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The Long Vacation: Leaving On A Jet Plane
In August, Caleb Hartsfield, who’s been drawing cartoons and doing illustrations for us the past year, headed to the mainland where his girlfriend is attending a fine arts college. We thought that was...
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Peter Apo: Let Me Set The Record Straight
Editor’s note: Peter Apo’s Community Voice is in response to Brett Oppegaard’s recent column, Reader Rep: Dig Deeper Into Peter Apo’s Misdeeds. Mr. Oppegaard: Ethics violations are a civil matter, not...
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This Waikiki Land Fight Is A Doozy
The sons of two of Honolulu’s most prominent business leaders are being accused of plotting to secretly take over prime Waikiki real estate to make way for a $200-million, 32-story luxury high rise. A...
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Say Aloha To Our New Civil Beat Interns
It’s the start of a new school year and that means Civil Beat has a new crop of interns. And a couple of “old” ones who are sticking around for another year. This is the second year of our in-depth...
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Hawaii Unemployment Rate Falls To 10-Year Low Of 2.6 Percent
(AP) — Hawaii’s jobless rate fell to a 10-year low of 2.6 percent last month.The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Thursday the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell 0.1...
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Honolulu Rail Board: What Do You Do With A $2.4 Billion Bailout?
Ten days after Gov. David Ige signed a rail funding bill tying an infusion of $2.4 billion of sorely needed funding to greater transparency on spending, the first meeting of the Honolulu rail board...
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Pension Spiking Costs Taxpayers Millions — Now The Push Is On To Stop It
Ever since he was a state representative, Joey Manahan said he has been concerned about the cost to Hawaii taxpayers of overtime in general and its potential effect on retirement pensions in...
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Lots Of Love For Driverless Cars, Except From One Group – Drivers
As tech companies and automakers, cheered on by the federal government, race to test and promote autonomous vehicles, several surveys show that most motorists don’t want to drive, ride in or be on the...
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It’s Time For A New Approach To Welfare
On Friday, July 28, something rather interesting happened in Congress. In a decisive and dramatic vote, Republican lawmakers failed to pass House Resolution 1628, also known as the Health Care Freedom...
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Sanders’‘Medicare For All’ Plan Deserves Serious Consideration
Health care is top of mind once again in Washington, D.C., where our elected representatives have an opportunity to enact legislation that recognizes what more and more Americans see as a right rather...
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Constant Flooding in Mapunapuna May Lead State To Cut Lease Payments
By now, anyone who watches the local evening news knows that Mapunapuna floods dramatically during high tides and heavy rains. As local scientists and government agencies have ramped up their work to...
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Mars Research Subjects To Emerge After 8 Months Of Isolation
(AP) — After eight months of living in isolation on a Big Island volcano, six NASA-backed research subjects will emerge from their Mars-like habitat on Sunday and return to civilization. Their first...
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Hawaii Hotels Airing New Ocean Safety Videos For Visitors
County ocean safety officials and state drowning prevention experts unveiled four 25-second videos Friday with tips for tourists to stay safe in Hawaii waters. The four spots, produced by Visitor Video...
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Tom Yamachika: Don’t Let Your Legislators Forget About You
This week, I was inspired by a sign on the First Baptist Church on Pensacola Street here in Honolulu. Their sign read, “CH _ _ C H – what’s missing? U R !” If you take away “U R” from “CHURCH,” you are...
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Alan McNarie: Wait For Drug Treatment On Big Island Can Stretch Months
“We were never going to solve our problems just by locking people up,” Hawaii County Prosecutor Mitch Roth told Civil Beat in July, noting that Hawaii’s prison system was already operating at capacity....
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The Choice To Stay In Hawaii
My sister graduated from Kauai High School this past May. I returned home from my second year of college for the ceremony. At her grad party that following weekend, as I fielded the typical handful of...
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These Big Oahu Schools Got Bigger — And Small Ones Keep Shrinking
Even as total enrollment in Hawaii’s public schools dipped slightly, some of Oahu’s biggest and already overcrowded high schools continue to grow. Campbell High School remains the largest in the state,...
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Reader Rep: Are You Getting Your Money’s Worth From The HPD?
Denny Santiago said what we already knew: “There is some pretty screwed up stuff going on in the (Honolulu) police department.” The veteran officer stepped from the shadows recently and broke the...
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Another Growing Threat To Hawaii’s Coral Reefs: Invasive Algae
Hawaii’s corals appear to have been spared this summer from another mass bleaching, a stress response caused by warmer waters that has ravaged reefs in recent years. But they haven’t been so lucky with...
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Pod Squad: Josh Green Makes His Case To Be LG
State Sen. Josh Green talks about his hopes for pushing an agenda that includes raising the minimum wage, expanding drug-and-alcohol treatment programs and working on other key issues for families...
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