Another excellent point IslandGyrl Unfortunately the Honolulu Advertiser only has articles from 1999 on available online so we can t state one way or the other what the editorial opinion pages held when Twigg Smith owned the paper without looking at hardcopies It would be interesting to look at the op eds from before he sold the paper and see if we could find an influence one way or another That being said have you had a chance to read his book It seems clear that you don t agree with him on some of the issues but I would guess that you might appreciate his tone in his book My shallow impression of his motivation is that he feels defensive and isn t trying to oppress anyone He seems genuinely hurt by the allegations that his grandfather stole something from the native hawaiians I believe he mentions an anecdote about some young part hawaiian child confronting him with that accusation Since the crown lands were ceded to the U S and given back to the State Of Hawaii once we got statehood not appropriated by his grandfather for his own personal benefit I give some credence to his point of view Perhaps there is some other evidence of greed and ill gotten gain I m not aware of though JereKrischel JereKrischel