Op/Ed

If you haven’t seen the movie Cocaine Bear, you need not look past the title to know what it’s about. A bear does cocaine in the woods and wreaks havoc on the residents of a nearby town. The craziest part is, the movie is actually based on a true story. Way back when in 1985,…

There’s an old saying that politicians hate sex unless they’re the ones having it. Given the recent Arizona Supreme Court decision on abortion, handed down merely to appease the equally contemptible ghouls responsible for appointing the justices to such a high position, they’re pretty much outing themselves and proving that old saying to be true.…

More than two-thirds of U.S. states have some form of an equivalent to Hawaii’s annual vehicle safety inspections, whether it’s periodic brake checks or emissions testing. A few states require both safety and emissions checks, but not necessarily every year. Some others, like Montana and Florida, don’t require any sort of vehicle testing at all.…

Citing routine schedule changes and low demand, United Airlines discontinued its nonstop service from Hilo to Los Angeles in 2023. This left the Hilo International Airport, despite its name, without a flight to the mainland for the first time in more than a decade. The nonstop redeye to LAX had existed since 2011, with a…