Government Responds To Hawaii’s Latest Travel Ban Challenge
(AP) — Attorneys for the U.S. government say the close family relationships allowed under the Trump administration’s travel ban are based on definitions outlined by immigration law. A U.S. Supreme...
View ArticleHECO’s $205 Million Grid Plan Aims For Two-Way Flow Of Solar Power
In the first phase of a plan to significantly reshape how Hawaiian Electric Co. delivers power to some 450,000 customers statewide, the utility has unveiled a $205 million proposal to upgrade its...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Prosecutor Says Killing Albatrosses Should Mean Prison Time
Deputy Prosecutor Janice Futa will ask for the maximum penalty for Christian Gutierrez at his sentencing Thursday in the killing of at least 15 Laysan albatrosses at Kaena Point. That would mean a year...
View ArticleHere’s Some Help Understanding Hawaii’s Plans For Improving Public Schools
Anyone following education news in the state lately knows there’s no shortage of plans for improving public schools. There’s the Strategic Plan for 2017-2020 approved in December by the Hawaii Board of...
View ArticleA Solution For Rail Via Google And Wayne Gretzky
Does Google have the answer to Honolulu’s rail project dilemma? The city desperately needs an answer. The project is $3 billion short of funds and our state Legislature tried but totally failed during...
View ArticleChad Blair: Hawaii’s Senators Get Feisty With Tweets And Sound Bites
With health care and immigration front and center on the national stage, U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz are increasingly taking to social media and traditional news outlets to vent their...
View ArticleEmbattled City Prosecutor Kealoha Has Been On Unpaid Leave Since April
Katherine Kealoha, a Honolulu city prosecutor who’s under federal criminal investigation for alleged corruption and abuse of power, has been on unpaid leave since late April. Officials say she is...
View ArticlePod Squad: A Chat With ACLU Hawaii’s Very Busy Executive Director
Vanessa Chong has been sticking up for the rights of the disenfranchised as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii since 1989, frequently focusing on issues such as prison...
View ArticleWoman In Critical Condition, Hundreds Rescued At ‘Floatilla’
(AP) — A 19-year-old is in critical condition after suffering alcohol-related injuries at the Fourth of July celebration called “floatilla,” while hundreds of other people had to be rescued during the...
View ArticleHonolulu Police Commission: Where’s Our Consultant?
Honolulu police commissioners appear to be losing patience in their search for a new police chief to replace Louis Kealoha, who retired in January amid corruption allegations. One of the biggest...
View ArticleHawaii Claims Scaled-Back Trump Travel Ban Still On ‘Flawed Trajectory’
A federal judge in Honolulu is expected to rule soon whether the Trump administration is unlawfully implementing the scaled-back version of the travel ban. Hawaii filed its final motion Wednesday,...
View ArticleUS Census: Those Over 65 Are Hawaii’s Fastest Growing Group
The U.S. Census Bureau released data last week detailing state and county population estimates as of July 1, 2016. Here are a few highlights from an analysis of the data by the Hawaii Department of...
View ArticleNeal Milner: You And I Are The Main Causes Of Inequality In America
The 1 percent is not the main cause of inequality in America. You and I are. More precisely, the culprits are the top 20 percent, which, as the economist Richard Reeves writes in his new book about...
View ArticleWhy Taxpayers Might Have To Pay For Ex-Honolulu Police Chief’s Attorney
A law passed nearly two decades before Hawaii became a state is at the center of an increasingly bitter fight between the Honolulu Police Commission and former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha over...
View ArticleHawaiian Airlines Needs To Commit To Renewable Energy
Hawaiian Airlines offers a lot to like. It has amusing safety videos, its planes arrive on time and nobody gets beat up. That’s the good news. The bad news, however, is Hawaiian appears rather...
View ArticleDon’t Drown The Aquarium Bill
Visitors to the Open Sea exhibit at California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium are astonished to see tuna, turtles, sharks and jellies pulsating through the indigo waters. The 1.3 million-gallon aquarium is...
View ArticleWaipahu Businesses Have Hopes For Rail — If They Can Survive Construction
Tucked in a small plaza just off Farrington Highway in Waipahu, Maria Nichols’ barbershop used to draw about 140 customers a day. Her hairdressers, working at her shop and others around the city, often...
View ArticleHawaii Joins Suit Against DeVos For Delaying For-Profit College Rules
Democratic attorneys general from 18 states — including Hawaii — and the District of Columbia sued U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday over her decision to suspend rules that were meant to...
View ArticleHonolulu Judge Rejects Hawaii’s Latest Challenge To Travel Ban
A federal judge in Honolulu declined Thursday to second-guess how the Trump administration is implementing the scaled-back version of the travel ban. The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Derrick...
View ArticleMan Gets 45 Days For Albatross Killings: ‘I’m Disgusted With My Behavior’
Christian Gutierrez, 19, has been sentenced to 45 days in jail and must perform 200 hours of community service and pay $1,000 in restitution for his part in the killing of Laysan albatrosses at Kaena...
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