Candidate Q&A: Honolulu City Council District 4 — Tommy Waters
Editor’s note: 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 came from Tommy Waters, one of...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: State House District 48 — Kika Bukoski
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: State House District 48 — Randy Gonce
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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Workers At Agency That Sent False Alert Were Seen Sleeping
(AP) — An employee of the Hawaii agency that mistakenly sent cellphone and broadcast alerts about an imminent missile attack earlier this year said he saw staff members watching movies or TV on the...
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This OHA Trustee Is Taking On The State Ethics Commission
A longtime trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is suing the Hawaii State Ethics Commission after the watchdog agency asked her to pay thousands of dollars in fines for alleged ethics violations....
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Economists: Public Employee Union Membership Is Bound To Drop
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling concerning union membership poses a critical question for government employee unions in Hawaii: Will workers continue to pay union dues when they don’t have...
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Letters: Labor Union Finances
Labor Union Dues Supreme Court got it right (June 27, 2018) Will someone please tell me why public employees need a union. When has their work ever been so dangerous, unpleasant or underpaid that they...
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Kauai: Biggest Local Election In A Generation
LIHUE, Kauai — Drowned out by the political cacophony of 2018 — the noise coming from dozens of races at the state and federal levels — Kauai County will stage its most consequential local election in...
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Political Intrigue: What This Consultant Is Doing In Hawaii Is A Mystery
There are two rules to work at Strategies 360, the Seattle-based public affairs, research and strategic communications firm that has recently ramped up its Hawaii operations, even convincing the...
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Do We Create Our Own Fake News?
As the moral divide has widened over the last year, the truly polarized nature of it has gotten out of control. Instead of opposing viewpoints stimulating positive discourse, it has become an all out...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: Honolulu City Council District 4 — Natalie Iwasa
Editor’s note: 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 came from Natalie Iwasa, one of...
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Hirono Bill Aims To Strengthen Unions
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono has an idea that she hopes will protect public sector workers against conservative attacks on organized labor and public sector unions. On Thursday, the Hawaii...
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Caldwell Wants To Make Sit-Lie Ban Islandwide At All Hours
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell unveiled plans Thursday to introduce legislation that could be used to force homeless people and their belongings off public property. The administration plans to introduce...
View ArticleCandidate Q&A: State House District 48 — Lisa Kitagawa
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: State House District 48 — Jessica Wooley
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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Civil Beat Wins Right To Intervene In HPD Arbitration Case
Civil Beat has been allowed to intervene in an ongoing battle over records detailing an arbitrator’s reasoning on why a Honolulu police officer fired for domestic violence should get his job back....
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Mental Health Is Another Casualty In The Ongoing Volcanic Eruption
Kent Andersen saved for seven years to afford to move his family to Hawaii. When he purchased 10 acres of Puna jungle in 2013, he started building a home — “our little slice of heaven” — using the...
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Big Island: Tallying The Growing Cost Of A Multimillion-Dollar Eruption
PUNA, Hawaii Island – With the Kilauea eruption roaring into its third month, disaster-related costs are adding up faster than the lava river steaming to the sea. Total government spending is...
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A Time To Remember Who We Really Are
Into a day filled with the poison of Trumpian taunts and Supreme Court rulings that trashed America’s traditions, came the antidote of poetry. Listening to Cathy Song and Naomi Shihab Nye read from...
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UH Groups Play Big Roles In Hawaiian Language Version of ‘Moana’
The animated film “Moana” is the first Walt Disney Company picture to ever be re-recorded in the Hawaiian language, a project accomplished in collaboration with the University of Hawaii. The...
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