Category: Editorials
2021 State Legislature Was A Budgetary Success
Perhaps the 2021 State Legislature could be summed up as this: “It did no harm.” Leading into the session, a massive state budget deficit awaited [Read More…]
Let’s Rebuild, But Rebuild with Ingenuity That Includes Infrastructure to Keep People From Falling to Poverty
Poverty eradication suffered major setbacks as new studies show the economic fallout from COVID-19 has added 8 million new poor nationally, those who now fall [Read More…]
Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act; It Benefits Everyone, Including Our Police Officers
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous quote “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” had special meaning when former police [Read More…]
Thank You, Simeon Acoba, Jr. For Your Exemplary Work and For Being A Role Model
Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. is one of those rare iconic individuals in our Filipino community who has influenced generations to enter law. Acoba is to [Read More…]
Biden’s Infrastructure Bill is the Kind of Boost Our Nation Needs
President Joe Biden’s decades-long experience in Washington DC is paying off, at least when it comes to his latest creation the Build Back Better Plan [Read More…]
The Violence Against AAPI Communities Must Stop
The first fact that everyone should be aware of that has fueled much of the recent hate and violence against the Asian American and Pacific [Read More…]
Enough Is Enough! Pass a Federal Gun Control Bill
Within a month and just days apart two mass killings — one in Atlanta Georgia, eight dead, including six Asians and another in Boulder, Colorado, [Read More…]
Raising Taxes at This Time Would Be Harmful
Hawaii Republicans against the variety of tax increase bills currently at the Hawaii State Legislature owe a big thank you to Democrat lawmakers in the [Read More…]
Pass H.R.1 For the People Act to Protect Our Voting System
Whichever side of the political fence you stand, both Republicans and Democrats should be sharing the collective victory that in the 2020 elections, voter turnout [Read More…]
Filipino-Americans Demand Answers And Justice to the Police Killing of Angelo Quinto
“Please don’t kill me.” “Please don’t kill me” — these were the last few words that Angelo Quinto said before being forced to the ground [Read More…]
