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Looming Supreme Court Case Could Weaken Hawaii’s Unions
Hawaii’s powerful public-sector unions are bracing for a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could weaken their collective bargaining efforts for tens of thousands of local workers and, ultimately, their...
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Paid Family Leave In Hawaii Really Is Possible
Hawaii legislators are considering two measures regarding family leave, Senate Bill 2990 and House Bill 2598. Research shows paid family leave helps families and businesses. Hawaii needs it now....
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Taking Inspiration From Kay Graham And The Bearded Lady
When I was 5, the most terrifying event in my life was changing to a new elementary school as a first-grader — from Hilo Union in downtown Hilo where I was a joyful, laughing kindergartner, to...
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Letters: ‘The Biting Shallow Tone Of Comments’
Killing Comments Public Square Gone Wrong (Feb. 27, 2018) I’m sorry to hear about the comments section closing in Civil Beat, but I understand the decision. For the first year or so the comment space...
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Coming Soon To Ala Moana: Another 400-Foot Tower
The Ala Moana neighborhood is poised to get a third 400-foot tower after a unanimous vote by the Honolulu City Council on Wednesday granted the developer of ProsPac Tower waivers of height, density and...
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HPD Lieutenant Seeks Separate Trials In Police Corruption Case
(AP) — A Honolulu police lieutenant indicted in a corruption case is asking for a separate trial. Lt. Derek Hahn’s attorney filed a motion Wednesday saying the indictment against former chief Louis...
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Auditor: PUC Isn’t Keeping Its Eye On ‘Big-Picture Matters’
A new state audit out Wednesday finds that Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission generally lacks the proper tools and guidance for its staff to keep up with its heavy caseload. Further, the PUC still...
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Chad Blair: Should Hawaii Politicians Accept Mainland Cash?
The National Governors Association held its winter meeting in the nation’s capital late last month, and Hawaii’s chief executive was in attendance. Along with a briefing at the White House, meetings on...
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It Takes All Of Us To Prevent Teen Suicide
They are dying. Our youth are dying. We are losing the war. We may be winning some battles, but we are losing the war. Fighting for higher minimum wage is great. Fighting to ban bump stocks on guns is...
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Letters: Reject ‘Hollow, State-Sanctioned Suicide’
Aid In Dying Euthanasia Subject To Abuse (Feb. 28, 2018) The article “Medical Aid In Dying Bill Generates An Emotional 5-Hour Hearing” perpetuates the lie of self administration. House Bill 2739 uses...
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VIDEO: See Why These Storytellers Packed Them In At The Theater
“Home” means different things to different people. Six speakers explored the theme when Civil Beat hosted its first Hawaii Storytellers event of the year on Feb. 23 before a full house at Kumu Kahua...
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Tax Dollars May Get Tapped To Fly Homeless Out Of Hawaii
Tina Brunner stepped off an airplane in December and breathed in the Honolulu air, far warmer than what she’d left behind in Ohio. She had an apartment lined up and planned to help a friend launch a...
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Title IX Is Not Just About School Athletics
Parents with girls who plan to pursue high school sports, please take note. You may be surprised to learn 14 high schools do not have athletic lockers for female students, while having such facilities...
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Homeless People Offered Trailer With Showers, Toilets
(AP) — A nonprofit group has started towing a 26-foot trailer around Oahu to provide homeless people a place to get clean. Annie Valentin, executive director of Project Vision Hawaii, said the hygiene...
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Hawaii Nurse Awarded Nearly $4M For Harassment
(AP) — A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox. A jury on Wednesday awarded former...
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Letters: We Need To Demand A Stop To Derelict Vehicles
Flying Homeless This Is Good Journalism (March 1, 2018) Natanya Friedheim’s piece on the local program to return homeless people to their state of origin focuses on an important issue using bare facts...
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Attempt To Have Judge Arrested Fails In Coco Palms Case
A Kauai judge has struck down an attempt to arrest another judge who presided over the contentious land dispute that resulted in the shutdown of a protesters’ camp on the grounds of the decrepit Coco...
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Alan McNarie: Man-Made Disasters Are What Really Worry The Big Island
HILO — Hawaii Island’s planners and first responders are used to coping with a huge range of potential disasters, from lava flows and tsunamis to wildfires to torrential rains. If only their potential...
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UH Takeover Of Innovation Center Is Raising Tech Community Eyebrows
In a nondescript white building in Manoa, a seven-person team of physicists and engineers at Nalu Scientific is working to help answer the mind-bending question of why the universe exists. It’s heady...
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