The Social Science Association is still going strong after 143 years. But its once high-profile community presence has faded ...

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The Social Science Association is one interesting civic group working in Hawaiʻi’s best interest that has been largely out of ...

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Family claims administrators at Hawaiʻi's only public psychiatric hospital failed to institute basic safety protocols to ...

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Advocates say we're the only state without a law requiring release of dying inmates in some circumstances, and will press the ...