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“Going along to get along” leads to government corruption (external) , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 29, 2023. The Fundamental Problem is a Dysfunctional DOE , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Sept. 16, 2018 (with R. L’Heureux).Make Education Spending Transparent , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, May 23, 2018 (with J. Sosa and S. Terstegge).Why We Oppose the Proposed Education Tax , Civil Beat, Sept. 24, 2018 (with B. Cayetano).What Honolulu Rail Officials Know They Don’t Know (external) , Civil Beat, April 17, 2018 (with C. Slater).Transit Innovations Impel Shorter Rail , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Mar. 11, 2018 (with C. Slater).It’s Not Too Late to Build Rail Better (external) , Civil Beat editorial, Dec. 5, 2017.Special Session to Fund Rail , Hawaii Public Radio, Aug. 28, 2017 (with C. Slater).Rail Audit Needs to be Comprehensive, Independent (external) , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Aug. 24, 2017 (with C. Slater and P. Prevedouros).Dumb and Dumber: Why Honolulu Should Abandon Rail (external) , Civil Beat, April 27, 2017 (with C. Slater).Honolulu Rail Is Too Much, Too Late (external) , Civil Beat, March 9, 2017 (with Slater)The Impending Honolulu Rail Ridership Debacle (external) , Civil Beat, Feb. 13, 2017 (with Slater).Still time to turn rail woe into bus way , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Dec. 25, 2016What to do about the Honolulu Rail Project , Civil Beat, Oct. 3, 2016 (with Slater and Prevedouros).We Should Not Pay a Penny To The Federal Transit Administration (external) , Civil Beat, Oct. 10, 2016 (with Slater and Prevedouros).It’s not too late to make right call on rail , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Sept. 18, 2016 (with Prevedouros).How to make the best of Honolulu’s rail fiasco , Honolulu, Star-Advertiser, June 29, 2016 (with Slater and Prevedouros).What is OHA? , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, page 1 of Sunday Insight Section, Dec. 20, 2015 (with Walter Heen).Honolulu Rail: From $4.6B to $8.6B in Eight Years. Now What? (external) , New Geography, Oct. 11, 2016;
A Bright Future for Public Education (external) , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Sunday Insight Section, Nov. 15, 2015 (with Roberta Mayor and Darrel Galera).New Testing Regime at Public Schools is a Recipe for Disaster , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Sunday Insight Section, Oct. 8, 2015 (with Darrel Galera, Roberta Mayor, John Sosa, and Marsha Alegre).Public School Leaders Must Be Empowered To Achieve Success , HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER, May 20, 2014 (with Darrel Galera, John Sosa, Penelope Tom and RandiAnn Porras-Tang).How the City Misled the Public on Elevated Heavy Rail , Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Aug. 21, 2011, p. F1 (with Walter Heen, Benjamin Cayetano, and Cliff Slater).Managed lanes would be superior to elevated rail , PACIFIC BUSINESS NEWS, June 22, 2012 (with John Brizdle). Rail Robbery , HONOLULU WEEKLY, June 20, 2012 (with Walter Heen and Cliff Slater). City Rail Project is Fundamentally Flawed (external) , HAWAII REPORTER, Mar. 27, 2012 (with Walter Heen and Cliff Slater). Job Numbers Don’t Add Up , HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER, Oct. 20, 2011 (with Walter Heen, Benjamin Cayetano, and Cliff Slater). Eulogy for Samuel P. King , 14 HAW. B.J. 9 (2011).Public Education in Hawaiʻi: Past, Present & Future , 50th Anniversary of Statehood Commission Proceedings and UH College of Education Amioka Lecture (2010).Catholic Parents Proud of Gay Son , commentary appearing in Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and Hawaii Filipino Chronicles (2010) (with Susie Roth).The Queen’s Estate , 13 HAW. B.J. 9 (May 2009) (reprinted by THE HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, May 17 and May 18, 2009) (with Samuel P. King and Walter M. Heen).Politics in Hawaii: Is Something Broken? (external) , HONOLULU MAGAZINE, Vol. ILII, No. 11, p. 46 (2008).