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How to legalize pot

Updated: May 22, 2013 12:05am

The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. Sure, he said, the government should remove...

Obama’s coolness backfires

Updated: May 22, 2013 12:06am

Cartoon for May 22

Updated: May 22, 2013 12:05am

Your Views for May 22

Updated: May 22, 2013 12:05am

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Your Views for May 5

Updated: May 05, 2013 12:06am

It’s a health issue

The Coalition for Tobacco-Free Hawaii (CTFH) and CTFH-East Hawaii Community Coalition give a big nod to the fifth anniversary of the ban of tobacco use at Hawaii County...

White House press corps is just awful

Updated: May 05, 2013 12:06am

By SHERMAN FREDERICK

Stephens Media

I dragged my Pacific Daylight Time, Las Vegas arse out of bed early Tuesday to watch President Barack Obama take questions from the national press...

Your Views for May 4

Updated: May 04, 2013 12:05am

Mahalo for aid

A big mahalo to the kind person or persons who came to my son Jon Patterson’s aid on Tuesday, March 5, and called 911.

He was traveling on Komohana Street when he felt a...

Bigfoot Martians joining the NRA

Updated: May 04, 2013 12:05am

By MATTHEW PATE

Stephens Media

Fans of the classic sci-fi drama, “The X-Files,” will recall the poster hanging in Fox Mulder’s office. It showed a grainy gray disk hovering above a...

Better to be prude or prudent?

Updated: May 04, 2013 12:05am

WASHINGTON — They lost me at the word “women.”

As so often happens with contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger)...

Cartoon for May 4

Updated: May 04, 2013 12:05am

The world as seen by cartoonist Mike Thompson, The Detroit Free Press

Cartoon for May 3

Updated: May 03, 2013 12:06am

The world as seen by cartoonist Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune

Mark Sanford’s comedy of errors

Updated: May 03, 2013 12:06am

WASHINGTON — In a congressional campaign ad released Wednesday, Mark Sanford, R-Appalachian Trail, looks soberly into the camera and makes his closing plea before Tuesday’s vote.

“Nancy...

Up close and personal with war on terror

Updated: May 03, 2013 12:06am

Living in the shadows of the ongoing war on terror are 1,715 American military people who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few of those brave folks lost all four limbs when bombs blew apart...

Your Views for May 3

Updated: May 03, 2013 12:06am

Show was a hit

A sincere salute and thanks to the many persons involved in the Palace Theater’s “Vaudeville Variety Show” this past weekend. It was a superb event — reminding us once again...