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 on Hawaiian Western Steel
As the Public Is Poisoned, State Casts its Lot with Polluter Will they get away with it? “They” are Hawaiian Western Steel and Campbell Estate. “It” is the indisputable record of crimes against the environment and the public compiled during … 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