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Ige: Hawaii Not Ready For Police Standards Board
Hawaii Gov. David Ige announced Monday that he tentatively plans to veto 11 bills that the Legislature passed last session, including measures to tax resort fees, allow cannabis as a drug to treat...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: U.S. House District 1 — Ed Case
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: U.S. House District 1 — Ernie Martin
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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Businessman Runs For Senate In Hawaii — And Several Other States
A California millionaire businessman who sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 has filed to run for the U.S. Senate in seven states, including Hawaii. Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, 63, is...
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Letters: Doctors Are People Too
Sick Leave Unnecessary procedures (June 25, 2018) Not to forget that when you send someone home for three days, the human resources department demands a Family Medical Leave Act form, some six pages...
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How Hawaii Governor Candidates Would Handle Burgeoning Pension Debt
One of the biggest challenges facing Hawaii’s next governor is one that’s virtually unavoidable and rarely discussed outside of government circles: the ongoing challenge of covering pensions and...
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Why Hawaii Doesn’t Publish An Official Voters’ Guide
Hawaii, a state known for low voter turnout, doesn’t do enough to encourage people to vote, say representatives of two good government organizations. While many states distribute information pamphlets...
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Denby Fawcett: Race Still Matters In Hawaii Politics
I was surprised recently when political analyst Dan Boylan said in a TV interview that Ed Case has an advantage by being the only haole in Hawaii’s crowded 1st Congressional District race — the urban...
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Campaign Corner: The Real Progressive In The Race
For those inspired by Bernie Sanders’ mantra that we deserve better than career politicians who are bought and sold by corporations, we can now wrap our enthusiasm around Kaniela Ing, candidate for...
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Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban In Split Decision
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban in a 5 to 4 decision that split along partisan lines with the conservative justices in the majority. The ruling, written...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: Lieutenant Governor — Steve Lipscomb
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: Governor — Ray L’Heureux
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: Governor — Ernest Caravalho
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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On Campus: Here’s What Happens When Kids Do The Podcast
Pomaikai Elementary students practice with recorders and microphones.Cory Lum/Civil Beat What is an arts integrated school exactly? It’s a question Civil Beat reporters started asking last summer, when...
View ArticleNew! Hawaii Civics 101: Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Thoughts on this or any other story? Write a Letter to the Editor. Send to news@civilbeat.org and put Letter in the subject line. 200 words max. You need to use your name and city and include a...
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Big Island: Puna Residents Set Up This Awesome Center For Volcano Refugees
PAHOA, Hawaii Island — At a picnic table in a sprawling improvised complex of tarp shelters, Howard Konanui sat with new friends, wrapping plastic forks, knives and spoons in paper napkins. “I really...
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New Dialysis Clinics Finally Open
A Moiliili dialysis clinic held its grand opening ceremony Tuesday after sitting virtually unused for three years, the victim of a slow state inspection process. The U.S. Renal Care Beretania Dialysis...
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The Reality Of Rail
Now that rail is heading our way, it is time to learn about the daily “Reality of Rail.” Here are 10 questions about rail that have had very little discussion. Question #1: After 11 years of paying the...
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Senate Votes To Give Missile Alert Authority To Feds
WASHINGTON — All it took was the false threat of a nuclear missile headed to Hawaii to get the U.S. Senate to work together. On Tuesday, senators unanimously passed legislation that would take the...
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Supreme Court Deals A Major Blow To Public Sector Unions
WASHINGTON — Public sector unions lost big Wednesday when the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it’s a violation of the First Amendment to force nonmember workers to pay membership...
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