The June 5 candidate filing deadline has come and gone, and after two redistricting plans and two legal challenges, we..
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This week: two rants plus a correction for the price of one column. What a deal. Rant No. 1. Over..
I recently took part in a media panel at the annual meeting of the Hawaii Crop Improvement Association. I shared..
Former Big Island state Sen. Richard “Scotchy” Henderson had the best line at the recent state Republican convention. It was..
“Kirk Caldwell’s Listening Tour” stopped at Waimalu Elementary School cafeteria on a recent Tuesday evening. It enjoyed all the benefits..
In P.F. Kluge’s new novel, The Master Blaster (Overlook Press, $26.95), the title character runs a website devoted to exposing..
Certain words strike terror in Honolulu hearts. Some of these words refer to places, others to things, still others to..
Here’s what we know. On Sat., Aug. 11, primary elections will be held in the state of Hawaii, and on..
The Aloha Chapter of the American Inns of Court held its annual meeting last week. The venue was Waialae Country..
Laura Thielen wants to run for the state Senate as a Democrat. The Central Committee of the Democratic Party has..
In their March 13 caucuses, Hawaii’s Republicans opted for Mitt Romney as their candidate for President. Since then, Romney’s taken..
Every political candidate has a stump speech. He or she gives it ad nauseum in the course of a long..
Cars filled the Highlands Intermediate School parking lot at 6 p.m. last Tuesday night as local Republicans met in caucus..
The last time Hawaii’s Republicans made news in an election year was in 1988, when at their precinct meetings the..
Editors’s note: For a slightly different take on this important topic, see David Chang’s column on Page 28. Call this..
U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye arrived home last week, toured the news outlets, announced that Hawaii would be home to..
Numbers tell the story, and last week’s StarAdvertiser/Hawaii News Now “Hawaii Poll” told several of them. Consider, for example, why..
That sorry excuse for football called the Pro Bowl is behind us. So too the betting man’s idea of heaven:..
They were talking to two very different audiences last week: Neil Abercrombie to a house full of friends, the 67..
It was, as it was a year ago, film noir at last week’s opening of the 2012 state legislative session:..
