State Investigating Placement Of Human Remains At TMT Site
The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources is investigating a case in which someone allegedly disinterred human remains and put them in a shrine at the proposed site of the controversial...
View ArticleCatholic Charities Hawaii Will Run New Kakaako Homeless Center
Catholic Charities Hawaii has been selected to operate the new homeless center in Kakaako. Gov. David Ige announced the nonprofit as the service provider of the Kakaako Family Assessment Center earlier...
View ArticleVeteran HPD Officer Arrested
Our media partner KITV has this report about the second arrest in five months of a veteran officer with the Honolulu Police Department. Maulia LaBarre was taken in by FBI officials: “He was charged...
View Article“The Harbor” Homeless Series Wins National Award
Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell and photographer Cory Lum took home a top national award Saturday night at the Online News Association’s annual awards banquet. “The Harbor: This Waianae Homeless...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: Important Tax Review Boards Are In Trouble
In Hawaii, we have a beast called a Taxation Board of Review that is quickly following the dodo bird down the path to extinction. This is why we should be concerned. None of us relish a tax audit,...
View ArticleWe All Need To Purge Our Inner Gary Johnson
By now you’ve probably seen the clip of Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson’s painful deer-in-the-headlights moment when he was asked what he would do about Aleppo if he was elected....
View ArticleCivil Beat’s Newest Intern Is Already Retired
If you run into Ron Hochuli and he tells you he’s a Civil Beat intern he really is. Some of you may remember that Ron ran for Honolulu mayor this year but lost in the primary. That’s when we first met...
View ArticleReader Rep: When Computers Replace Journalists, Watch Out
Journalists are starting to catch on that computers are coming for their jobs and the general public might not really care all that much about the fate of the Fourth Estate. The Pew Research Center has...
View ArticleInquiry, Intervention Needed Now In Fishing Exploitation
A human rights outrage that has quietly simmered below the public consciousness in recent years exploded on the national scene just days ago when the Associated Press disclosed near slavery conditions...
View ArticleHonolulu Parking Stalls Become Tiny Public Parks For A Day
Parking spots are notoriously hard to come by in some parks of Honolulu. But on Friday, an array of designers, artists and activists took over four of the city’s scarce public parking stalls and turned...
View ArticleThe Hawaii Symphony: A Public Crescendo Builds
The lights are dimmed, the audience hushed, the musicians of the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra at-the-ready. Executive Director Jonathan Parrish emerges on stage, soon joined by affable sidekick, Honolulu...
View ArticleChinatown Tries To Hang On To Tradition, Even As It Changes
Bo Sisounthone doesn’t live in Chinatown, but he considers his open-air butcher kiosk in Maunakea Marketplace home and his customers family. “We talk story and time flies by fast,” said Sisounthone,...
View ArticleFeds Want To Save Honeycreeper
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the iiwi, a red honeycreeper unique to Hawaii, as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the agency announced Monday. The bird used to be...
View ArticleWaianae Teacher Gap Requires Community-Based Solutions
Do you have keiki attending a public school on the Waianae Coast? Are you an uncle, auntie, tutu of a keiki attending public school on the Waianae Coast? Did you know that Hawaii’s public schools...
View ArticleInvestigation Of Hawaii State Auditor Needs To Be Made Public
There is little that undermines the public’s confidence in government more corrosively than a lack of transparency. Denying members of public or the media who serve them access to government records...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Food Babe Talk Generates Buzz, But No Food Fight
I went to hear Vani Hari, better known by her blog name as the Food Babe, speak at the University of Hawaii on Thursday night to find out more about her food activism. And there was another reason. A...
View ArticleFishing Industry Says It’s Working To Stop Abuse Of Foreign Crews
Hawaii longline industry leaders say they have formed a task force and hired an expert on slavery in response to media reports about human trafficking, forced labor and poor working conditions aboard...
View ArticleHonolulu May Have To Pay $16M For Misuse Of Housing Grants
The City and County of Honolulu may have to pay nearly $16 million to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for allegedly wasting federal grant money from 2012 to 2015. An audit by the...
View ArticleAmerican Samoa Animals Protected
The Pacific sheath-tailed bat, the mao forest bird, the friendly ground dove and two land snails are now listed as endangered species in American Samoa, marking the first time for animals in the U.S....
View ArticleCity Postpones Effort To Condemn Obstructed Kakaako Streets
A Honolulu City Council committee has deferred a resolution that would allow the city to acquire eight private Kakaako streets where traffic has been obstructed by parking slots that a company has...
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