People always seem to be interested in hearing about Hawaii … what it’s like to have lived here for 55 years, as opposed to flying here from the mainland to...

  “Never turn you back on the ocean.” – Hawaiian Saying   Tourism industry officials in Hawaii have a problem: too many tourists are dying in accidents here. Of course,...

For years, Hawaii’s economy has been described as a three-legged stool: agriculture, the military, and tourism. But that’s changed. The military presence here is significant, of course, but not nearly...

Flying back to Maui from L.A. last Monday, I sat next to a big haole (white) guy, well into his 60s, who said he has visited Maui at least once...

My mainland friends think the weather here in Hawaii is perfect all the time. The truth is, it’s perfect most of the time in most places. Here on Maui, we...

This is a view up the windward coast of Maui taken from my Alaska Airlines flight on Saturday. It’s hazy from the “vog” (Volcanic Smog) we often get from the...

The Red Sox were in Detroit today. Game time was 1:00 p.m. back there and that meant 7:00 in the morning here. I was fixing my breakfast when the first...

 Sugar is no more. The last sugar plantation in the Hawaiian Islands was here on Maui and, after something like 140 years of 24-hour-a-day operation, the mill has shut down....

That’s a very common saying here in Hawaii. Locals learn it early because their parents preach it constantly when they’re at the beach. They know that they can be happily...

During most of the 1970s, I was in the Honolulu municipal government as head of the Office of Information and Complaint. I was appointed to the job by the mayor...