essays, analysis, opinion

The Covid pandemic has revealed how identification is a critical government service.

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Essays

It's Time For The DOE To Take The Lead On Food And Education

By Nancy Redfeather, Debbie Millikan · September 12, 2021 · 9 min read

Let's Create An Urban Forest Network Of Native Plants

By Travis Idol, Heather Simmons, Paul Arinaga, Hilary Parkinson · August 22, 2021 · 7 min read

Ranked Choice Voting Will Improve Hawaii's Elections

The process allows candidates favored most by a majority of voters to win political races. The Legislature should move forward with one of the bills it allowed to languish last session.

By Civil Beat Editorial Board · October 3, 2021 · 7 min read

Here’s An Affordable Housing Plan That’s Already Working

By Kenna StormoGipson · September 3, 2021 · 8 min read

Climate Change Calls For Systems Change: Blue Planet's Waypoints One Year In

By Jeff Mikulina, Melissa Miyashiro · August 15, 2021 · 9 min read

Columns

Danny De Gracia: Hawaii's Broken Political System Is The Real Emergency

October 18, 2021 · 5 min read

Danny De Gracia: UH Football's Safe Again? It's Time To Open Up The Capitol

October 11, 2021 · 5 min read

Danny De Gracia: Hawaii Is Falling Apart. Let's Make Tourism Pay To Fix It

October 4, 2021 · 5 min read

Danny De Gracia: Why It's Important To Tell Ghost Stories During A Pandemic

September 27, 2021 · 5 min read

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Peter Apo: A Different Model For Hawaii Tourism Based On Community

October 18, 2021 · 6 min read

Peter Apo: Hawaiians Must Agree On The Meaning Of Sovereignty To Achieve It

September 26, 2021 · 8 min read

Peter Apo: Aloha Is Hawaii Law, A Global Brand And A System Of Positive Behavior

August 6, 2021 · 6 min read

Peter Apo: How To Manage Hawaii Tourism For The Future

July 28, 2021 · 7 min read

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Lee Cataluna: Goodbye Forever To Salad Bars, Sweaty Gyms And Office Popcorn

October 17, 2021 · 5 min read

Lee Cataluna: Candidates For LG May Find The Game Has Changed

October 13, 2021 · 5 min read

Lee Cataluna: Covid Fatigue Can Be As Brutal As The Virus

October 10, 2021 · 5 min read

Lee Cataluna: 'Fans In The Stands' For UH Athletics May Finally Signal The Pandemic's End

October 6, 2021 · 5 min read

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Neal Milner: Working Through Intractable Conflict Is The Nation's Only Way Forward

October 14, 2021 · 11 min read

Neal Milner: Struggling To Hang On In Hawaii? It's OK To Go

September 30, 2021 · 6 min read

Neal Milner: When Aloha Becomes A Cudgel

September 16, 2021 · 6 min read

Neal Milner: How To Make Democracy Work The Way It's Supposed To

September 9, 2021 · 6 min read

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Denby Fawcett: Ua Kuhi Pololei ʻO ‘The White Lotus’ I Nā Mea Like ʻOle E Pili Ana Iā Hawaiʻi -- A He ʻOkoʻa Hou Nō Ia

October 14, 2021 · 16 min read

Denby Fawcett: Covid-19 Can't Be Wiped Out But It Can Be Managed

October 12, 2021 · 5 min read

Denby Fawcett: These Beautiful Birds Spreading On Oahu Are Loud, Fruit-Stealing, Pooping Menaces

October 5, 2021 · 9 min read

Denby Fawcett: 'The White Lotus' Gets Many Things Right About Hawaii -- For A Change

September 28, 2021 · 9 min read

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Eric Stinton: Forget TikTok, Let's Talk About What Schools Should Be

October 12, 2021 · 6 min read

Eric Stinton: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

September 13, 2021 · 5 min read

Eric Stinton: More Money Is Not The Only Way We Can Help Teachers

August 30, 2021 · 7 min read

Eric Stinton: Of Course Student-Athletes Should Have To Be Vaccinated

August 9, 2021 · 7 min read

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Chad Blair: Ed Case Draws A Challenger From The Left

October 11, 2021 · 7 min read

Chad Blair: Do We Really Want Deadly Drones Based In Hawaii?

October 5, 2021 · 6 min read

Chad Blair: How Water In Hawaii Became A Matter Of Public Trust

September 3, 2021 · 7 min read

Chad Blair: Why Would Anyone Want To Be Governor Of Hawaii?

September 2, 2021 · 5 min read

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Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Don't Raise The Hawaiian Flag In The Name Of Rejecting Vaccines

September 23, 2021 · 3 min read

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Why Hawaii's Best Future Is Female

September 17, 2021 · 3 min read

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: A Wave Of Entitled Tourists Shows The Need For Action

August 10, 2021 · 4 min read

Trisha Kehaulani Watson: Working Through The Endless Pandemic

August 2, 2021 · 4 min read

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Editorials and Interviews

The Civil Beat Editorial Board Interview: UH Astronomy’s Greg Chun And Doug Simons

October 3, 2021 · 22 min read

The Civil Beat Editorial Board Interview: City Council Leaders Tommy Waters And Esther Kiaʻāina

September 19, 2021 · 27 min read

The Civil Beat Editorial Board Interview: Tourism Executive Mufi Hannemann

July 18, 2021 · 27 min read

The Civil Beat Editorial Board Interview: State Auditor Les Kondo

July 8, 2021 · 19 min read

Get The Community More Involved In Hiring The Next Honolulu Police Chief

July 2, 2021 · 4 min read

The Legislature Is Right To Mandate Public Disclosure Of COVID-19 In Schools

June 25, 2021 · 5 min read

More Editorials and Interviews

Political Cartoons

John Pritchett: Garden Variety

By John Pritchett · October 17, 2021

John Pritchett: Game Birds

By John Pritchett · October 10, 2021

John Pritchett: Congressman's Travels

By John Pritchett · October 3, 2021

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Videos

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IDEAS Live: Is Hawaii's Tourism Broken And Where Do We Go From Here?

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IDEAS Live: Global Perspectives On Tourism, Part I

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IDEAS Live: How Can We Improve Hawaii's Ocean Waters

01:18:31

IDEAS Live: Should UH Offer A Criminal Justice Degree?

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IDEAS Live: Power To The People

Community Voices

To Leave Hawaii And Yet Not Forget

A return home is a reminder of one’s obligations to family and mentors.

By Victoria Fan · October 18, 2021 · 4 min read

Ernest Hemingway, Robert Louis Stevenson And The Hau Tree Lanai

By Keith Rollman · October 12, 2021 · 5 min read

Preserving Hawaii’s Biodiversity Is Up To Us

By Jon Letman · October 4, 2021 · 5 min read

Plan To Ration Health Care Should Be Dead On Arrival

By Gene Ward · September 28, 2021 · 3 min read

How The ‘Build Back Better’ Plan Saves Money And Lives

By Will Caron · September 27, 2021 · 4 min read

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