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Ala Moana High Rise Developer Removes ‘Poor Door’ From Proposal
The developer of ProsPac Tower, a proposed 400-foot condominium tower near Ala Moana Center, has withdrawn plans to include a separate entrance for lower-income residents. Instead, the proposed...
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Why Keep Developing Kakaako And Waikiki As The Sea Rises?
You’ve probably heard that sea level rise will overtake Waikiki and other coastal areas by the end of the century and its first effects will show by mid-century. Environmentalists have been talking...
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Hawaii Legislators Must Fix The Broken Workers’ Comp System
Civil Beat’s special project on Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system, Waiting In Pain, revealed that a process to help people who are hurt on the job is actually weighted in favor of insurance...
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Why Vocational Education Is Back In Vogue in Some Hawaii Schools
Like thousands of public school students in Hawaii, Francis Toto Mailo spends at least part of his school day outside of a traditional classroom. On a recent Thursday morning, the 18-year-old was in...
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State Pays To Keep Kona ‘Safe Zone’ Open For Homeless
The Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness voted Tuesday to provide $25,000 in state funds to Hawaii County to continue operating Camp Kikaha, a legal homeless encampment in Kona on Hawaii Island...
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Exxon Promises More Transparency On Climate Change Risk
Exxon Mobil Corp. has vowed to do a better job in disclosing the risks it faces from climate change starting “in the near future” after bucking pressure to do that for years. Until now, shareholders...
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Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell Builds A New-Look Police Commission
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell will soon have a Police Commission completely of his own making. Last week Caldwell nominated construction industry lobbyist Shannon Alivado to the commission. If she’s...
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‘Devastation’ Discovered In Deep Sea From Industrial Fishing
Miles of fishing line, trawling gear and huge nets have decimated ancient coral reefs at undersea mountains in remote areas of the Pacific, a recent research expedition has found. A team of scientists,...
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Report: There Are Worse Places To Be Than Hawaii In A Health Emergency
Hawaii is generally more prepared for a public health crisis than most states, according to a new report. The Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit health policy organization, ranked the Aloha State...
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We Should Look Anew At Real Estate Investment Trusts
This past year Alexander & Baldwin announced, like many Hawaii commercial real estate companies before it, that it too, would become a real estate investment trust. At this rate, I too, would like...
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Health Beat: Are Primary Care Providers Becoming Obsolete?
Primary care is changing, and where it’s headed is honestly a mystery even to me, a veteran in the field for almost two decades. With the marriage of pharmacy and insurance giants in the recently...
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Helicopters Endlessly Shatter The Quiet Of A Kauai Canyon
Chad Blair’s recent column about noise was very timely. Especially when Civil Defense emergency sirens cannot be heard in Waikiki. I fled Honolulu due to the impact of traffic noise, light, pollution...
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Hawaii Delegates Speak Out Against GOP Tax Bill ‘Scam’
The four members of Hawaii’s all-Democrat congressional delegation roundly denounced the Republican tax bill — “the biggest changes to the tax code in decades,” The Hill reported — which was approved...
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Trump Nominates Honolulu Attorney Jill Otake For Federal Judgeship
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday the nomination of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill Otake of Honolulu to be a judge in the federal District Court of Hawaii. The position became vacant in 2015 when...
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City Repaves Aggressively But Falls Behind On Other Roadwork
Mayor Kirk Caldwell, who has spent much of his time in office struggling with repeated rail project crises, got a chance last week to tout one of his administration’s clearest victories — keeping a...
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It’s Advent — What Are DC Republicans Bringing To The Manger?
Advent is the season when Christians begin preparations for the journey that will lead to the manger. The Republicans are excited because they have reached agreement on the gifts they plan to offer the...
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Pitching Politics To Increasingly Polarized Independents
After the 1992 election, a Bill Clinton pollster, Mark Penn, conducted a post-election survey. He found that President Clinton had won because he had followed the Democratic Leadership Council’s...
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Neal Milner: Three Oahu Attractions That Might Brighten Your Holidays
Holiday pressures getting to you? My season’s gifts are three things that will help you relax, divert and decompress. As a package, it’s the Quirky Oahu Tour. I’m not talking tour as in vacation...
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Chad Blair: A Maui Publisher Notches A First Amendment Win
Tommy Russo’s life changed forever the morning of Nov. 20, 2012. That’s when the MauiTime publisher was arrested after videotaping two Maui County police officers with his iPhone as the cops were...
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4 Hawaii Lawmakers Have Received Sexual Misconduct Complaints Since 2008
(AP) — Four Hawaii lawmakers have been the subject of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct complaints since 2008, an Associated Press investigation has found. Three of the complaints were filed...
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