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Got “sleep issues”? Don’t feel alone. According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, sleep disorders affect an estimated 50 million to 70 million Americans. While roughly one in five adults has a chronic sleep disorder, nearly half of adults over age 65 experience chronic sle
by Manfred Henningsen Editors Note: This commentary is the latest in a series on the current German elections by our in house foreign policy expert, Manfred Henningsen. The political posters above depict the Fischbrötchen (fish sandwich) with the slogan “Die Mitte ist das Beste” which translates as: “The middle is the
Hawaii has no shortage of celebrity property owners. What I mean is that there are famous people who own property — sometimes a lot of property — here in Hawaii even though said famous people might not live here. You might have heard of Larry Ellison or Mark Zuckerberg or Oprah Winfrey. Maybe even Roseanne […] The post
by Russell Price There has always been a need for folks to assure themselves, in some way, that their prized possessions remain undisturbed where they are stored, whether in a box, a safe, a room, or even a vault. As a rule, traditional monitoring measures require elaborate infrastructure: alarm systems tied into an ar
by Manfred Henningsen The success of the right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) in the recent state election in one of the former states of Communist East Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, has created nervous questions about the political future of Germany and the European Union (EU). There will be elections in two
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Friends of the East-West Center’s ‘Ohana Program, a distinctly Hawaiʻi approach to international friendship. Launched in 1966 as a “host family” program, its first year matched 151 East-West Center grantees with 111 local families who offered students a home away from home du
Here in Hawaii, it’s a big deal for the state to have a stable source of revenue. Tax lawsuits have the potential to tie that revenue up, so here, as well as in many other states, there are quirky rules that could turn out to be real traps that could cost you your money even […] The post Getting into Tax Court appeared
If anyone can legitimately have claimed to have lived A Jungian Life it would be Thomas B. (aka Tom) Kirsch. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Jungian DNA oozed from his pores. Full disclosure, I knew Tom very well. We were cousins and visited each other regularly. The son of renowned Jungian analysts James an
This week’s article comes from a tip from one of our very alert constituents. It concerns one of the special funds set up in the City Charter of Honolulu that is fed automatically by an earmark on property tax revenues. We spoke about them a few weeks ago. Today’s topic of discussion is the Clean […] The post Save Ala
It’s time to Give Aloha at Foodland: September 1-30 2026! In addition to encouraging customers to donate up to $249 to their favorite participating nonprofits – like the Tax Foundation of Hawaii – at checkout, customers are also encouraged to contribute to the Give Aloha matching gift in the following ways: Funds raise
One of the new features in the tax landscape wrought by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is a program called Education Freedom Tax Credits. The program supports scholarships for American students, but in a very indirect way. It supports scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs), 501(c)(3) nonprofits that give out scholar
Sydney Ross Singer Medical Anthropologist Director, Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease sydsinger@gmail.com (Note: This article was first published in October 24, 2007, and was updated September 12, 2026.) 9/12/2026 “Whom can you trust when your culture is the biggest enemy of your health? Can you trust you
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