This Honolulu Charter School Has Found A Unique Way To Survive
The differences stand out. One is a high school, the other a middle school. One was established more than 70 years ago, the other only four years ago. One’s student body is nearly one-quarter...
View ArticleNew Hawaii Salary Database: How Much Do We Pay Our Public Servants?
Editor’s note: One of Civil Beat’s most popular features, the database of public employee salaries, has been updated to reflect numbers for the 2018 fiscal year, which began July 1. We update the...
View ArticleCan War With Korea Be Avoided?
People who count on economic sanctions halting North Korea’s push towards perfecting nuclear missiles are essentially “whistling past the graveyard.” North Korea (a.k.a. the DPRK) already has most of...
View ArticleHealth Beat: Opioid Addiction Less Likely If We Start With Smaller Doses
The Food and Drug Administration just announced its goal of lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, in hopes of helping people to quit. The theory is that with less nicotine, there is...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: The Grand Skim Of Things, Part 2
Last week, we began a discussion about the 5 percent charge that is assessed against the “special funds” in Hawaii government, which we called the “Central Services Skim.” For the last few fiscal...
View ArticleNorth Korea Standoff Renews Push To Rethink Guam’s Government
HAGATNA, Guam (AP) — The nuclear conflict with North Korea that has made Guam the target of a threatened attack has led to new calls to change the government of the Pacific island whose inhabitants are...
View ArticleHawaii Lawmakers Not Sold On Rail Tax Extension
State lawmakers appear skeptical of Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s continued insistence that the state’s general excise tax should be extended to pay for the much-over-budget Honolulu rail project....
View ArticleHawaii Pot Shops To Reopen This Week
Hawaii’s only two medical marijuana dispensaries plan to reopen on Wednesday with more inventory. Oahu’s Aloha Green and Maui Grown Therapies both opened earlier this month to rush of customers and...
View ArticleWill Native Hawaiians Be The Victims In This Fight Over A Royal Fortune?
A 91-year-old Hawaiian princess’s $200 million fortune is at the center of an increasingly bitter legal fight between her former attorney and her longtime live-in girlfriend. The money is the financial...
View ArticleBrittany Lyte: Kauai’s Shifting Sands Offer Clues To Beach’s Future
WAILUA, Kauai — Chuck Blay stands along the seawall that protects Kuhio Highway from the Wailua Beach surf and imagines the future. “You might have just a wall here with water — no beach,” says Blay, a...
View ArticleHawaii Tourists Are Drowning At Nine Times The Rate Of Locals
Roughly 900 people have drowned over the past 10 years in Hawaii, with the rate of visitor deaths continuing to far outpace that of local residents, according to the latest data from state and county...
View ArticleSen. Brian Schatz: Trump Is ‘Not My President’
Hawaii’s senior senator on Tuesday said Donald Trump is not his president. Brian Schatz, a Democrat, sent out the angry tweet Monday afternoon in response to President Trump’s statement Tuesday that...
View ArticleFight For Hawaiian Royalty’s Fortune Pulls AG Into The Fray
The Hawaii Attorney General’s Office is entering the legal fight over who controls more than $200 million trust of Abigail Kawananakoa so that it can protect the interests of Native Hawaiians who are...
View ArticleAudit: Some Honolulu Garbage Workers Take Excessive Sick Leave, OT
Employees of the city’s garbage service abuse overtime, sick time and paid time off, according to a city audit of the Department of Environmental Services bulky item collection service. The audit,...
View ArticleUH Should Save Ka Leo — And Bring It Into The Digital Age
When U.S. Rep. Mark Takai died just over a year ago, he was remembered for his many accomplishments, especially his political and military service as well as his passionate support for education and...
View ArticleChinatown Has A New Shelter For The Homeless Mentally Ill
Transitioning 25 mentally ill, chronically homeless adults to a new setting is no easy task. It’s been three years since the city announced that Safe Haven shelter, run by the nonprofit Mental Health...
View Article5 Missing After Army Helicopter Goes Down
HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard and military crews searched the ocean off Hawaii on Wednesday for five people aboard an Army helicopter that went down during a nighttime training exercise. Officials...
View ArticleThe Resistance Is Here To Stay
During an Aug. 7 Ethics in Politics discussion at UH’s Shidler Business School, Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa made it clear that civil engagement – the Resistance – is critical to our political...
View ArticleCensus To Count Micronesians In Hawaii, US Territories
Two federal agencies announced Wednesday that they will conduct a census of Micronesians living in Hawaii and three island territories. The count will launch sometime after Sept. 30 and be completed by...
View ArticleNeal Milner: Two Movements That Are Transforming Conservative Thought
Democrats are not the only ones struggling for the soul of their party. Conservatives are doing the same. Let’s look at two conservative efforts, American greatness and the Benedict Option. They are...
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