How the constant thrum of media is shaping our world and why that matters in Hawaiʻi.

A bill moving at the Hawaiʻi Legislature proposes specific considerations when determining ability to afford bail.

They transformed Hawaii’s ecology, helping to spread disease that sickened native birds. Now they carry viruses deadly to humans.

Suicide was the leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 19.

It’s easy to call someone a NIMBY and undermine valid opposition rather than fully analyze a project’s long-term consequences.

Senate Bill 2471 presents a serious, carefully framed constitutional argument worthy of judicial review.

When two transactions lead to the same outcome, they should be treated the same under the tax code.

Pacific Resource Partnership has become a major player in the state’s most important political races.

By swapping an un-elected bureaucrat for scandal-tainted Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, Green has not solved the problem of leaving the leadership of the state to the political equivalent of a substitute teacher.

Politics, policy and public affairs as seen through the eyes of our political cartoonist.