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Developer Exploring Giant Wind Farm In West Oahu
The developer of Hawaii’s largest solar farm is considering building a major wind farm on Oahu’s west side, in a partnership with one of Hawaii’s prominent political families. Eurus Energy America...
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Hawaii Supreme Court Rules Some Extra-Long Sentences Unconstitutional
In 2003, Robert Flubacher pleaded guilty to multiple offenses, including charges he assaulted three people in a Waikele home with a knife and hammer. A state judge decided the 35-year-old man was a...
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Smartphones And The Decline Of The Human Spirit
I ride the bus to and from work every day, and on average at least 65 percent of the riders spend their entire transit time staring into their smartphones. Of those who don’t, at least half...
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Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka Dead At 93
Daniel Akaka, a longtime U.S. senator for Hawaii, has died. He was 93. The cause was organ failure, according to Donalyn Dela Cruz, who previously served as the senator’s press secretary in Washington,...
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Vietnamese Worker Saved 7 Lives When Hawaii Fishing Boat Sank
(AP) — Khanh Huynh has been a commercial fisherman since he was 12 years old. For the past six years, he’s been living on a fishing boat in Hawaii, catching premium ahi tuna for some of the world’s...
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Chad Blair: Dan Akaka Was The Gentlest Man In Washington
Memoirs are often the place for flagrant self-trumpeting and vindictive score settling. Not so with Dan Akaka’s 2017 memoir, “One Voice: My Life, Times and Hopes for Hawaii.” Consider one of the late...
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Candidates For Governor Focus On Native Hawaiian Issues At Forum
Seven candidates offered in broad strokes their vision and priorities — and occasionally revealed some of their quirks — during the first major event of Hawaii’s 2018 gubernatorial race Friday. The...
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Judge Gives Stevie Wonder Concert Scammer 5 Years In Prison
(AP) — A man who lied to the University of Hawaii about his ability to get Stevie Wonder to play at a fundraiser concert was sentenced Friday to nearly five years in prison. In an unexpected ruling,...
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Tom Yamachika: Can OHA Managers Avoid Their Responsibilities With LLCs?
Do you recognize any of these names: Hiilei Aloha LLC, Hiipaka LLC and Hookele Pono LLC? For one thing, all of them have “LLC” in their names. LLC is an abbreviation for limited liability company. An...
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Blue Planet: From ‘Harry Potter’ To Formidable Political Force
Several years ago, when then-Gov. Neil Abercrombie was crafting an energy policy for Hawaii, he was hardly impressed by Blue Planet Foundation’s ambitious plans for pushing the state into an...
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Letters: We’ve Named Too Many Things After Dan Inouye
Inouye And Sexual Harassment Hold off on naming things after him (April 4, 2018) The Civil Beat Dan Inouye/Megan Bailiff story by Anita Hofschneider shines some light on a long-overlooked corner of...
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Big Island: Why Many People May Lose Their Property This Week
HILO — Hundreds of Big Island property owners are on the verge of losing their land this week, most of them in two communities — Nanawale in Puna and Ocean View in Kau. “This will be a very unusually...
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Ige’s Pick To Lead School Board Has An Unusual Background: Education
Catherine Payne has been a teacher, vice principal and principal during her 36-year tenure with Hawaii’s public schools. Now she’s positioned to step into a new leadership role as chairwoman of the...
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Group Puts Constitutional Convention Question Under A Microscope
Over the past month or so I have been participating in an informal “Constitutional Convention Study Group.” The group is diverse, voluntary, and independent. None of the 16 participants are paid. Some...
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Filthy Bathrooms At This Popular Beach Park Are Creating A Stir
Pokai Bay Beach Park is a popular spot for beachgoers in Waianae, but some residents are upset about the state of its restrooms and water quality. During a recent visit, broken toilets were covered...
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The Everyday Ethical Challenges Of Self-Driving Cars
A lot of discussion and ethical thought about self-driving cars have focused on tragic dilemmas, like hypotheticals in which a car has to decide whether to run over a group of schoolchildren or plunge...
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Really? You’re Going To Let Mail-In Voting Die? Again?
Thursday brings another key deadline at the Hawaii Legislature for bills to advance or die. Unbelievably, one of those that appears dead on arrival is House Bill 2541, which calls for enacting voting...
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Kauai: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Has Few Friends On This Hawaiian Island
MOLOAA BAY, Kauai – As Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg attempts to fend off questions this week from two congressional committees about allowing data from 87 million users to fall into the hands of a...
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Edibles Could Be Coming Soon To Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Hawaii medical marijuana patients may not have to toil over the stove baking edibles for much longer. Amendments passed recently to House Bill 2729, a wide-ranging medical cannabis bill, would allow...
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Was The ‘Button Pusher’ A Problem Employee? State Won’t Release Details
In January, state emergency leaders roundly criticized the worker who errantly sent a text message warning thousands in Hawaii of an imminent ballistic missile attack as incompetent. The so-called...
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