As I See It: The stuntman
A certain candidate has a history of attention getting -events that serve to get his face and name in the news many times a day. Free publicity! Most not quite as dramatic as Sept 16. Or July 13. The Golden Escalator, Deus ex machina (God from the machine) tactic was an early warning that as a candidate he would not play fair, but as it is said, all’s fair in love and war. Politics are a bloodless (almost) form of warfare. He blithely talks about shooting someone on 5th avenue. Free publicity!
BIIF volleyball: Warriors, Ka Makani and Bulls sweep
HILO — Waiakea girls volleyball opened its two-match homestand with its second consecutive straight-sets victory on Thursday in Hilo. The Warriors beat the visiting Kea‘au Cougars by scores of 25-10, 25-14 and 25-11. It was the seventh straight-sets win of the season for Waiakea.
Westside Stories: Just the facts
It was a real shock.
UN speeches reflect grim global realities
The world, warned President Joe Biden, is at an “inflection point.”
The Eric Adams indictment may be just the start of his problems
When a ship is going down, the rats begin to flee. The same is true when it comes to the downfall of a powerful public official.
Letters to the editor for October 1
Skeptical of jet fuel research plan
The unfair Electoral College: The Nebraska and Maine plan would be better provided every state divided their votes
Nebraska has long counted its electoral votes in presidential elections differently than almost every other state in the union. Forty-eight states are winner-take-all, meaning that the candidate who gets the most popular votes gets all of that state’s electoral votes. A single-vote victory in California or Texas or Florida or New York yields all those states’ 54 or 40 or 30 or 28 electoral votes, putting a candidate well on their way to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.
Voter ID would increase election integrity
Right now, Nevadans must show more identification to buy alcohol than to vote. Question 7 would change that.
Hulihia Ke Ola: A pathway to recovery
Big Island Substance Abuse Council’s Hulihia Ke Ola program on the Big Island is changing the landscape of substance abuse treatment.
Letters — Your voice — for September 26
‘Democrats need to dial back the hate’
Is the devil you know better than the devil you don’t when voting?
The 2024 election is shaping up to be a “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know” kind of contest.
Getting it right: Weinstein charges require careful prosecution
Since the avalanche of accusations against Harvey Weinstein in 2017, we’ve always suspected that there were probably more incidents of sexual misconduct against the former movie power player than were publicly acknowledged.
Trumponomics: From trickle-down to upside-down
Bring back voodoo economics!
Trump’s welcome SALT switch: Restore the tax break back to what it was
Donald Trump is a late convert to restoring the federal income tax deduction of state and local taxes (SALT) that were capped at $10,000 when he signed his big Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2018. But Trump’s support is still most welcome and his fellow Republicans in Congress should follow his lead. The current law is simply unfair.
Obenski: School shootings
Do we really need to terrify our children about school shootings? While JD Vance says that is just a fact of life, so is cancer. That does not mean we just accept it. Most people say we can and should do better, and we must.
Letters — Your voice — for September 19
Taxpayers will pay for county’s mistake
Westside Stories: Artificial intelligence
It won’t come as a surprise that Donald Trump is a robot.
Telegram CEO’s arrest smacks of empty posturing
The arrest in France of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has brought into sharp focus one of the major conflicts of our age. On one hand, we want privacy in our digital lives, which is why we like the kind of end-to-end encryption Telegram promises. On the other, we want the government to be able to stamp out repugnant online activities — like child pornography or terrorist plotting. The reality is that we can’t have our cake and eat it, too.
MAGA’s Trumpbilly Elegy
For the second time this summer, Americans have witnessed a presidential campaign debate unlike anything we’ve seen since the dawning of the Television Age.
Letters to the editor for September 17
The ‘scourge’ of roadside vendors
