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These Kalihi Streets Are A Big Hazard For Bike Riders
Many of Kalihi’s streets are in disrepair. Some are littered with potholes and others are in serious need of sidewalks, making many areas of Kalihi unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Earlier this...
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Neal Milner: Pointers For When You’re Stuck Talking Politics
A month or so ago when my wife, Joy, and I were at a family celebration at an Italian restaurant not far from Washington, D.C., some people at our table decided that they wanted to talk politics. The...
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Navy Rescues 2 Honolulu Women Lost In The Pacific For Months
(AP) — Two women and their dogs have been rescued after being lost at sea for months while trying to sail from Hawaii to Tahiti. The U.S. Navy rescued the women Wednesday after a Taiwanese fishing...
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Star-Advertiser Employees Rally To Protest Layoffs
Following layoffs within the past year that wiped out roughly a quarter of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s newsroom staff, employees rallied outside the newspaper’s office Thursday. The Honolulu-based...
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Why A Hawaii Sculptor Keeps Returning To The Same Hill In India
Editor’s Note: Civil Beat intern Annabelle Le Jeune reported this story as her capstone project for a journalism major at the University Of Hawaii Manoa. Travel expenses were provided by a Louise Hess...
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HPD Corruption Case: Who Is Alison Lee Wong?
Who is Alison Lee Wong? That’s a question that’s been raised by the recent federal indictment of former Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha and his prosecutor wife, Katherine, on felony charges of bank...
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Here’s Our Advice For Our New Police Chief
Honolulu’s new police chief has been described as just the right person to heal a department reeling from allegations of deep corruption, abuse of power and general mismanagement. And while Maj. Susan...
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Jim Dooley: Secrecy, Unwavering Loyalty A Recipe For Police Corruption
Recent allegations of wrongdoing inside the clandestine Criminal Intelligence Unit of the Honolulu Police Department have a familiar ring to them. Serious problems in the CIU have occurred and recurred...
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Audit: Honolulu Could Save Millions By Burning Recyclables For Energy
Members of about 160,000 Oahu households sort their discards for Honolulu’s curbside collection program: gray bins for landfill garbage, blue bins for recyclables and green bins for yard waste. The...
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Lawyers Want Review Of Cases Handled By Indicted Officials
(AP) — Hawaii’s public defender is reviewing the criminal cases handled by four Honolulu police officers and a deputy city prosecutor to uncover any possible wrongdoing after they were accused of...
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Former HPD Police Chief Gets New Criminal Defense Attorney
Former police chief Louis Kealoha will soon have a new attorney defending him against charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and deception of government investigators. Myles Breiner, who had previously...
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Military Wants To Keep Firing Away In Waters Off Hawaii And California
The U.S. Navy wants approval to continue war games in Hawaii and California waters that include naval ships firing at air targets, Marine battalions practicing amphibious assaults and submarines...
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The Long Vacation: Was It Worth It To Leave Hawaii?
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Rail Project Gets Some Much-Needed Money Management Help From State
When the Hawaii Legislature passed a rail-funding bill in special session last month, much of the public attention was focused on which taxes would be raised, for how long and how much money it would...
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Doctors At UH Hyperbaric Facility Complained Months Before It Shut Down
Physicians at the state’s temporarily shuttered Hyperbaric Treatment Center worried about patient safety and “a lack of any coherent strategic planning or direction with the program,” according to a...
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Pod Squad: Author Randy Roth On Why ‘Broken Trust’ Is Now Free To Read
“Corruption with impunity.” That’s how retired University of Hawaii law professor Randy Roth describes the massive financial mismanagement of the Bishop Estate by former members of the Kamehameha...
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Two Hawaii Women Rescued At Sea Arrive In Japan Aboard Navy Ship
WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, Japan (AP) — Two women from Hawaii who were adrift on a storm-battered sailboat in the Pacific for months set foot on solid ground Monday at a U.S. Navy base in southern...
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Susan Ballard To Be Sworn In Wednesday As Honolulu Police Chief
Susan Ballard will be sworn in as the new chief of the Honolulu Police Department on Wednesday, a day after acting Chief Cary Okimoto is set to retire after 33 years in uniform. Ballard, a major who...
View ArticleEpisode 2: Getting Ready
What happens when people take an idea for education that sounds great in theory, and try to make it work in a real class? Follow along as reporters track the first year of a new school in Hawaii and...
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Lost Hawaii Sailors Did Not Activate Emergency Beacon
(AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that the two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated. U.S. Coast Guard...
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