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The Uncomfortable Truths About Health Care
I was recently reading the “Book of Predictions.” Written in the early ’80s as an offshoot of the popular “Book of Lists,” it documented experts in various fields’ thoughts on where we would be years...
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Health Beat: Old People Deserve To Have Choices Too
Margaret, 88, is a patient of mine, who used to live with her 92-year-old sister-in-law in an apartment not far from my office. She would take the bus to come see me, and always bring a carry-on...
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Hawaii Acknowledges Failures After Escaped Killer Is Captured
A dangerous psychiatric patient who escaped from the Hawaii State Hospital in Kaneohe and flew to California before being captured Wednesday has prompted an investigation into why employees appeared to...
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New HPD Chief Shares Her Goals For A Department In Turmoil
Susan Ballard kicked off her first Honolulu Police Commission meeting Wednesday like any new CEO might — with a PowerPoint presentation. Ballard, who was appointed as Honolulu police chief last month,...
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Council Panel Votes To Prohibit Lying Down At Honolulu Bus Stops
A Honolulu City Council committee has approved another expansion of the so-called sit-lie ban, this time for lying down at bus stops, but voted to hold off on applying it to areas around schools and...
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Will Rail Go To Manoa and Waikiki After All?
The board that manages the Honolulu rail project is scheduled to hold a closed-door meeting Friday to discuss extending the rail line from its currently planned terminus at Ala Moana Center to the...
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Hawaii State Hospital Wasn’t Built For The Type Of Patients It Serves
The Hawaii State Hospital was not built for patients like Randall Saito, and yet almost all of its current occupants are there by court order. Saito, who was acquitted of a 1979 murder by reason of...
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Neal Milner: Here’s What It Really Takes To Survive In Hawaii
When I taught at the University of Hawaii, faculty members constantly had to figure out how to get our work done given the crazy rules and chronically awful conditions. So we did workarounds, using...
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Making Hawaii Student Testing More Meaningful
As the minutes drag by, warm stagnant air permeates the classroom. Drops of sweat bead up on my forehead. I crank up the fans one more notch. The doors, normally open to let the fresh air flow in, are...
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Caldwell Nominates Former TV Executive For Police Commission
Mayor Kirk Caldwell has nominated former TV executive Dick Grimm to serve on the Honolulu Police Commission to replace Eddie Flores, who is quitting at the end of the month before his full term is up...
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Hawaiian Airlines CEO To Retire In March, Replacement Named
(AP) — Hawaiian Airlines said Thursday that longtime CEO Mark Dunkerley will retire in March and be replaced by the airline’s chief commercial officer, Peter Ingram. Ingram, 51, joined Hawaiian as...
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Escaped State Hospital Patient Aimed To Show He Could Be Outside
(AP) — A Hawaii psychiatric patient who acknowledges killing a woman nearly four decades ago said Thursday he escaped from his hospital and flew to California to prove he could live responsibly in the...
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Chad Blair: A Trip Back To Hawaii Journalism In The ’60s
When 23-year-old David Butwin of Minnesota boarded a plane in 1963 to go to Hawaii, he knew only a few facts about the place. It’s where Pearl Harbor is located. “From Here To Eternity” was filmed on...
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Hokulea’s Voyage To Hana Is A Homecoming For Young Captain
HANA – It’s a safe bet that most of East Maui will be at Hana Bay when the Hokulea glides past Queen Kaahumanu’s birthplace 0n Friday to anchor in the heart of a community celebrating Hawaii’s...
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How Brian Schatz Is Becoming The Senate’s Chief Science Nerd
WASHINGTON — Brian Schatz didn’t start out as a science nerd. After attending Punahou School and then majoring in philosophy at Pomona College in California, he returned to the islands, ultimately...
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Honolulu City Council Considers Regulating ‘Monster Homes’
Reyna Sueoka said her nightmare began three years after she and her husband moved into their Palolo Valley home. In 2015, a developer bought the neighboring property and transformed it into a...
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Hawaii Psychiatric Patient Is Surprised His Escape Worked
FRENCH CAMP, Calif. (AP) — A man who acknowledges killing a woman nearly 40 years ago said Friday that he is surprised he was able to walk out of a Hawaii psychiatric hospital and make it to...
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Rail Board OKs Preliminary Step To Push Route Past Ala Moana
The board that oversees the Honolulu rail project voted Friday to ask the Honolulu City Council for the power to lay the groundwork to extend the rail line beyond its currently planned Ala Moana Center...
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Let’s Get Real About Fixing The Hawaii State Hospital
The spectacular break from confinement from the Hawaii State Hospital was like a made-for-TV movie. Randall Saito’s quick capture in California is a relief, but we need to take steps right now to...
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Reader Rep: State Hospital Escape Coverage Really Took Us Places
Mostly gone are the days of trusting a sole authoritative news source — such as The New York Times, Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite — telling us all the news fit to print, “and that’s the way it is.”...
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