Petition: Dump Akana, Keep CEO
Kaui Pratt-Aquino, who calls herself a beneficiary of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, wants to see major changes at OHA. On Thursday she posted an online petition...
View ArticleFBI Serves Search Warrant At Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office
The FBI executed a search warrant at the Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney on Friday morning as part of an ongoing corruption probe into the city police chief and his wife, who is a...
View ArticleWhen You Think About Civil Rights, Think About Health Care
This weekend we commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. His message of health care rings loudly in our ears. “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman,”...
View ArticleHonolulu Police Commission To City Council: Stay Out Of It
The Honolulu Police Commission doesn’t want to meet with the City Council regarding a retirement deal for Police Chief Louis Kealoha, who has agreed to leave his post under criminal suspicion but is...
View ArticleHawaii Most Integrated State
According to the results of a survey by the Pew Research Center, “Nearly half of U.S. voters (46 percent) expect Donald Trump’s election to lead to worse race relations… By contrast, after Barack...
View ArticleMore Judge Jobs For Ige Pal
Earlier this month we reported that Keith Hiraoka stepped down as chair of David Ige’s political campaign after learning his name is on a list of nominees for a vacancy on Hawaii’s Intermediate Court...
View ArticleGun-Death Rates In America
A year ago at this time we reported that Hawaii had the lowest gun-death rate in 2014, when looking at household gun-ownership rates. We are still pretty low but no longer the lowest. Statistics for...
View ArticleInaugurating Resistance: A Call to Action
The ascendance of Donald J. Trump to the presidency of the United States signals an ominous turn in our politics. People across the nation and around the globe watched in shocked dismay on Nov. 8 as...
View ArticlePod Squad: Defending Women’s Rights As Trump Takes Over
Why are women’s marches planned Saturday in the nation’s capital and hundreds of other venues around the world — including Honolulu — on the day after Donald Trump will be inaugurated as president of...
View ArticleReader Rep: Damage Done By Internet Trolls Can Still Be Repaired
Maybe the biggest story in 2016 wasn’t the bizarre presidential election. I wonder if historians instead will look back and determine this past year, and this president-elect, really were the...
View ArticleDo Condo Owners Need Some Help From Hawaii’s Legislature?
Condo owner John White Sr. wasn’t planning to get involved on the board of Pearl Ridge Gardens and Tower. But when maintenance fees jumped nearly 50 percent in late 2015, he wanted to know why. It was...
View ArticleHPD Chief’s Secret Payoff: It’s The Principle That Should Count
The Honolulu Police Commission is considering paying Chief Louis Kealoha a lot of money to just go away. That would be an egregious breach of the trust the public has put in the commission to make sure...
View ArticleDenby Fawcett: Waimanalo Seeks Relief From Tour Bus Invasions
I feel sad whenever I hear about local residents being squeezed out of their community beach parks by tour buses rumbling in day after day to drop off hundreds of tourists on so-called “recreation...
View ArticleFiji Is Showing Off Its Sharks — Should Hawaii Do The Same?
PACIFIC HARBOUR, Fiji — As the divers’ air bubbles sashayed to the surface 100 feet above, their eyes focused on the scene emerging in front of them. A 10-foot female bull shark appeared, almost...
View ArticleCounties Again Seek Greater Share Of Hotel Tax, Lifeguard Immunity
To Mel Rapozo, chairman of the Kauai County Council, it’s a no-brainer: lifeguards should be protected from being sued. But if the Legislature does not act this session, lifeguards will have no...
View ArticleReport: Native Hawaiians Face A ‘Public Health Crisis’
Hawaii typically ranks among the top states when it comes to the health of its residents, but its indigenous population suffers disproportionately from diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and...
View ArticleLegislators Question Removal Of School Superintendent
Two groups of lawmakers wanted answers Tuesday as to why current Department of Education Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi is being replaced when the Board of Education has said she’s done a good job....
View ArticleAlternate Realities: The State Of Solar Power In Hawaii
A deep discussion over the existence of parallel universes and alternate realities is probably better left to those with highfalutin titles and impressive sounding abbreviations after their names. That...
View ArticleSenator Wants More Transparency For Charter School Funds
The accounting practices of the State Public Charter School Commission came under scrutiny during a legislative budget hearing at the Capitol. The commission, which collects and distributes funds to...
View ArticleSenator: ‘Silent’ Police Commission Should Stay Quiet A Bit Longer
Hawaii Sen. Will Espero has added his name to the chorus of people urging the Honolulu Police Commission to hold off on inking a cash settlement with Police Chief Louis Kealoha, who is under federal...
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