Letter: Trump win reveals majority’s problem

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Majority rule does not necessarily mean effective rule. Read more

Letter: Slow down, focus to prevent auto collisions

• Dec. 21, 2024
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Help prevent Honolulu vehicle collisions and save a life. Read more

Letter: Native plants belong in UH-Manoa campus mall

• Dec. 21, 2024
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Plans to update UH Manoa’s mall should include the planting of native species. Read more

Letter: Trash along freeways spoil island paradise

• Dec. 21, 2024
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Letter: Remember WWII impact on Japanese Americans

• Dec. 20, 2024
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Why wasn’t it covered widely in America? My ancestors were demolished in Hiroshima, so I’m taking your silence very personally, America. Read more

Letter: Was airlift of dog from trail really necessary?

• Dec. 20, 2024
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While we can rejoice in the safe return of Tonka, one must ask at what price. Read more

Letter: Reconsider costly sewer treatment plant upgrade

• Dec. 20, 2024
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The Sand Island plant has been discharging primary treated wastewater since 1979 approximately two miles offshore to a depth of 240 feet. Read more

Letter: Use Superfund to clean up land used by military

• Dec. 20, 2024
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Open land in Hawaii is scarce, and our government should do everything within its power to preserve it. Read more

Letter: Teach state’s 2nd official language in schools

• Dec. 20, 2024
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Since Hawaiian is an official language for Hawaii, shouldn’t it be taught in our schools? Read more

Letter: U.S. government upheaval threatens new Dark Age

• Dec. 19, 2024
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Corporate billionaires are drooling over the spoils they expect to gain. Read more

Letter: Biden tries to pull fast one on American public

• Dec. 19, 2024
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The Biden administration is planning to rush the last of over $6 billion remaining in Ukraine security assistance out the door by Inauguration Day. Read more

Letter: Go woke and open eyes to victimization, injustice

• Dec. 19, 2024
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Members of the LGBTQ community are often victims of social injustice. Read more

Letter: Siting landfill above an aquifer is clear problem

• Dec. 19, 2024
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The problem with the new site is obvious. Read more

Letter: Stop the fearmongering, switch on nuclear power

• Dec. 19, 2024
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One nuclear plant supplying all of Oahu could be built long before Hawaii’s unlikely 2045 goal of 100% renewable power even comes close. Read more

Letter: ‘Dead language’ remark offensive, discriminatory

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Such a statement is discriminatory and reflects the colonialism of Hawaii’s history — that white America prevails with assimilation and land dispossession. Read more

Letter: Isle exodus is existential threat to all Hawaiians

• Dec. 18, 2024
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More than half of Hawaiians now live outside Hawaii. This reality raises an urgent question: What happens to a lahui oiwi (ethnic group) when its people are disconnected from their ancestral home? Read more

Letter: Trump reign could spell disaster for democracy

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Well done, America. In an electoral choice between democracy and freedom and anger, fear and hate, you chose the latter. Read more

Letter: Fixing economy is easy, just roll back Biden snafu

• Dec. 18, 2024
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Fixing the economy and inflation is simple and easy. Read more