We all know about the movement on many fronts across the country to end distracted driving. But now Claude Wyle from San Francisco and one of the country's top lawyers, warns that…
Hawaii high school students will be celebrating graduation this month and into June and the text messages and Tweets will be flying through cyberspace each night. If, on May 26th for instance at…
Any type of surgery can be scary. But would you feel better or worse about your impending surgery if you knew how the hospital ranked in terms of patient safety? For some this very question may…
The politicians and the special interests and lobbyists that fund them are supposed to keep their hands off the judicial branch of government. That is how the American system works. The Judicial…
Democracy is often equated with justice and giving power to the people. Popular elections are held up as the hallmark of freedom. In Florida they elect their judges _ something we don't do in…
On the H-1 in Honolulu there is a short stretch of freeway between Punahou and Kahala Mall where cars battle for position and road rage is rampant. The distance of this road rage zone is about 3…
In a recent study it has been observed that lower rates of hormone therapy have resulted in doctors decreasing mammograms: A study published online in the American Cancer Society journal Cancer…
Recently I had a conversation with an architect in Honolulu. I asked him why he was continuing to use a pesticide soil pretreatment for schools, and other buildings that his firm was designing? He…
As a big support of the public safety and prevention organization KidsAndCars.org, the story today on CNN about Rachel is worth talking about. Rachel was killed in an automobile crash when she was…
My favorite organizations are often so consumed with making ends meet that they can’t do anything except survive. Nothing new. No new ideas. No new initiatives. I wonder if we can organize around…
Two news stories reminded me of the perils of fire in our homes and cars. A truck caught fire on the H-1 Freeway at the Kaneohe and Aiea off ramp heading east at 7:40 am on Friday, August 12, 2011,…
Today I report the sad saga of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. As reported by Jamie Stengle of the Associated Press in Forbes, Feds: Parkland conditions a ‘threat’ to patients a Texas…