Articles by Will Bailey
Born in the USA : All-American team set to join the 9th tier of English Football
FC219 is a brand new Football Club which intends to build a bridge between American College Soccer players and the English Football League system. Linking up with Edge Hill University in Lancashire, the club is set to start in the 9th division with aims of climbing the pyramid. The club will entirely consist of American students who have already completed their undergraduate degree in the States.
Nightmare Start: Are Hampton & Richmond heading for relegation?
National League South club Hampton & Richmond FC have suffered two of the worst consecutive seasons in their 10-year run since re-entering the league in 2016. Sitting in 22nd place after just 10 games, the season is still young; however, after two 18th-place finishes in 24/25 and 25/26, the team still seems to lack the quality to hold their own in Step 2 football.
Will Bailey: Orbiting Reality In An Era Of Online Uncertainty
How the constant thrum of media is shaping our world and why that matters in Hawaiʻi. The house is quiet except for the radio. Family gathered close. Dinner’s done. Lights low. Nobody saying much. Just listening. Plates still on the table. A fan turning slow in the corner. Someone leans back in their chair without taking their eyes off the dial. The voice comes through steady. Familiar. Not loud. Not worked up. Just certain — like someone who’s been sitting with this longer than you have.
Will Bailey: Hawaiʻi Could Feel The Consequences Of The Iran War Soon
Loose talk about bombing Iran’s civilian infrastructure skips over the real cost of escalation — and Hawaiʻi is about to feel those consequences. For more than a day, an American airman was alone in the mountains of southwestern Iran. His F-15E Strike Eagle had already been shot out of the sky. He and his pilot had ejected into hostile territory. One was recovered relatively quickly.
Will Bailey: Riders On The Storm
A look at how a Kona low shows up in real life on the east side of the state — small failures, stretched systems, and the point where things stop holding. Last Friday it rained all day. Or close enough to count. Wet in the morning. Off and on through the afternoon. Then heavy — blinding, the kind of rain that makes driving feel like guesswork more than control. My wife works the night shift in Hilo. She’s been making that drive in it for weeks now. The worst of it always seems to meet her on the road.
Will Bailey: How We Lost Our New Home To Trump's Illegal Tariffs
A lost prefab home, a Supreme Court ruling and the reality of who actually absorbs the cost of trade policy. Months before the last presidential election, my wife and I bought a house. It wasn’t an investment property or a speculative project — just a modest prefab container home from China, about $20,000. Steel walls, a simple frame, nothing elaborate. It was within reach for us, and it felt solid. It took nearly eight months to build. We live off grid on the east side of Hawaiʻi island.
Will Bailey: Our Fragile State Is Too Dependent On The Kindness Of Billionaires
If large-scale ownership is now part of Hawaiʻi’s future, then large-scale stewardship must be as well. Hawaiʻi is small. That isn’t poetry. It’s math. We import most of what we eat. We depend on shipping lanes, fuel deliveries, steady ports and stable tourism cycles. When something in that chain falters — a strike, a storm, a backlog — grocery prices here don’t drift upward. They spike. Construction slows. Shelves thin. Contractors pause. Families adjust. Fragility, in an island state, is not a metaphor.
Will Bailey: What A Homelessness Count Can - And Can't - See In East Hawaiʻi
Commentary Homelessness is a shifting set of responses to distance, scarcity, and history — shaped as much by geography as by policy. Homelessness is a shifting set of responses to distance, scarcity, and history — shaped as much by geography as by policy.
Will Bailey: A Quiet Redesign Helped Hawaiʻi Farms Get Past The Paperwork
Commentary The system wasn’t broken. It was built for someone else. The system wasn’t broken. It was built for someone else. Hawaiʻi talks a lot about supporting small farmers. We talk about food security. About resilience. About reducing our dependence on imports. But for years, one of the most basic barriers facing small producers had nothing to do with land, water or labor.
Will Bailey: After Removal, What Comes Next For Venezuela
Power, restraint and the cost of governing without consent. The capture of Venezuela’s president on Jan. 3 did not arrive as a surprise. It arrived as a conclusion. By the time U.S. forces moved, months of warnings had already been issued, negotiations attempted and discarded, and alternatives quietly weighed and set aside. Whatever one thinks of Nicolás Maduro — and his record of repression, corruption and economic collapse is well documented — this was not a moment of confusion or miscalculation.
Will Bailey: Federal Changes Hit Hawaiʻi Hard In 2025
The fast-fading year showed us how quickly weight shifts — and how it lands on communities already stretched by cost, distance and recovery. When 2025 began, many people in Hawaiʻi were doing what they have learned to do well: waiting. Waiting on housing decisions. Waiting on insurance payouts. Waiting on permits, reimbursements, repairs and choices made somewhere else.
Will Bailey: Congress Let The ACA Subsidy Cliff Arrive
Column In Hawaiʻi, thousands of residents rely on the Affordable Care Act for health care and will soon see their costs go up substantially. In Hawaiʻi, thousands of residents rely on the Affordable Care Act for health care and will soon see their costs go up substantially. On the morning of Dec. 17, Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick knew he didn’t have the votes. The Rules Committee had already shut him out. Leadership had blocked his amendments.
Will Bailey: The Line We Do Not Cross
What the boat survivors tell us about the decay of American military norms. There are lines in war you do not cross — not because the enemy deserves mercy, but because you deserve to come home with your humanity intact. On Sept.
Will Bailey: The Big Island's Battle For The Birds
Chickens OK, roosters not so much. Bill 52 tests how far Hawaiʻi County will go to balance peace, food and freedom. At 4 in the morning, the street stirs — unwillingly. A single crow cracks the dark, answered by a dozen more echoing off the lava walls. By sunrise, the scratching begins: banana trees uprooted, lawns torn bare, shrubs reduced to sticks. In a Kona subdivision, Danny Jesser hasn’t slept past dawn in years. “I can’t even use my yard anymore,” he said.
Will Bailey: When Federal Maps Erase Rural Hawaiʻi
The U.S. Census Bureau has changed what is classified as “urban” and “rural.” That can have major economic ramifications. I never thought of this part of Puna as an urban center. In fact, I might have scoffed if I’d ever heard it called one — like a sunburned gas-station attendant in a road movie, laughing at the idea of city limits. There are still enough loose dogs to keep you alert, though it’s gotten better in recent years.
Will Bailey: Pohoiki Bay Dredging Was A Onetime Job - That's How Feds Do It
These types of restoration projects are about the ribbon-cutting, but not the maintenance. When the state’s dredging of Pohoiki Bay began, it was meant to be a homecoming. Seven years after lava sealed the boat ramp, Puna’s fishers would finally reach the sea again. But weeks after the project finished, the channel was gone — filled once more with sand and stone. The water turned stagnant, the fish inside suffocated, and the celebration faded into a kind of stunned quiet.
Will Bailey: State's Dredging Of Pohoiki Bay Fails Quickly And Completely
Built to reopen a path from a crucial boat ramp to the ocean, the new channel through volcanic debris has already vanished. When the state’s dredging of Pohoiki Bay began in June, project critic Dane DuPont wasn’t speaking prophecy. He was reading the data. As co-founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Education and Resilience Institute, DuPont helped design digital tools to track the 2018 Kīlauea eruption and map homes lost to lava.
Will Bailey: If The Halls of Learning Go Dim, We Lose Something Sacred
Challenged as it may be, the university still holds the essence of our quest for truth. It begins, always, in a room built for learning. The benches rise steeply so every face can see the center. Once it was a body on a table, a professor with a scalpel describing the miracle of bone and nerve. Then it was a jurist, a scholar, a statesman — each believing that light itself poured down from the ceiling. The subjects changed, not the architecture.
Will Bailey: If The Halls of Learning Go Dim, We Lose Something Sacred
Will Bailey: If The Halls of Learning Go Dim, We Lose Something Sacred Challenged as it may be, the university still holds the essence of our quest for truth. Challenged as it may be, the university still holds the …
Will Bailey: What The Administration's New Warrior Mentality Really Means
The federal government shutdown is an unmistakable command to obey or face the consequences. He spoke like a preacher, not a secretary of defense. A man built for the camera, shoulders square, voice tuned to the cadence of prime-time outrage. The lighting could’ve been straight from Pete Hegseth’s former Fox News set: flags behind him, applause cued on time, but the brass wasn’t smiling.
Will Bailey: This Historic Stretch Of Puna Coastline Is Worth Preserving
A long-delayed effort to acquire Honolulu Landing takes on new urgency with its real estate listing. They came in person to the Hilo chamber, with others joining from Pāhoa, filling the hearing with voices that carried memory and urgency. One of the first to testify was Lehua Kaulukukui, who began by chanting the opening lines of the Kumulipo, Hawaiʻi’s creation chant.
Will Bailey: From Pāhoa to Honoka‘a, These Projects Offer Housing And Hope
A fragile, improvised network of services stretches across East Hawai‘i island. In Honoka‘a this week, I watched the old nuns’ quarters at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church being blessed into kūpuna housing — the Hale Ulu Lehua project, made possible by HOPE Services Hawai‘i. The setting was simple: a shade tent, folding chairs, a small podium. The mayor was there, a state representative, the governor’s coordinator on homelessness.
Will Bailey: Pōhakuloa Is Perfect For The Army. So Don't Let Them Pressure Us
Lease negotiations should proceed on island time, not military time. I trained at Pōhakuloa. We all did. We’d fly in aboard Black Hawks and Chinooks, banking over the saddle. For the pilots, the winds were their own proving ground — sudden drops, unpredictable currents, landings on jagged lava fields. For us in the back, your stomach hit your throat as the bird plunged, hands gripping the seat. Scary at first. Then a rush. The doors would slide open, and it was red dust and lava rock below.
Will Bailey: Schatz's Waimea Audience Could Have Raised More Local Issues
The well-heeled West Hawaiʻi crowd didn’t really address issues that trouble the rest of the Big Island. In the front row, a man wore a polished belt buckle, the leather stamped with his cattle brand. Two seats over sat the head of a Latino farmworkers’ group. Around the room were ranch owners, union leaders, nonprofit directors and chamber reps — the kind of people who can open a checkbook, sway a vote, or pull 50 neighbors into a meeting with one phone call.
Will Bailey: Why East Hawai‘i's Fishery Has Fallen On Hard Times
From the boats to the markets, Hilo Bay used to be a thriving industrial area. My dad still talks about it. How in the 1980s he flew over from Kaua‘i just to see it — the bustle, the action, the life that radiated from Suisan Fish Market. Back then, it wasn’t just a place to buy fish. It was the beating heart of Hilo’s working shoreline. Boats would come in loaded, men yelling, forklifts moving, kids running underfoot, aunties eyeing the fresh ‘ahi. You didn’t just witness it, you felt it.
Will Bailey: Collapse Of Banyan Drive Is A Sign Of Hilo's Selective Neglect
Column A Big Island shoreline meant to welcome the world is now a corridor of decay. A Big Island shoreline meant to welcome the world is now a corridor of decay. In Hilo, the banyans bow over broken concrete, still remembering. They’ve stood through sugar ships and tour buses, county project delays and continental dreams. The banyans along Hilo’s once-grand shoreline, the historic heart of the Big Island’s east side, don’t just cast shade, they cast witness. To arrivals. To departures.
Will Bailey: The Sacred Sword May Be Legend, But Its Meaning Is Real
Column A story recounted by Hawaiʻi’s final king bears a message: True welcome is not erasure. It’s exchange. A story recounted by Hawaiʻi’s final king bears a message: True welcome is not erasure. It’s exchange. It’s said a ship once wrecked on Hawaiian shores — Japanese, long before Captain Cook. A vessel lost to storm or stars, dashed on lava rock. And in the wreckage: survivors. Men of the sea. Carried in by fate and current, bearing nothing but their lives, and a sword. Not a club, not a spear.
Will Bailey: The Price A Community Pays With Short-Term Rentals
In Puna, the houses still stand. But something gets hollowed out when no one’s home. Out here on the east side of Hawaiʻi island, where the rain comes in sideways and the jungle never quits, houses used to mean something. Not just shelter, but memory. Stories. Whole generations raised under one tin roof. Kids barefoot on lava rock. Dogs buried in the yard. Papayas sprouting where someone tossed a seed 20 years ago. Now, more and more of those houses stay empty.
Will Bailey: The Everyday Reality Of Living Off The Grid In Puna
Commentary There’s no trash pickup or mail service and sometimes no power. But there’s plenty of rainwater if you can catch it. There’s no trash pickup or mail service and sometimes no power. But there’s plenty of rainwater if you can catch it. You don’t really check the mail in Puna. You make a trip. Ours is in Hilo, 45 minutes each way if the weather’s good and traffic cooperates. You go to town for mail, trash, maybe water in Kurtistown. That’s the routine.
Will Bailey: Puna's Long Wait After Lava Cut Off Pohoiki Boat Ramp
The state has finally started dredging, but it shouldn’t have taken this long to restore a heartbeat of the community. The lava stopped. The people didn’t. But the help was a long time coming. For years, the boat ramp at Pohoiki sat intact and unusable — a monument to stillness and stalling. When the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea reshaped the land, it reshaped lives. Roads were cut. Shorelines erased. Homes lost. But Pohoiki, somehow, remained.
Will Bailey: It Was Never About The Fence
In celebration of Independence Day, a reflection on our country’s foundational document and what it should mean to us today. There’s a story they used to tell out in the country — about an old man and a fence. The man had built it in his youth, straight as a rifle shot, to mark the edge of his land. Over time, a river that once lapped against it began to shift. Slowly at first, then all at once. Floods, seasons, decades. The fence stayed put. The river wandered.
Will Bailey: Attack On Public Health Hurts Hawaiʻi's Rural Communities
Confusion has become the anti-vaxxer’s weapon of choice. Editor’s note: Civil Beat welcomes its newest columnist, Will Bailey, a Kauaʻi-born military veteran who lives off-grid on Hawaiʻi island with his wife and daughter. Will plans to write about what he calls “community, legacy and the systems that quietly shape everyday lives.” Most folks don’t need to be told twice to be cautious. We read labels. We trust what we know.
I Fought For Democracy Abroad. I Never Thought I'd Be Fighting For It Here
I served because I believed America stood for something greater than brute force or personal gain. I’m not a political person. I’ve spent most of my adult life working hard, raising a family, and trying to stay out of the shouting match that American politics has become. But what I’ve seen over the past few years — and what I’m seeing now — has left me shaken in a way that two combat tours in Iraq never did. I served in the Army under both President Bush and President Obama.
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Dom Joly is coming to Nottingham
Dom Joly from Trigger Happy TV is coming to Nottingham in two weeks for an intimate show! “Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean you’re not being followed!” Dom Joly has been off travelling the globe again. This time, he’s been looking into some of the strangest and weirdest conspiracy theories in existence. Now, he’s now set to embark on a rather unique theatre tour, where Dom will be providing a hilarious, fascinating, and slightly anarchic guide to the wacky world of conspiracies.
A Complete Guide on Flowering Teas by Ovi Magazine Guest
Blooming Tea: A Complete Guide on Flowering Teas Print - Comment - Send to a Friend - More from this Author Blooming Tea: A Complete Guide on Flowering Teas By Will Bailey What is Blooming Flowering Tea? Blooming Tea also known as Flowering Tea. As the name suggests, the type of drink is made of a mixture of edible flowers and tea leaves. The mixture is not processed but instead, they are tied together and used in making tea when dry.
Sheffield students resume campus occupations to protest university’s arms industry links
It’s the first occupation of the academic year 10 mins ago Students at the University of Sheffield are occupying the university’s famous Arts Tower. The two-pronged protest is being undertaken in solidarity with striking workers and in condemnation of the university’s ongoing financial links with the arms industry. It is the first protest of the academic year being carried out by the Sheffield Action Group.
10 things incoming freshers need to know about Sheffield
The prospectus didn’t tell you THIS 2 hours ago #1 The Hills You already know this but it bears repeating. Like Rome, Sheffield was built on seven hills. However, due to inflation, that will feel more like 70. Your legs won’t thank you at first but, by Christmas, you’ll be able to crush a VK bottle between your cheeks. #2 West St Whether you’re at Hallam or Uni of, you will begin (and probably end) many of your nights on West St. The drinks are cheap (sometimes) and the bars are packed.
Self Esteem headlines cast of Sheffield stars receiving honorary degrees from the uni
The University of Sheffield has this week announced its 2023 honorary degree awardees and a few famous local faces have bagged gongs. Whilst you were sweating it the IC to scrape that 2:1, these overachievers were touring the country and winning Olympic medals. To add insult to injury, they got a doctorate at the end of it. Meet the class of 2023: Self Esteem – Doctor of Music Headlining this year’s roster is Rotherham born Rebecca Lucy Taylor.
Why Sheffield remains the UK's largest city without an official Pride event
It has been four years since the Steel City’s last official Pride event 15 mins ago Pride in Sheffield has confirmed that the city will not be hosting an official Pride event in 2023, making it the largest in the UK not to do so.
Four Keys to Better Client Communication
Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Thinkstock By thinking like designers, advisors can learn to more effectively communicate with their clients. Will Bailey | Mar 03, 2021 In 2021, digital communication is paramount in the dialogue between wealth managers and their clients, particularly the ability to communicate with empathy and consistency across multiple digital channels.
Creating financial wellness for employees via gamification
By Will Bailey Financial wellness means different things to different people and there is no universally accepted definition. My favourite definition of financial wellness as being financially stress free and not worried about debt and unexpected expenses. The reason that this definition rings true to me is that it speaks to the personal relationship one has with their finances and applies across the entirety of the wealth spectrum.
Departmental Progressive Club Making a Difference in Alexandria
ARHA CEO Keith Pettigrew, second from right, poses for a photo with Departmental Progressive Club president Merrick Malone, left, ARHA resident director Gaynelle Bowden-Diaz, and DPC’s William Chesley on May 21 following the presentation of $890 in grocery gift cards from the DPC to ARHA. Photo by Will Bailey Members of the Departmental Progressive Club joined forces to raise more than $1,600 to donate to Carpenter’s Shelter and the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority.
Boomtown Fair news: INSTALMENT TICKET HOLDERS - your next payment deadline is tonight!!
Latest update from Boomtown Fair INSTALMENT TICKET HOLDERS – your next payment deadline is tonight!! ✋🎟 If you purchased your ticket before 10th February, your next payment is due to be taken tomorrow; Tuesday, 3rd March 💸 You need to have the correct funds in your bank from midnight TONIGHT (2nd March) to make sure that this payment doesn't bounce – or you may lose your ticket, and we don't want that to happen!! ɪᴍᴘᴏʀᴛᴀɴᴛ ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ 👀: 〰 If you have lost or replaced your bank card since you...
USADATA’s Director of Digital Marketing, Will Bailey, to speak at Digital Summit Dallas
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:01 am USADATA’s Director of Digital Marketing, Will Bailey, to speak at Digital Summit Dallas Associated Press | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 3, 2019-- USADATA, a leading provider of digital marketing and data services, will be presenting at Digital Summit Dallas at the Irving Convention Center on December 3rd at 3:30 pm.
Tri-Tip Roast - The Cook's Cook
The tri-tip cut of beef is an economical choice for those who enjoy steaks with a juicy, moderately chewy texture (think sirloin strip steak). It is a thick, triangular-shaped piece of meat, weighing in at roughly 907 grams (2 pounds). Preparation could not be easier: apply heat for less than an hour, give it a brief rest, slice it thinly across the grain (very important!) and prepare for a mouthful of beefy bliss.
Graceful Peony – A Cocktail Made with Pomegranate Peony White Tea - The Cook's Cook
For tea beginners, even ordinary proper brewing might sound intimidating. But as soon as you master the basics of preparing a perfect cup of tea, you might want to explore further options. Loose leaf tea can be used for numerous kinds of lattes, booze-infused iced-teas, creams, and even in salad dressings. If you’ve never used loose leaf tea for making cocktails, now is the time to start exploring a whole new amazing world of delicious and refreshing creations.
The Fintech opportunity in London
Will Bailey, EVP for Europe and Innovation at InvestCloud, explains how bridging Silicon Valley’s technology expertise with London financial heritage is creating a unique opportunity for FinTech innovation in the City, and why this encouraged him to make the move across the Atlantic. As an American having made the move over to live and work in London, the predictable question I’m always asked is, why would I want to swap sunny California for grey Britain?
How Investment Managers Can Fight Off The Threat From Big Tech
A recent report found that 56.2% of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) would think about using one of the big four technology firms to manage their wealth if they offered investment services. When considered against a backdrop of only just over a third of HNWIs saying they would recommend their current investment manager, the report can be viewed as "doom and gloom" for the investment management sector.
How investment managers can fight off the threat from big tech
A recent report found that 56.2% of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) would think about using one of the big four technology firms to manage their wealth if they offered investment services. When considered against a backdrop of only just over a third of HNWIs saying they would recommend their current investment manager, the report can be viewed as "doom and gloom" for the investment management sector.
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