Category: Editorials
How Right-wing Extremism Was A Major Part of Almost All the Top News of 2021
A repeat of the previous year, 2021 was defined by impacts related to the ongoing pandemic. It could also be summarized as another year of [Read More…]
Biden’s First Year in Office: Certainly Not Transitional, But Not Transformational
President Joe Biden’s first-year performance was not transformational by standards set by the left, meaning that he failed to deliver on key improvements to and [Read More…]
Families Might Be Apart This Christmas, But Enjoy the Holiday and Keep in Mind There Is Always Next Year
Most Generation X Filipinos are children of immigrant parents who came into the U.S. in the later half of 1960s to 1970s. Filipino Gen-Xers were [Read More…]
The Red Hill Water Contamination Crisis Could Have Been Averted, The Navy and Our Leaders Put the Public at Unnecessary Risk
Hawaii residents was jolted by one of the biggest news to close out this year – the water contamination crisis at Red Hill. The U.S. [Read More…]
Merry Christmas, Maligayang Pasko! Be Safe and Enjoy Our Pasko Traditions
It is a sacred time of the year again as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and contemplate God’s presence in our life. It’s [Read More…]
Scammers Love the Holidays Too, Protect Yourself and Your Money
This Christmas holiday shopping season opened with a spate of smash-and-grab burglaries in many cities across the nation. High-end to main street stores and big [Read More…]
We’re Thankful for Progress in Containing Covid; And for Reaching Our 28th Anniversary
Thanksgiving is in a few days and this year we’re grateful the pandemic is far more contained and less deadly than it was last year. [Read More…]
Democrats: Pass Medicare Price Negotiation or Suffer A Big Political Price – This Is What’s at Stake
As of press time, the US House is still fleshing out details to the Build Back Better (BBB) plan. Even though Democrats have majorities in [Read More…]
HFC Scholarship Aims to Build a Future with More Local Filipino Journalists
Last month, Filipinos and journalists around the world were ecstatic that veteran Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa was selected (along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov) as [Read More…]
Labor Shortage: A Challenge for Businesses, A Sign of Workers Reprioritizing Their Values
Hawaii’s unemployment rate made a huge recovery from 21.9% last spring to Sept. 2021’s 6.6% (still higher than the national average). In real numbers, this [Read More…]
