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‘Lime’ Rental Scooters Invade Honolulu With Mixed Results
In the first four days after a fleet of white, black, and lime-colored electric scooters suddenly materialized on the streets of Honolulu, the rental company that put them there — Lime — reports there...
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Campaign Corner: Sexual Harassment Requires Action Now
Editor’s Note: Mary D. Wagner, a Democrat, is a candidate for state representative in the 8th District (Kahakuloa, Waihee, Waiehu, Puuohala, Wailuku). As a longtime constituent of former Rep. Joseph...
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Toxic Lot In Maili May Finally Get Cleaned Up
State and federal officials say they will finally move forward with the clean up of highly toxic PCBs that have been present for decades near homes and schools on the west side of Oahu. The state...
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New Super PAC With Pro-Rail Ties Emerges In Hawaii Elections
There’s a new super PAC in town. Well, at least the name. Joshua Magno, of the pro-rail Pacific Resource Partnership consortium of contractors, recently formed All Hawaii Stand Together, a political...
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Civil Beat Wins National Award For Guam Sex Abuse Coverage
“Faith Betrayed,” a Honolulu Civil Beat story about Guam’s reckoning with the torturous legacy of decades of sexual abuse by local priests, has been awarded the Sally Jacobsen International Perspective...
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Kilauea Volcano Sends Ash Plume 30,000 Feet Into The Air
HONOLULU — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted anew before dawn Thursday, spewing a steely gray plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky that began raining down on a nearby town. The explosion at the...
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Hawaii Congressional Candidate Accused Of Campaign Violations
The state Campaign Spending Commission has filed a complaint against Rep. Kaniela Ing, saying he has filed false reports, accepted excessive contributions and used his campaign funds for personal...
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Kilauea Eruption Prompts US Senate Action On Volcano Monitoring
WASHINGTON — The same day Kilauea shot ash 30,000 feet into the air on Hawaii’s Big Island, the U.S. Senate passed bipartisan legislation that aims to create an early warning system for volcanoes....
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Campaign Corner: OHA Uses Misleading Data About Hawaiians
Editor’s Note: Samuel Wilder King II is a candidate for OHA trustee at-large. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has spent millions of dollars developing voter rolls in an attempt to push federal...
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How Bill Cosby Broke America’s Heart
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman resigned earlier this month, hours after The New Yorker published an article in which four women accused him of physical abuse. This came soon after the...
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Letters: Life In The ‘Punaverse’
Puna Land Schemes Why do people live there? (May 16, 2018) Kudos to Alan McNarie and Civil Beat for this comprehensive yet succinct explanation of how so many people came to live on and near a...
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These Blue Beach Chairs Are Riling The Ala Moana Regulars
Every morning surfers wade in the ocean a few hundred yards off Ala Moana Regional Park on Oahu’s south shore. Never turn your back on the ocean, they’re told, but the Koolau mountain range offers a...
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Big Island: It’s Nearly Impossible To Find A Place To Rent These Days
An exodus of lava evacuees is straining East Hawaii’s limited housing supply, forcing disaster victims to compete for long-term shelter in areas considered safe from hazardous volcanic emissions. And...
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Chad Blair: Harry Kim Shouldn’t Get A Pass On Racist Comment
At least Harry Kim didn’t say “popolo.” Or worse, use the N-word. But Hawaii County’s mayor, by referring to an African-American FEMA employee as “that colored guy in the back there” — in a public...
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Scientists Unsure When Kilauea Volcano Will Go Quiet
VOLCANO, Hawaii — Experts remained flummoxed Friday about when Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano will calm down. The volcano exploded at its summit Thursday, sending ash and rocks thousands of feet into the...
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Warning: Fast-Moving Lava May Isolate 40 More Big Island Homes
PAHOA, Hawaii — Hawaii officials are checking with residents to see if they need help as fast-moving lava approaches a mostly rural part of the Big Island. Hawaii County Civil Defense said late Friday...
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Big Island Lava Flows Destroy 4 More Homes
PAHOA, Hawaii — Lava creeping across roadways destroyed four homes and left dozens of others in the shadow of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano isolated Saturday, forcing more residents to plan for a possible...
View ArticleSLIDESHOW: Hawaii Bids A Final Aloha To Sen. Daniel Akaka
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Hawaii Lava Flow Ramps Up
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — In the weeks since Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began erupting, dozens of homes have burned from oozing lava, people have fled their homes and plumes of steam from the summit have shot...
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Tom Yamachika: Finding The Magic Bullet For Rail Costs
In a recent hearing in the Honolulu City Council’s Budget Committee, council leaders say that they might have found a “magic bullet” – one that they say will get the city’s share of rail funding done...
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