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State May Divert $500,000 A Year To Cover Its Own Rail Project Costs
Last week, Mayor Kirk Caldwell proposed that city taxpayers’ “skin in the game” to help pay for the Honolulu rail project should grow from $161 million to $215 million. A measure moving through the...
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Feds Say Hawaii Falls Short In Dealing With School Bullying
Nearly half of the Hawaii public school students who said they’d been bullied or harassed at school in recent years did not report the incidents, often because they felt school officials wouldn’t do...
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Reasonable Gun Regulation For All Of Us
Nearly one month ago, 17 students at a Florida high school were murdered by one of their peers. The collective pain of this and other such school massacres has triggered a nationwide, student-led...
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Black-Footed Albatross Chicks Take Refuge From Climate Change On Oahu
The chicks had a terrible case of bed head, but it wasn’t from the 1,300-mile boat ride they took last month to Oahu from deep within Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern...
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Chad Blair: Guns Suddenly Become An Issue In Governor’s Race
Hawaii may be ranked among the safest states in the nation when it comes to gun violence, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming a political issue locally. Several gun-control measures are moving...
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Hawaii House Passes Medical Aid In Dying Bill
After a round of emotional floor speeches, the Hawaii House voted 39-12 Tuesday in favor of legalizing medical aid in dying for terminally ill adults. Reps. Henry Aquino, Romy Cachola, Isaac Choy, Ty...
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Hawaii Senate Approves Putting Mauna Kea Under New Management
The Hawaii Senate on Tuesday passed a measure to wrest management of Mauna Kea from the University of Hawaii and establish a new entity to oversee the Big Island mountaintop. The summit of Mauna Kea is...
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Tighter Gun Restrictions Among Hundreds Of Bills Moving Ahead
The Hawaii Senate passed two bills to toughen gun laws Tuesday, sending the measures to the House of Representatives for further consideration despite opposition from gun rights activists. Senate bills...
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Some Guidance For UH Board Of Regents On Maunakea
I am writing this as an individual who has been closely involved in the Thirty Meter Telescope issue. I also happen to be a PUEO board member. PUEO (Perpetuating Unique Educational Opportunities) was...
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Science Suggests US Should Revise Legal Age Limits For Various Privileges
Societies have long grappled with where to draw the chronological age boundary between adolescence and adulthood. The United States stands apart from most of the world in that it uses different ages...
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Goat Hunters Say State’s Aerial Shooting Threatens A Traditional Food Source
Leeward Coast hunters fear that a traditional source of sustenance may be lost due to an effort by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to restore watersheds through aerial shooting of feral...
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Are Chemical Companies More Important Than Voters?
I’ve been on a long journey for many years. But I have not reached my destination. Year after year I have testified in front of the Kauai County Council. I have flown at my own expense to Honolulu to...
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Study: New Federal Tax Law Will Hurt Many Honolulu Homeowners
Some Honolulu homeowners will get hit hard by the new tax law signed by President Donald Trump. A study by the real estate company Apartment List found that the median Honolulu homeowner will lose more...
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Hawaii Federal Judge Nomination Offers Glimpse Of Partisan Dealmaking
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jill Otake, a federal prosecutor from Hawaii, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday as part of her confirmation to become a new U.S. District Court judge. It...
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Navy Wife Who Lost Kidneys After Giving Birth Awarded $24.7M
(AP) — A woman who lost both her kidneys when she went to an Army hospital for the birth of her third child has been awarded $24.7 million. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang found that Marites...
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When It Comes To School Breakfast, We Can Do Better
It is National School Breakfast Week, when schools and districts across the nation celebrate the benefits of a healthy school breakfast. But in Hawaii, we don’t have as much to celebrate. Our state...
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State Plans To Sweep Longtime Homeless Camp At Waianae Boat Harbor
It was news that homeless advocates have been dreading for years: After more than a decade of letting people camp on undeveloped land near the Waianae Boat Harbor, the state is now moving forward with...
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Letters: ‘Assault Weapons Designed For War’
Chemical Use On Kauai Organize! Be Restless! (March 7, 2018) I just read Klayton Kubo’s post on CB. I will go much further than his urgent asking to know what is in the pesticide spraying. I have a...
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Neal Milner: There’s Change Afoot In America And We Don’t See It Coming
Researchers Theda Skocpol and Lara Putnam recently spent months in American communities investigating what’s happened since the 2016 presidential election. Their key finding in a piece entitled “Middle...
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House Shaves $35 Million From Governor’s Budget
The House Finance Committee on Wednesday trimmed $35 million from Gov. David Ige’s proposed $7.4 billion state spending plan for next fiscal year, which begins July 1. But Chair Sylvia Luke cautioned...
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