NOT POLITICS AS USUAL
Tackling Our Social Issues From The Long View Of Community Values (Part 2 of 2)
Ida Yoshinaga
In Part 1 of this article (in the 7/17/20 Herald issue), I featured four outstanding women in the Japanese...
Hawaii Transitions to Vote-By-Mail
This year, Hawai‘i will transition to voting by mail, meaning that all registered voters will have a ballot mailed to them. Sandy Ma is the executive director of Common Cause Hawaii, a nonpartisan nonprofit...
Honolulu’s Mayoral Candidates: The Human Side
Editor’s Note: When preparing to vote for our next mayor, we might find it challenging to consider all the solutions proposed by candidates without first knowing the history and nature of the related problems...
Political Philosophy: Zen and Politics
The Way of Public Leadership
Bill Kaneko
Special to The Hawai‘i Herald
Engaging in the world of politics can be a treacherous endeavor. Personal attacks, self-interest, dirty tricks and political maneuvering detract from the reason why most...
Keith Amemiya For Mayor: New Leadership For Oahu
My name is Keith Amemiya and I’m running for Honolulu Mayor. After serving O‘ahu as a lawyer, nonprofit leader, and business executive for 30 years, I’m running for political office for the first time...
Colleen Hanabusa For Mayor: Okage Sama De
I was raised by my grandparents in a plantation home in the Japanese Wai‘anae Plantation Camp. My maternal great grandmother was the midwife for the plantation and my maternal grandfather was the plantation carpenter...
Mufi Hannemann For Mayor
The achievements of Americans of Japanese ancestry surround us: in their back-breaking toil as immigrant plantation workers ... the role of those workers in shaping the organized labor movement ... the courage and sacrifice...
Kim Coco Iwamoto For State House, District 26
I am yonsei. My maternal grandparents left Japan to grow cantaloupe in California. During World War II, my mother and her family were interned in Poston, Arizona. My uncles were eventually released to enlist in the...
Megan Kau For Prosecuting Attorney
Megan Kau has taken the most aggressive stance against crime. The most pressing issue is that crime has increased, and criminals have resorted to pushing our küpuna down in the street, leaving them to...
Earl Tsuneyoshi for Honolulu City Council, District 9
“Integrity, Transparency & Accountability must be at the core of a cultural change within Honolulu Hale to restore the trust of the people. We must do things for the right reasons or we will...
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