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Legislators Push To Send $100 Million To Kauai For Flood Damage
Hawaii legislators are rushing to send $100 million to rain-soaked Kauai and make $25 million available statewide for damage caused by last weekend’s deluge. The Kauai money would be used to reopen...
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Hawaii Seems Poised To Ban Coral-Damaging Sunscreen
Environmental groups and lawmakers gathered Wednesday at the Capitol in support of a bill to ban coral-damaging sunscreens. Senate Bill 2571 would prohibit the sale of sunscreen with oxybenzone and...
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Here’s Why The Weather Experts Didn’t See The Kauai Storm Coming
The storms that pummeled Kauai, Oahu and parts of other islands last weekend seemed to pop up out of nowhere. At 10 a.m. Friday, less than 12 hours before a deluge hit windward and east Oahu, this is...
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Kupuna Caregivers Program Deserves More Money
No two caregiving stories are alike: There’s the story of a wife who had to take time off from work to provide care for her husband after his terminal diagnosis; the college-age son who becomes a...
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Study: Few Hawaii Students Have Access To After-School Meals
Hawaii outshines most other states when it comes to providing after-school programs for elementary-age kids. But there’s one area where it seriously lags behind: serving meals during those hours to...
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Health Beat: Feds Should Stop Restricting Medical Marijuana Research
Allergies — there are pills for that. Back pain, headaches — pills for those too. These days it’s almost impossible to think of a medical condition for which not one Food and Drug...
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Kauai Storm Was Bad And Ugly, But The Good Was Overwhelming
In every disaster, there’s good, bad and ugly. This one, too. Ugly is the storm itself, a system that dumped unprecedented volumes of rain, and which persisted over the same Kauai North Shore valleys...
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Co-Defendant In UH Concert Scam Gets 2 Months In Jail
(AP) — A Florida man was sentenced Thursday to two months in jail and four months home confinement for his role in scamming the University of Hawaii out of $200,000 for a Stevie Wonder concert that...
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Nanakuli Village Center: Big Plans But Few Results So Far
Nanakuli’s mountains and homes are the first things you see driving up Oahu’s leeward coast, ending abruptly at an empty, overgrown field. There are big plans for the field — plans that have been...
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Letters: Mainland Views On Kauai Floods
The Kauai Floods A land of peace and beauty (April 19, 2018) I have been traveling to Kauai for over 20 years (“Kauai: The Path To Recovery In Hanalei Will Be A Long One”). I cannot tell you how...
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Big Island: Saving Reefs One Sunscreen Container At A Time
KAHALUU BAY, Hawaii Island – A Big Island nonprofit isn’t waiting for the Hawaii Legislature, which may soon ban the sale of sunscreen products containing the coral reef-damaging chemical oxybenzone....
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How Will Honolulu Pay To Run Rail Once It’s Built? The City Still Doesn’t Know
Honolulu’s City Council leaders are struggling with how to cover millions of dollars in new rail construction costs so they can appease the Federal Transit Administration. They’ve proposed squeezing...
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Lifeline To Kauai’s North Shore Must Be Rebuilt Now, Relocated Later
A dozen landslides shut down the lone road to the farthest reaches of Kauai’s North Shore during last weekend’s monster rainstorm, and Kuhio Highway remains closed between Waikoko and Wainiha,...
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Hawaii Democrats Have Failed Criminal Justice Reform
We will elect a governor this year, and chances are heavily in favor of the winner being a Democrat — likely either the incumbent, or a member of the U.S. Congress. The Democratic Party of Hawaii has a...
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Lowering The Voting Age Should Be Our Next Great Cause
Where does #MarchForOurLives go next? As we all sit here after the March for Our Lives, everyone should think more broadly about what I’ll broadly term “kid power.” Sure, if Hillary Clinton would have...
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House, Senate Agree To $14 Billion State Budget Bill
Hawaii lawmakers rushed through the overall state budget bill Friday so they could move forward with a plan to appropriate $125 million in disaster aid for flood-damaged Kauai and parts of Oahu. Senate...
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Tom Yamachika: Bills Transform Like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
In last week’s article, I said we should look forward to lots of surprises as lawmakers press forward with our legislative session with techniques such as “gut and replace” to give our legislative...
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Lawmakers Question Whether State Should Buy Kauai Farmland
A state agriculture agency that’s already getting scrutiny from legislators because of its resistance to being audited is looking to make a major property acquisition on Kauai. The deal would include...
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Hawaii House Needs To Beef Up Harassment Rules — Now
Joe Souki left the Hawaii House of Representatives more than three weeks ago, but the chamber’s woefully inadequate policy on sexual harassment and sexual misconduct remains. In fact, the House hasn’t...
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Why Honolulu Rail Will Be A Moot Point
The Honolulu rail transit project is now projected to be completed nine years from now, in late 2025. If you recall, it was also originally budgeted at $5 billion. So unless you still believe in Santa...
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