Leadership Decisions Leave Shafter Students ‘Toughing It Out’
At a recent meeting with the parents of Shafter Elementary School, the principal said that when the Moanalua Complex approached her recently about changing the school boundary lines to address...
View Article3 Civil Questions For Kirk Caldwell And Charles Djou — Episode 4
This is part of a video series that presents the positions of Honolulu mayoral candidates on a broad range of issues. Charles Djou took the time to answer the questions, Kirk Caldwell did not. His...
View ArticleHealth Beat: Drug Ads Reveal Side Effects, So Why Don’t Doctors?
Have you heard the latest pharmaceutical commercials for the newest sleeping pills? Or erectile dysfunction drugs? Or antidepressants? Once the happy people ride off into the sunset with their newfound...
View ArticleA Rare Gift: HPD Chief Donates $500 To Prosecutor’s Campaign
One name more than any other sticks out on Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro’s campaign finance reports. Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha. And it’s not just because Kealoha is the...
View ArticleThe Street: Scenes From The Scary Season In Waikiki
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View ArticleClimate Change Is A ‘Matter Of Life And Death’ For The Marshall Islands
It takes a combination of guts, grit and gray matter to face off against what is arguably the world’s biggest threat — a planet in the throes of environmental and climate upheaval. That’s exactly what...
View ArticleClinton And Trump Supporters Make Some Noise In Hawaii
On a Saturday morning in Waikiki last month, tourists strolling along Kalakaua Avenue were startled by a convoy of about 15 vehicles. Drivers honked their horns and passengers, some riding in the beds...
View ArticleDozens Of Military Families Are Suing Over Pesticide Concerns
It’s been more than a year since the Hawaii Department of Health urged developer Forest City Residential Management to test the soil near homes on Marine Corps Base Hawaii on windward Oahu for possible...
View ArticleJoin Civil Beat To Watch Tuesday’s Election Results
Civil Beat is expanding its Election Day coverage this year with plans for streaming video, interviews and live illustrations. We’ll have reporters and photographers in the field around Oahu throughout...
View ArticleChang Raises, Spends 3 Times More Than Slom In Senate Race
Democrat Stanley Chang, a former Honolulu City Councilman, has raised and spent more than three times as much as state Sen. Sam Slom, the chamber’s only Republican member, in his bid to represent...
View ArticleMayoral Campaign Weekend Update
Kirk Caldwell’s campaign on Sunday sent out an email blast titled “Charles Djou’s Seven Biggest Whoppers.” The Honolulu mayor seeking re-election identifies as Whopper No. 1 the following: “Charles...
View ArticleComplicated Dynamics Of A Liberated Mosul Require US Help
The much anticipated operation to liberate Mosul has been underway for two weeks already. The Iraqi army, Kurdish Peshmerga, Sunni and Shia militias are all involved and supported by a United...
View ArticleTodd Simmons: NextEra’s Solar Shenanigans In The Sunshine State
Any Hawaii ratepayers wondering whether the Public Utilities Commission made the right decision earlier this year in rejecting NextEra Energy’s bid to purchase Hawaiian Electric Industries might have...
View ArticleCity Wants To Clean Up Bike Path By Designating It A Park
Until a couple of months ago, the almost half-mile paved bike path behind Kapahulu Avenue was a haven for homeless people. Some were well-behaved, community members said, but others would litter, take...
View ArticleReader Rep: Hawaii Should Reinstate Shield Law Immediately
Two local journalists recently were called to testify in the Billy Kenoi case, doing both of them (and Hawaii journalism) professional harm. Another local reporter, Mileka Lincoln of Hawaii News Now,...
View ArticleClinton, Trump Donors Include Some Familiar Hawaii Names
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton are the least popular set of presidential finalists in recent memory. But both have benefited from Hawaii financial donors — especially Clinton,...
View ArticleHawaii’s Voter Registration Is Way Up — Does It Matter?
More Hawaii residents have registered to vote this year than ever before. The ease of online registration, offered for the first time in Hawaii this election cycle, might explain the increase in the...
View ArticleArmy Sued Over Access to Makua
A Hawaiian cultural group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army for allegedly denying access to cultural sites in the Makua Military Reservation on Oahu. Plaintiff Malama Makua is being represented...
View ArticleTotal Multimodal: Rebooting Your Commuting
I wouldn’t commute daily by car on Oahu if you paid me $5,000 a year! Here’s how it pencils out: owning, insuring, gassing, parking and repairing a car costs $4,000-$10,000 per year. My annual bus pass...
View ArticleHow Overfishing, Shark-Finning May Worsen Climate Change
Our oceans are under serious threat. For years, many commercially important fish have been unsustainably caught, and today many of the world’s commercial fisheries are on the verge of collapse. In...
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