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EDITORIAL: Adjust deportation model as needed

The most sure-fire way to assess the effectiveness — and unintended consequences — of a broad policy such as immigration enforcement is to watch it…

HOOSER: What can we do, Gary?

I get the question every single day. The question, of course, is “What can we do to make our government (island, state, world) a better…

EDITORIAL: Proposed SNAP cuts intolerable

The Hawai‘i Foodbank, the state’s largest hunger-relief nonprofit, has some startling facts at hand. Its 2023 study showed nearly 1 in 3 Hawaii households are…

EDITORIAL: Kaula bombings need fuller review

Some activities call out more loudly for careful environmental review than others. A Navy proposal to double down on bombing and strafing a small island…

EDITORIAL: Keep Job Corps alive to help many

At a time when Americans are seriously concerned with providing more opportunities for those who don’t attend college, why “pause” the help provided by Job…

HOOSER: ‘Doing Politics’

There’s lots of ways to serve, and lots of ways to help make the world a better place – but you gotta show up, you…