Not a value ad: Google’s ad services monopoly needs to end
This week began the federal antitrust trial against Google for alleged monopolistic practices when it comes to the online advertising space, with the Justice Department contending that the company has outsize dominion over what is a lifeline for industries including online publishing. Google, of course, doesn’t see it that way.
Presidential race remains close after fiery debate
The reason both leading presidential candidates have favorability ratings under 50% was on full display during Tuesday’s presidential debate.
Letters — Your Voice — for September 14
More aloha needed for island’s animals
Letters — Your Voice — for September 11
Fear tactics and misinformation
Letters — Your Voice — for September 10
Vote for democracy, not ‘lies and lunacy’
Letters — Your voice — for September 7
Help map future of Hawaii Island
As I See It: Supreme Court conduct
There has been a lot of talk about an out-of-control Supreme Court. The court has embarrassed itself, historically (as in Dred Scott) and recently.Two justices have embarrassed the court by accepting outrageous gifts, i.e., millions of dollars. Clarence Thomas, from Harlan Crow, and Samuel Alito from Paul Singer. There is no convincing evidence that these gifts were simple hospitality like an invitation to dinner or a wedding, for which there would normally be some sort of informal reciprocity. These two consistently opined in ways that favored the donor, in some way politically and possibly financially. Persons of great wealth have affairs so intertangled that their interests can be hard to track.
Letters — Your voice — fo September 4
Trump and the right-wing media
Council bill could ease housing shortage
The Hawaii County Council is on the cusp of advancing a bill that would let everyday folks play a major role in reducing the island’s housing shortage.
Fight against families: States get federal judge to endanger mixed-status couples
Texas Federal Judge J. Campbell Barker, appointed by Donald Trump in 2019, has frozen a Biden administration policy that could have helped some half-million undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens get legal status. Hopefully, Barker’s stay will not be staying.
A vague, vacuous TV interview didn’t help Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris didn’t hurt herself in her interview Thursday with CNN’s Dana Bash. She didn’t particularly help herself, either.
Workers are not better off than they were 4 years ago
The perennial question in presidential elections is, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” For American workers, the answer is, lately, not so much. Too many workers are not better off. Inflation has wiped out average wage gains, unemployment is higher than before, and people face looming Biden policies hostile to freelance work.
The loneliness epidemic has a cure
What is the most important single thing that you can do to heal our national divides and to improve the social and economic mobility of your struggling neighbors?
Letters — Your voice — for August 31
V2H can improve your self-sufficiency
Westside Stories: Good times, bad times, we’ve had ‘em all
Things always turn out fine in the end.
Letters — Your voice — for August 29
Shocked by spike in insurance price
Harris and Trump shouldn’t pander to the crypto crowd
The good news is that business interests are getting support during an election year. The bad news is that the business is crypto. Less than two years after the industry’s highest-profile political donor was exposed as a criminal, the lure of campaign donations from the digital-money crowd is once again proving irresistible.
Gus Walz brought out both the joy and the cruelty
Gus Walz’s unbridled emotional reaction last week at the Democratic National Convention to the nomination of his father, Gov. Tim Walz, embodied both the humanity that lies beneath the political process and the momentousness of the political process itself.
Nancy Pelosi, mother of dragons
Nancy Pelosi has spent a month coyly trying not to take credit for ringing down the curtain on the half-century run of a prolix play called “Scranton Joe.”
