I once suggested to Hawaii’s revered U.S. Senator Dan Inouye that every newly-elected member of Congress should be required to take a cross country train en route to first assuming...

I don’t know if there’s ever been an actual scientific survey, but I’m quite sure that most people riding across the country on an Amtrak train will say what they...

Hawaii’s much-revered U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye was a very low-key guy and it was often hard to know what he was really thinking. Once, back in the late ’90s,...

Dan Inouye has died. He was 88. He was probably never fully appreciated outside of Hawaii, but Dan’s an icon here.  War hero who lost his right arm in Italy....