Understanding ‘logos’ — The power of words
As the dust settles on another contentious election cycle, Americans are left to ponder the lasting impact of the countless speeches delivered by those vying for our votes. These orations, often derided as mere “campaign rhetoric,” are, in fact, far more profound. They represent a timeless exercise of the ancient concept of “logos” — the art of using words to paint vivid pictures, conjure entire worlds and shape the very course of our nation.
Why grade inflation is spreading from high school to college — and how it hurts learning
This might sound impossibly old-fashioned, but I still like the idea that education is about learning: facts, skills, concepts, research, culture, analysis, inspiration. It’s supposed to enrich our lives and make us better citizens and independent thinkers.
Tuesday’s election showed the democratic system works
Whether Wednesday morning brought jubilation or despair, American voters should agree that the nation’s electoral system worked. President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping victory came remarkably smoothly on Election Day. While there was some isolated trouble at polling places across the country, voting to a vast degree was orderly, safe and convenient, which should underscore public confidence in the result.
Americans voted for Trump. Here’s what they chose — and the hope for all those who didn’t
Much will be studied, analyzed and written for years to come about why Americans voted an openly authoritarian leader back into power in apparently greater margins than they did eight years ago. What’s clearer and more important at this moment is what millions of our fellow citizens did by putting Donald Trump back in the White House.
Letters — Your voice — for November 9
Retailer should stop selling Australian fern
Don’t delay on cutting permit delays
Building permit delays create headaches for everyone.
Letters — Your voice — for November 6
Questioning security of mail-in voting
Mainstream media has hit rock bottom in 2024 election
The 2024 election marks the collapse of the mainstream media as we know it.
When every election is the ‘most important election of our lives’
Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.”
Biowearables are the future of personalized health care
People are hungry for information about their bodies. Nearly one-third of Americans don smartwatches and other wearable technology to measure things such as step counts, calories burned and heart rate, according to research published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.
San Francisco uses the ocean as its toilet and wants to flush a key environmental law
San Francisco has long used the Pacific Ocean as its toilet. In heavy rains, the city on the hill cannot store all the storm runoff and sewage that flows toward an oceanside treatment plant in a single old pipe, so some heads out to sea. Now, in a case with national implications, San Francisco is hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court will allow it to pollute the ocean on occasion without violating the federal Clean Water Act.
Poor Americans disproportionately crushed by Biden-Harris inflation
All Americans are facing rising prices under the Biden-Harris administration, despite its claim that it’s “fighting to lower costs,” but the burden of soaring costs falls disproportionately on low-income families.
As I See It: Social media
The authors of the Constitution were brilliant. Sure, they did not get it perfect, but they did it in 87 days with no computers. Nowadays we can’t draft a dog license bill in a year. James Madison is considered the author of the Bill of Rights but he was not satisfied with the final document so he pushed for the bill of rights to include “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” Apparently, Justice Samuel Alito was unaware of the Ninth Amendment when he ruled that there was no right to abortion in the Constitution.
Letters — Your voice — for November 2
Road maintenance lacking in Kohala
Westside Stories: Give and not judge
‘It hurts so bad, I know that toe’s infected.’
THIS IS PLACEHOLDER TEXT
Jet fuel project
4 lessons from 9 years of being ‘Never Trump’
I’ve been wrong about many things, but here are two of the bigger whiffs of my professional life.
Democrats strategize to block Trump from taking Oval Office
Hypocritical Democrats are quietly girding and strategizing for a post-election court fight to block Donald Trump from taking office and refusing to fully commit to certifying the election in the event of a Republican win.
Kamala Harris came out strong Wednesday night in her CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper and an audience of undecided voters in Pennsylvania’s Delaware County. She began by citing the testimony of Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, along with his national security advisers, his secretaries of defense, his chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his vice president — all of whom have spoken of his unfitness to serve as president.