The entries in our 2024 political cartoonist contest are in and the winner is Will Caron, a Hawaiʻi journalist and communications professional who has been drawing for more than a decade.

Caron said he came to amplify that call to raise it up from the state level because he’s sick and tired of watching his tax dollars go to fund bombs and bullets that are blowing up kids in Gaza.

We are the third-worst state when it comes to taxing struggling working families.

States’ taxes lean most heavily on poorer residents. These states are trying to change that.

Honolulu officials have been keeping an eye on how Maui has managed the issue.

The Legislature is considering a rash of vastly different strategies, while Gov. Josh Green's bills are struggling for traction.

The new tax would apply to people with a net worth of more than $20 million.

Authors Sydney Iaukea and Will Caron will talk about community-based resistance and land use issues from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Lahaina Public Library.

Over the past century, Ka Leo has published numerous groundbreaking stories and scooped up national awards. Here’s a roundup of five of Ka Leo’s most influential articles.

After taking a long, winding path through the Legislature, a bill making the Earned Income Tax Credit permanent and refundable has made it through both the House and the Senate, though disagreements over amendments mean that the bill will now go before a conference committee.

A bill in the state Legislature could potentially mean more money in the pockets of working families on Kauaʻi.

But a living wage increase will go a long way toward providing financial stability for many in Hawaiʻi.

The answer lies in an expansion of the strategy that held the line against poverty in 2020 and that helped America out of the Great Depression.

DJ eOmni interviews Will Caron on recent events in the Hawaiʻi civic and political arena, and how civic involvement is the cure for disaster-capitalist blues.

Registering to vote, step one in a simple act of good citizenship, is now part of the battleground that is the Democrat-Republican national split.

Supporters say the minimum wage should be increased to $17 an hour by 2026—a hike they say is also good for businesses because it boosts consumer spending.

For the third time in three years, an effort to produce affordable middle-class housing at no longterm taxpayer expense is being buffeted at the legislature, despite substantial backing.

Prosecutors, politicians and the media inflamed public fears about crime to pressure a halt to an expedited release program that had been preventing outbreak.

Similar to what happened in Florida, we drained Waikiki and opened ourselves up to the threat of flooding.

Young people do care. We care about our future. We care about this planet. Yet, we do not fully participate in our democracy for the most pedestrian of reasons.