City Still Misuses Hanauma Bay Funds, Advocacy Group Says
Honolulu officials have yet to fully address allegations — including misuse of funds —involving Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve despite assurances from bureaucrats and a federal court order, according to...
View ArticleGold Medal For Filipino Vets?
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously passed the Filipino Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act. The measure now heads to the White House for its likely approval....
View ArticleGabbard’s Advice For Trump
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has penned an op-ed piece in The Nation that expands a bit on what she had to tell Donald Trump during their recent meeting. Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii, had an “hour-long,...
View ArticleHawaii’s Probation Program Is Often Copied, But Does It Work?
A new study says a Hawaii criminal justice program praised nationally for improving parole and probation is not a “silver bullet” for reducing recidivism and lowering costs for supervising high-risk...
View ArticleThe Sex Lives Of Bees
Hawaii’s yellow-faced bees were recently added to the endangered species list by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It turns out that even though scientists are worried that they may go extinct but...
View ArticleGabbard: Stop Pipeline Now
Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard called on President Barack Obama to immediately halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in a speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on...
View ArticleAngela Kaaihue Removed From City Council Meeting After Disruptions
A police officer escorted former congressional candidate Angela Kaaihue out of a Honolulu City Council meeting Thursday after she loudly protested the renaming of an aquatic center in honor of the late...
View ArticleHanabusa Tabbed As Class Rep
With Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s blessings, this week U.S. House of Representative freshman legislators unanimously elected Rep. Colleen Hanabusa their class representative. Hanabusa, who previously...
View Article200 To Receive Rental Assistance
The Hawaii Public Housing Authority is in the process of handing out housing vouchers to 200 families statewide under the federal rental assistance program known as Section 8. The move comes nearly...
View ArticleCouncil Approves $150K To Pay Lawyers For Police Chief
The Honolulu City Council on Thursday approved four resolutions authorizing the payment of up to $150,000 to retain the services of three outside law firms to represent Honolulu Police Chief Louis...
View ArticleMicronesia Expert Blasts ‘Flawed’ U.S. Approach To Foreign Aid
Micronesians migrate to the United States and its territories — especially Hawaii and Guam — because education, employment and medical care are scarce back home. It’s also because they are allowed to...
View ArticleCity Gets Authority To Condemn Private Kakaako Streets
The city can now initiate action to claim eight private Kakaako streets that have generated complaints about traffic being blocked by parking spots a company has rented out. Honolulu City Council...
View ArticleAloha, Standing Rock: Islanders Brave Cold, Snow In Solidarity
CANNON BALL, N.D. — The greeting is familiar in the tropical heat of Hawaii, but here, in the bone-cracking chill of a deepening Dakota winter, it feels out of place. “Aloha!” Andre Perez yelled his...
View ArticleActivists Fear Thomas Square Could Become A ‘Revenue Cow’
Plans for upgrades and new management of Honolulu’s Thomas Square were panned in a letter sent to the city earlier this week by a group of community activists. “My nightmare is that it’s going to turn...
View ArticleProtesters Give Water To Sheriff Who Wants To Cut Their Supplies
MANDAN, N.D. — The propaganda war between Standing Rock demonstrators and the Morton County Sheriff’s Department was at full pitch Friday as about 20 Native Americans descended on police headquarters...
View Article$9.5 Billion For Honolulu Rail?
The costs of Honolulu’s rail project could go as high as $9.5 billion under one scenario in an updated financial plan for the project released by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation Friday....
View ArticleHula Dancer Who Served In Iraq Joins Vets Protesting Pipeline
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Tears pooled in the corners of Leomana Turalde’s eyes as he stared down an icy stretch of North Dakota highway at a military-grade armored truck parked behind concrete barricades....
View ArticleTom Yamachika: To Aid Homeless, Only A Coordinated Effort Will Do
One of the most visible crisis to hit us in recent years is the problem of the homeless. Certainly, the issue has been around for a very long time, but it seems to have intensified in recent years...
View ArticleGood News For Standing Rock: Feds Say No To Pipeline Route
CANNON BALL, N.D. — Federal regulators announced Sunday they will not grant an easement for a controversial oil pipeline to cross near Sioux Territory and go under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. That will...
View ArticleApply To Work At Honolulu City Hall
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell wants “energetic, self-motivated, high achievers with the desire to make a difference” to apply to work in his administration. Caldwell, a Democrat, was re-elected last...
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