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Caldwell Vetoes Bill To Cap Uber And Lyft Prices
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell vetoed a bill Tuesday that aims to limit how much Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing companies can charge customers when demand surges. “Surge pricing” occurs when...
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Here’s A New Twist In The Honolulu Corruption Case
On Oct. 8, 2015, Tiffany Masunaga, an accused drug dealer, cut a deal with Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro that she hoped would keep her out of prison. Instead, her attorney says, she’s...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: State House District 9 — Andrew V. Kayes
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View ArticleCandidate Q&A: State House District 50 — Cynthia Thielen
Editor’s note: For Hawaii’s Aug. 11 primary, Civil Beat asked candidates to answer some questions about where they stand on various issues and what their priorities will be if elected. The following...
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Big Island: Council Rejects Tax Hike To Replace Revenue Lost To Eruption
HILO, Hawaii Island – A proposal to increase the Big Island’s general excise tax to cover millions of dollars in eruption-related revenue losses was defeated on a 5-4 vote of the Hawaii County Council...
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Why A Hawaii Senator Wants To Stop A Coal-Fired Plant In Kenya
WASHINGTON — An archipelago in Kenya is the latest battleground in U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz’s ongoing fight against global climate change. In May, Schatz and several other left-leaning senators,...
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Letters: City Workers At Risk?
Sick City Hall The Natatorium all over again (June 19, 2018) Regarding the article “Is Honolulu Hale Making City Staffers Sick?” I feel that we are once again living in Groundhog Day on this issue....
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Gene Ward: What We Should Make Of Singapore And Trump
Only in international relations can saber rattling and name calling be turned into handshakes and smiles, and that’s just what happened in Singapore. “President Donald J. Trump of the United States of...
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Saving Hawaii’s GOP: A Tough Job For 3 Candidates For Governor
Hawaii’s Republican voters face a sharp choice in the race to carry the party banner into the gubernatorial election — and try to rescue the GOP from virtual irrelevance in state politics. State Rep....
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Rep. Kaniela Ing Fined $15,000 For Campaign Spending Violations
State Rep. Kaniela Ing, a candidate the 1st Congressional District, has been fined more than $15,000 for using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and filing false reports. Ing was cited on 31...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: OHA Trustee At Large — Keali’i Makekau
Editor’s note: For Hawaii’s Aug. 11 primary, Civil Beat asked candidates to answer some questions about where they stand on various issues and what their priorities will be if elected. The following...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: OHA Trustee At-Large — Leina’ala Ahu Isa
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UH Scientist Reports Promising Development In Alzheimer’s Research
Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States and affects 28,000 Hawaii residents, but a scientist at the University of Hawaii is reporting a research breakthrough that...
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Do Your Homework This Election Year
We suffer from a very dangerous disease. Its name is apathy. As a youngster in the early 1950s, I was exposed to the horrors of war via the NBC television series “Victory at Sea.” More recently, the...
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Here’s The Spending That Got OHA Incumbents In Trouble
It’s been four years since John Waihee IV paid for a seat upgrade on a business trip from Honolulu to Washington, D.C. He says he barely remembers the details but thinks he was anxious about having a...
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Neal Milner: Treat Hawaii’s Housing Shortage Like The Disaster It Is
“They screwed us,” is how Michelle Ishikawa put it. Ishikawa is a renter at 7000 Hawaii Kai who, much to her surprise, is soon to become a former renter. Only two years after the building opened, its...
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‘It’s Very Personal To Me:’ Hirono Slams Trump’s Immigration Policy
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono is frustrated. During a press conference with Democratic lawmakers Tuesday, the Hawaii Democrat had a stern message for President Donald Trump about his...
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Supreme Court Hears New Arguments Over Thirty Meter Telescope
(AP) — The Hawaii Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday over whether a hearing officer’s membership in an astronomy center impacted her decision to grant a permit for a giant telescope project....
View ArticleSlideshow: The Big Island’s Latest Scenes Of Destruction
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View ArticleCandidate Q&A: State House District 20 — Calvin Say
Editor’s note: For Hawaii’s Aug. 11 primary, Civil Beat asked candidates to answer some questions about where they stand on various issues and what their priorities will be if elected. The following...
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