I spent 40 years at the University of Hawaii: six at Manoa as a teaching assistant and instructor, 34 at..

A family wedding has preoccupied me the past few weeks, so I’ve fallen behind in keeping my valued readers current..

Congressional Republicans recently passed on President Barack Obama’s offer of $4 trillion in cuts in federal spending over the next..

Sixteen months separate us from general election day 2012, but political storm clouds stretch from Hawaii to upstate New York...

The elections of November 1868 were run under a congressional Civil War reconstruction plan that enabled newly freed former slaves..

Don’t look now, but Hawaii’s election year 2012 has begun, a full year and half before general election day. Oh,..

As a result of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, more than 11,000 bodies have been recovered and the final..

When I last talked to House Finance chairman Marcus Oshiro about a biennium budget it was 2008. Republican Linda Lingle..

On the Feb. 24 Insights on PBS Hawaii, U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye said that “If he (Daniel Akaka) should..

A tune from my long-ago youth has been running through my head lately. I suppose it’s from watching unionized state..