Editorial
Beam Us Up, Scotty: There’s No Intelligent Life Here A hidden agenda? Many people who oppose the notion that a spaceport should be built in Ka’u have claimed that there is a “hidden agenda” in the state’s undying efforts to … Continued
Editorial: Restoration, Not Condemnation: Hawai'i Has No Land to Spare
The Kamaka family land in the back of Waikane Valley is not the first military site left littered with unexploded ordnance. Nor, surely, will it be the last. For almost a century and especially in the last fifty years – … Continued
Editorial: Time's Up: State's Infatuation with Geothermal Can't Go On
Is geothermal energy ever going to work in Hawai`i? Given the so-far failed efforts to harness this resource, the question is long overdue. Still, however, it is off-limits in the orbits of most state and county officials. A chorus of … Continued
Editorial: The DOT's Coy Religion Wins No Converts
The Department of Transportation has got religion — and a peculiar one it is, at that. We’re not talking about any orthodox faith here. It’s not shared by the traditional advocates of the tourism industry, whose high priests and bishops … Continued
Editorial: Stop, Thief: Those Are Our Resources
Hawai`i is a state abundant in laws intended to guarantee public rights that in other states have been eroded by private development. On the books, therefore, are statutes enshrining the public’s right to coastal access and reserving to the public … Continued
Editorial: In the Politics of Waste, Recycling takes the Hindmost
In July of 1990, the small windward community of Lanikai, O’ahu, bade farewell to its homegrown recycling program and welcomed the offer of the City and County of Honolulu to take over with once-a-week curbside pickup. The Lanikai Association had … Continued