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Denby Fawcett: Homeless Sweeps Have Become ‘Free Maid Service’
The Legislature this week is expected to approve a $30 million project to divert Hawaii’s homeless to legal safe zones, three on Oahu and one each on Maui, Hawaii Island and Kauai. The legal homeless...
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OHA Trustee Under Investigation For Accepting $72,000 From Heiress
The Hawaii State Ethics Commission is investigating Rowena Akana, a longtime trustee for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, for accepting improper gifts and misusing trust funds. The ethics commission...
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A Brighter Future For Kupuna Would Be A Dream Come True
Allow me to dream big for a moment, for it’s often through dreams and accidents that we become the beneficiaries of great and wondrous things. In this dream, the state of Hawaii provides basic income...
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Letters: Let Lava Vendors Stay Where They Are
The Road To Lava Viewing Site For the sake of residents and vendors, keep the parking lot where it is (April 30, 2018) I’ve walked the road with my visiting family and friends to the used-to-be-active...
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Hawaii Inequality Study Overlooked Thousands of Micronesians
Tamera Heine was at work when she saw the headline: “Racial Inequality In Hawaii Is A Lot Worse Than You Think.” The story summarized a state report saying Marshallese people have the highest poverty...
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Kauai: Rum Distilleries Keep Hawaii’s Sugar Industry Alive
KOLOA, Kauai — There’s a wood sign on the outskirts of Koloa on Kauai’s south shore that reads simply: “Hawaii’s Oldest Plantation Town.” The first commercial sugar refinery in the islands opened in...
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Earthquakes, Crater Collapse On Kilauea May Indicate New Eruption
(AP) — A series of earthquakes and the collapse of the crater floor at the Puu Oo vent on Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano could trigger a new eruption of lava, officials said Tuesday. Scientists from the...
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Chinatown Sidewalk Extensions Please Some But Infuriate Others
Eleven sidewalk extensions installed last July at four intersections in Chinatown are causing a ruckus at Honolulu Hale. At a City Council Planning Committee meeting Tuesday, Councilwoman Carol...
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Honolulu Rail Project Loses Its Top Right-Of-Way Official
Honolulu’s rail agency continues to struggle to retain its top-level leaders — those who oversee the largest and arguably most complex public works project in the state’s history. On Tuesday, Andrew...
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Chad Blair: The Most Progressive Legislative Session In A Long Time
Doing his best Bob Dylan, a state senator literally sang the praises of the Hawaii Legislature on Tuesday. Strumming a guitar and blowing a harmonica, Mike Gabbard opened the Senate floor session by...
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Letters: The Plague of Dockless Rental Bikes
‘Ugly Unregulated Chunks Of Metal’ The infestation spreads (May 1, 2018) One of my sons, raised on Oahu, just visited from the oceanside suburb of San Diego where he now lives. He had been commenting...
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Health Beat: Let’s Start Assuming People Want To Be Organ Donors
Hawaii has one of the highest rates of kidney disease in the United States. Currently there are 430 patients on a transplant waiting list in the islands. End-stage renal (kidney) disease put about 93...
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Legislature Approves Bill To Protect Against Sex-Based Discrimination
Hawaii moved a step closer to expanding protections for students discriminated against on the basis of sex, gender identity or sexual orientation when the Legislature passed a bill Tuesday establishing...
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Underground Magma On The Move As Quakes Rattle Volcano
(AP) — Dozens of earthquakes were rattling Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano on Wednesday as underground magma moved into a new area east of the Puu Oo vent. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey’s...
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Hawaii Seeks Federal Disaster Assistance For Flood-Ravaged Kauai
The lone road to the farthest reaches of Kauai’s North Shore, ravaged by an epic mid-April storm, is not expected to reopen to normal vehicular traffic until late July or early August. The timeline,...
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Meet The Punk Rock Roller Skating Cheesecake Maker From Kaimuki
Go into Scott “Otto” McDonough’s bakery on a given day, and you’ll find a half a dozen flavors of cheesecake, baked in a Sears home oven, sold by the slice for cash only and rung up on an old wooden...
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Hawaii Teacher: Here’s Why Arts Education Is Worth Fighting For
The bell will ring in 5 minutes and clay is everywhere. Artist Hannah Shun is showing fourth-graders how to score clay. Plastic forks in hand, students rake across the clay adding texture to the smooth...
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Hawaii’s Conservative Democrats Leave Workers Struggling To Survive
Today, many people admire Martin Luther King Jr. for his initiative and passion in the fight for racial equality. However, what many do not know is that at the time of his assassination, a majority of...
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Roll Call: Here’s The Best And Worst Attendance Of Legislators This Session
Part of a Hawaii legislator’s job is to attend the 60 days of floor sessions from January to mid-May. That’s where lawmakers may vote on bills or resolutions, appointments, debate amendments, make...
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Why No One Wants To Blow The Whistle On Sexual Misconduct
The recent resignation of a top Hawaii lawmaker who admitted to repeated sexual harassment only scratches the surface of a much deeper problem at the State Capitol, where the local tendency to “no talk...
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