Category: Editorials
Is Trump Manifesting a Second Gilded Age by Weakening Government, Supporting Privatization and Propping Up the Billionaire Tech Barons?
Americans should realize what Trump is doing – so called cutting waste, streamlining – in the name of “government efficiency” is an old excuse for more privatization and less government, which has been Republicans’ philosophical approach to leadership.
Who Will Pay for Increased Tariffs? You, the American Consumer! It’s Another Form of Taxation
Clearly, tariffs are not more beautiful than love. It’s not even beautiful. What tariffs will do is take money out of your pockets and make life more financially difficult than it already is for millions of Americans.
DOGE’s Disempowering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Harmful; We Need More Consumer Protection, Not Less
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said if the CFPB shuts down, “it’s open season on everyone who has a credit card, a mortgage, a car loan, a payday loan, a student loan, or uses an online financial app.”
Reject President Trump’s Plans to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens and End Birthright Citizenship
Many supported it and still do, but there are others coming to grips of what it really entails as deportation footage are cycling through social media and news reports.
Mass Deportation Is Not the Ethos of the Good Samaritan
It’s just logistically impossible to implement a process closer to a case-by-case review with mass deportation when millions are being targeted in a very short period.
We Need to Debate the Limits We Want For AI; It’s Here to Stay, But Can the Threats It Poses Be Controlled?
DeepSeek created an AI model that is purportedly significantly cheaper and can deliver similar results as the more expensive super processing chips used by American AI models.
We Are at A Tipping Point with Medical Debt and Bankruptcy that Americans Want Major Changes to Our Healthcare System
Many employers are not even offering health insurance in states where that’s allowed.
Let’s Pressure Trump to Keep His Promises on Lowering Inflation and Ending the War in Ukraine
Trump and his transition team have already been walking back some of these significant commitments that experts saw as unrealistic.
We Need to Finally Put an End to Illegal Fireworks – This Should Be the Lesson We Take From The Recent New Year’s Eve Tragedy
The New Year’s Eve fireworks accidental explosion in Aliamanu, Oahu that killed three women and injured dozens was bound to happen. For years illegal backyard [Read More…]
Recapping the Highs and Lows in 2024 Covered by Hawaii Filipino Chronicle, and A Happy New Year to All!
The presidential election and inflation topped events of 2024
