Advocates Applaud Fed Ruling That Elderly Can Sue Care Homes
Advocates for Hawaii’s elderly celebrated a federal agency’s decision this week to bar the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements by nursing homes and other long-term care facilities. Hawaii...
View Article$350K To Fight Housing Discrimination
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is giving $350,000 to the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii to investigate and fight housing discrimination. The grant is part of $38 million that HUD is...
View ArticleVIDEO: AARP Tele-Town Hall with Kirk Caldwell and Charles Djou
Mayoral candidates take questions during a live tele-town hall event hosted by AARP Hawaii. The candidates took specific questions around top community issues for Honolulu, including: Mass Transit...
View ArticleHonolulu Mayoral Candidates Vie For Coveted Kupuna Vote
The concerned call came from a woman in Kailua. She had heard that Honolulu property taxes could be increased to pay for the over-budget rail project. In the caller’s view, such a development would...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: How Will Hawaii Raise Taxes For Transportation?
The Hawaii Department of Transportation was recently in the news because it won a $4 million federal grant to come up with a “reimagining” of the taxes we currently pay to support our highways and...
View ArticleHonolulu Rents Decline Slightly
It’s sorta good news: One-bedroom apartments in Honolulu no longer are among the 10 most expensive in the nation. According to apartment-finder website Zumper’s October report, such a unit lists for...
View ArticleWhat Do We Do Now About The Honolulu Rail Project?
With its official cost now having risen to $8.6 billion and a funding gap of $1.8 billion, both of which are certain to rise, Honolulu’s rail project will run out of money before construction reaches...
View ArticleReader Rep: Was Civil Beat Right To Publish The Billy Kenoi Party Video?
Editors have a complex and thankless job. They determine what gets shared with the public, and what doesn’t, including what aligns with professional practices and when ethical or legal standards are...
View ArticleCan Homeless Families Really Find Housing Within 90 Days?
Over the next two years, Kakaako’s newest homeless center will try to place hundreds of people into permanent housing within 90 days. That work began last week when the Kakaako Family Assessment Center...
View ArticleKalihi: ‘The Last Working Class Neighborhood In Central Honolulu’
In Hawaiian, Kalihi means “the edge.” And in many ways the sprawling community next to downtown Honolulu teeters on the edge. Some of the people who own and rent homes in Kalihi work two or three jobs...
View ArticleCaldwell Aide Works Campaign For Free But Gets City Contracts
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s campaign spokeswoman has been awarded tens of thousands of dollars worth of city contracts, but apparently doesn’t get paid for her campaign work. Glenna Wong has been...
View ArticleMore On Killer Cats
My colleague Nathan Eagle recently wrote about the threat of toxoplasmosis from cat feces to endangered seals in the islands. A Civil Beat editorial then raised the uncomfortable notion that feral cat...
View ArticleKeiki Have High Tooth Decay
A new report from the state Department of Health is not much to smile about, the agency admits. The survey confirmed that kids in the state have the highest prevalence of tooth decay in the nation....
View ArticleShark Bites Rise In October
For centuries, says the DLNR’s Division of Aquatic Resources, traditional Hawaiian chants have warned about an increased risk of shark bites in the fall, “when the wiliwili tree blooms.” University of...
View ArticleHonolulu Tries To Buy Even More Time To Come Up With Rail Plan
The over-budget Honolulu rail project has submitted an interim plan to the federal government for how it wants to cover a $1.8 billion shortfall or reduce the project’s scope to stay within the current...
View ArticleThe Unflattering Cultural Poaching Of ‘Moana’ Is A Threat
It’s a twofer. With a Thanksgiving holiday release of “Moana,” Disney’s Polynesian cartoon extravaganza can simultaneously expand its lucrative enterprise of exploiting marginalized, indigenous peoples...
View ArticleThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Even Worse Than We Feared
The first aerial survey of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch shows that the amount of debris swirling in the North Pacific has been “heavily underestimated,” the expedition group said. On Monday, The...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Move Over, Mr. Coffee, The Third Wave Has Arrived
National Coffee Day last week got me thinking about coffee and how far the black brew has come from the days of my youth, when my parents finally allowed me to join them in their morning ritual of...
View ArticleKirstin Downey: Why Didn’t Tulsi Talk To These Victim Advocates?
In the past nine months, at least six men in Hawaii have allegedly killed their wives in a string of incidents that highlight the mortal peril faced by battered women. U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has...
View ArticleHawaii’s Roadblocks to Life-Saving Addiction Drugs
The Hawaii agency that polices controlled substances put a scare into the drug treatment community recently when its director said that he planned to start enforcing a state law his agency believed...
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