors.

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Yuen: Don’t throw out years of work on General Plan

whtnone — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

The 91ֱ�� County General Plan is the most important document setting out the county’s priorities and policies for land use, growth and development.

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Letters — Your Voice — April 2

whtnone — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

More math ‘coaches’ won’t solve our math problems

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Letters — Your Voice — April 1

whtnone — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Regarding real estate sales commissions

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Letters to the Editor for March 31

whtnone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Here is your chance to help protect reef fish

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The world’s dumbest tariff has been revealed

whtnone — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

With the Iran war threatening supplies of critical, energy-intensive materials, one might assume the U.S. government was prepared for this risk and has been working hard to soften the blow. In the case of aluminum, that assumption would be incorrect. Instead, Washington is making things worse.

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When immigration rules keep changing, the system stops working

whtnone — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

For generations, the United States has framed legal immigration as a kind of social contract. Since 1965, when the Immigration and Nationality Act ended the national-origin quota system, the U.S. has formally opened legal immigration to people from around the world without racial or national-origin preferences.

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Leave animals alone

whtnone — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Encountering animals in nature — whether on a hiking trail, at the beach or in a neighborhood park—can be one of the most rewarding aspects of spending time outdoors.

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Obenski: Timing and impacts

whtnone — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

Most traffic crashes take place in about three seconds. That’s from the first harmful event until the impact.

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The story of the 91ֱ�� Island Fentanyl Task Force

whtnone — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:05:00 +0000

There is an ʻolelo noʻeau, or 91ֱ��an proverb, that has guided our work from the beginning.

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