Editorial cartoon for Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Bill Belichick will not make the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year on the ballot, ESPN and The Athletic reported Tuesday.

Whether you’re walking or driving in town, through a park or along the coast, the images of poverty, desperation and loneliness are everywhere.

Seeing the problem of homelessness all around is one thing; trying to help people off the streets and into shelter is quite another. But the endless effort must start somewhere, and that’s with solid data quantifying the scope of the…

Kaiser nurses, pharmacists, anesthetists, therapists and other health-care providers represented by the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals in Hawaii and California launched an…

A recent “Island Voices” column makes a strong case for clean energy based on its cost advantage over fossil fuels (“Fossil fuels drive our high cost of living,” Star-Advertiser, Jan. 25). Clean energy also has the…

It’s surprising for a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize to present the award to an undeserving individual. What’s not surprising is that Donald Trump accepted the award from Maria Corina Machado.

As a concerned citizen of Hawaii, I am deeply disappointed with the Green administration’s persistent efforts to undermine our Second Amendment rights, as starkly exposed during the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in Wolford v.…