Harry Kim Headed For Big Win In Big Island Mayor Race
Harry Kim appears likely to win the race for Hawaii County mayor and avoid a runoff in November. Kim, a former mayor, led Lau, a former managing director, 50.5 percent to 24.4 percent, when a third...
View ArticleCaldwell, Djou Headed For Runoff In Honolulu Mayor’s Race
Incumbent Kirk Caldwell led challenger Charles Djou 43.7 percent to 42.8 percent in the race for mayor of Honolulu, according to the third round of election results released just after 10 p.m....
View ArticleVoters Returning Most Incumbents To The Legislature
The Hawaii Legislature is on track to see few changes after this year’s election as many incumbents have no opponents and other races just aren’t competitive. All 51 House seats and half of the...
View ArticlePine’s Big Lead Means No Runoff
Honolulu City Councilwoman Kymberly Pine has won another term representing West Oahu. With all ballots counted late Saturday, she had 56 percent of the vote in a four-way race in District 1, which...
View ArticleChallenger Leading in Hawaii Island OHA Race
Challenger Mililani Trask posted a slight lead over incumbent Robert Lindsey Jr. in the Hawaii Island race for Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Lindsey, the OHA chair, had 25.1 percent of...
View ArticleHawaii Democrats Gather For Continuity As Much As Unity
The Democrat who spoke most passionately at the Democratic Party of Hawaii’s Unity Breakfast Sunday was a candidate who is not actually running as a Democrat this year. Yet, such is the influence of...
View ArticleThe Projector: Night Of Drama After Day Of Voter Apathy
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View ArticleVA Still Failing Its Mission To Serve Veterans
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs received a great deal of media coverage over the long wait times veterans faced just to see doctors. That became a hot political issue, as veterans...
View ArticlePod Squad Transcript: Hawaii’s News Business Takes It’s Licks From The Reader...
Chad Blair: Aloha everybody and welcome to another installment of the Pod Squad, as always Chad Blair with Honolulu Civil Beat. Today joining me is our Reader Rep, Brett Oppegaard. Did I pronounce that...
View ArticlePod Squad: Hawaii’s News Business Takes It’s Licks From The Reader Rep
University of Hawaii journalism professor Brett Oppegaard joins Pod Squad host Chad Blair this week. Oppegaard also writes the Reader Rep column that appears Mondays in Civil Beat. In this broad...
View ArticleTodd Simmons: Saturday’s Big Winner — Incumbency
If there are any lessons to be taken from Saturday’s primary election, they are small and incremental. Hawaii voters showed, once again, they prefer modest course corrections to big lunges to the left...
View ArticleHow Retail Ad Decline Is Hurting Newspapers — Even In Hawaii
Earlier this month, HBO’s John Oliver devoted the main segment of his weekly show, “Last Week Tonight,” to highlighting the dire state of local journalism. In a 19-minute rant that only he could...
View ArticleOpen Primary System Upheld
In a ruling Monday, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Wallace Tashima upheld Hawaii’s open primary elections that allow registered voters to choose any party’s ballot to cast their votes, the...
View ArticleLawsuit Over Homeless Sweeps A Step Closer To Settlement
A proposed settlement to end a landmark lawsuit over how the city has been conducting homeless sweeps cleared a hurdle Monday, with a federal judge recommending preliminary approval of the deal. The...
View ArticleHepatitis Outbreak Source Found
The Hawaii Department of Health has ordered the immediate closure of all Oahu and Kauai Genki Sushi restaurants after determining the likely source of the hepatitis A outbreak was imported frozen...
View ArticleWill Our Democracy Survive This Election? Yes, And Here’s How
The current presidential campaign is not the normal election of two or more political parties vying to determine who leads our country for the next four years. The Republican/Trump Party is a forced...
View ArticleHawaii Storytellers: An Escape From New York To A Clean Slate In Hawaii
Anthony Quintano reached his dream job as social-media editor at NBC’s “Today Show” in New York City. But not every dream is what it seems, and soon he felt trapped in a remorseless nightmare. In this...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Super PAC Says It’s Staying Out Of the Mayor’s Race
Now that it’s clear that former U.S. Rep. Charles Djou will be challenging incumbent Kirk Caldwell in the general election for Honolulu mayor, some political watchers were expecting the building trades...
View ArticleHealth Department Hiring Goes Slow — Will The Mosquitoes Wait?
The battle against mosquito-borne illnesses took on a sense of urgency when 264 Big Island residents were infected with dengue fever during a half-year outbreak that wasn’t quelled until last April....
View ArticleKealohas’‘Bizarre’ Legal Strategy: Filing Lawsuits And Going Public
In what legal observers call a risky strategy, Louis and Katherine Kealoha are using lawsuits and media interviews to take the offensive as they are investigated in a federal corruption probe. The...
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