1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (940+ words) “It’s a cultural thing, especially in a small, agricultural community,” said Kimeona Kane, who would jump into the bed of a pickup truck as a kid to get to baseball or football practice. Nothing felt more like island life than…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (385+ words) The Selma-to-Montgomery marches galvanized passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which did away with most barriers such as poll taxes and other forms of voter discrimination targeting Black Americans in the Deep South. One of the lei-bearers was Charles…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1711+ words) More than 500,000 drivers sped through Honolulu intersections during a five-month trial of speed enforcement cameras last year and got stern warnings in the mail. But now that camera enforcement has formally begun, hardly anyone has been ticketed for speeding. The…...