The Molokai Times, J. Kalani English
Over the past few weeks, I have been writing about some of the significant new challenges facing Molokai and our state.
Molokai Ranch has ended its operations, as has Aloha Airlines. We continue to face uncertainty in social, scientific and cultural areas, with questions about genetically modified foods, our educational system, and preservation of our native culture and lifestyles on the minds of many of our neighbors.
In national politics, we hear the constant drum-beat of change. A change in foreign policy, a change in the way we view race and gender, and change in the value we place on the accumulation of wealth. And while that drive for change is less urgently felt in Hawai‘i, I think we all have a sense that with so much going on around us, we need to be ready for something new when it appears on our horizon.
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