What climate change? As South Florida sizzles, DeSantis chooses denial with new law
This month has already proven be one for the records — the hottest May ever documented in Miami, based on the heat index, a “feels like” measure that accounts for temperature and humidity. The index this past weekend peaked at a staggering 112 degrees, the Herald reported Tuesday.
US, allies must stop playing ‘Patriot games’ with Ukraine
After I questioned Israel’s endgame in Gaza in my previous column, a reader asked, “Do you know what President Joe Biden’s endgame is in Ukraine?”
Supreme Court ruling ensures veterans will receive education benefits
An Army veteran from Virginia recently won a nearly nine-year battle with the Department of Veterans Affairs over access to education benefits accrued through his service, a 7-2 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that favors those who volunteer to fight for this country.
Fasten your seat belts, folks. Turbulence is everywhere
All frequent flyers have heard the pilot’s admonition, which usually goes something like this: “We recommend you keep your seat belts fastened while you are in your seats, just as we do in the cockpit. Unexpected turbulence can occur at any time.”
Wait times go down. Patient satisfaction goes up. What’s the matter with letting apps and AI run the ER?
My resident describes our next emergency room patient — a 32-year-old female with severe, crampy mid-abdominal pain, vomiting and occasional loose stools. The symptoms have been present for nearly a week, and there is tenderness to both sides of the upper abdomen. It could be a gallbladder problem, the resident says, hepatitis, pancreatitis, diverticulitis or an atypical appendicitis. She proposes routine blood tests along with an ultrasound and an abdominal CT scan.
Senate Bill 1035: A win for access to health care
The passage of Senate Bill 1035 is a vital step forward in fostering a sustainable economic environment for Hawaii’s private practice doctors and dentists, and while this achievement has garnered widespread support across the state, it was the advocacy and leadership from Hawaii Island that were crucial to its success.
Nikki Haley shows us who she really is: a coward
Nikki Haley was once perceived by many Republicans as their hope for redeeming a party that had been taken over by a morally corrupt, lying and craven narcissist. Donald Trump, she declared, exhibited “everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten.”
The spread of bird flu should be a wake-up call: Eating animals is killing us all
If you’re not already concerned about bird flu, you should be. The virus has now been found in at least 51 dairy herds in nine states as well as on countless bird and egg farms in the U.S. At least two humans have been infected in the U.S.
Flying is getting more turbulent. Airlines better buckle up
Tens of thousands of flights take off and land without incident every day, all around the world. So when something tragic does happen, the world’s eyes become glued to the story — especially if it reveals the deadly side of an extremely common flight experience.
The viral defiance of Jasmine Crockett
Why, exactly, was Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dig at Jasmine Crockett’s fake eyelashes so upsetting?
Westside Stories: Good times at old Hilo college
Graduation time again.
Letters to the editor for Thursday, May 23, 2024
Plavix lawsuit is a win for Hawaii
China embraced electric vehicles. The US didn’t. Now we’re paying the price
For shoppers who want to buy an electric car but have been put off by the steep price tag, the news last week that President Joe Biden has hiked tariffs on Chinese-made EVs to shut them out of the U.S. market is not good.
Will Iran ever change? The death of President Ebrahim Raisi and the terror regime continues
When more than 100 Iranians were murdered and hundreds of others were injured by suicide terrorists in January, President Ebrahim Raisi said: “We tell the criminal America and Zionist regime that you will pay a very high price for the crimes you have committed and will regret it.” But neither the U.S. nor Israel (the aforementioned Zionist regime) had anything to do with the atrocity of killing pilgrims mourning the death of terror master Qasem Soleimani, a general of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who the Pentagon justly dispatched in 2020.
AI and privacy rules meant for Big Tech could hurt small businesses most
As lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. consider policy born of their Big Tech concerns such as data privacy and artificial intelligence, they should carefully consider how such changes could end up trampling the small and midsize businesses that drive innovation and competition.
We sued OpenAI to stop its exploitation of our published work
There is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge.
Letters to the editor for Wednesday, May 22, 2024
A thousand ‘Janets’ but very little help
More delusional nonsense on inflation from Biden
Inflation envelops the White House like a bad smell. Perhaps that’s one reason President Joe Biden can’t stop fibbing about it.
Letters to the editor for Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Making the case for ‘third candidate’
Trump and Big Oil are a match made in climate hell
If you are still uncertain about Donald Trump’s stance on climate change, then the fact that fossil-fuel companies are helping to pay his legal bills should clear it up.