Hawaiian Electric Revives Three Oahu Solar Projects
Hawaiian Electric announced Tuesday it has revived three major solar projects on Oahu that it terminated last year not long before the company that was supposed to build them filed for bankruptcy. In...
View ArticleBill Banning Many Sunscreen Products Advances In House
A proposed ban on sunscreen products containing oxybenzone, which includes most of the sun protection items currently on store shelves, was approved by the House Energy and Environmental Protection...
View ArticleHouse Lawmakers Debate Bills To Make It Easier To Evict People
Linda Starr is frustrated. She has been a landlord for 15 years, and is having trouble evicting a tenant. She wants lawmakers to pass a bill that would get rid of the five business days that tenants...
View ArticleFact Or Fiction: Life In The Age Of Fake News
In the aftermath of a bitter election, and after the inauguration of a new president, a challenge confronts the media: How can this institution, from print and electronic journalism to radio and TV...
View ArticleGabbard Crossed The Line With Secret Trip To Syria
Fortune favors the bold, but not the reckless. And that’s what Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s mysterious trip to Syria and spur-of-the-moment meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad was. Reckless. As Hawaii...
View ArticleIan Lind: Public Interest Measures Surface At Legislature
Every year, about this time, I start start to wonder whether there are surprises buried in the mountain of bills introduced in the current legislative session that will impact public interest issues...
View ArticleHawaii GOP Lawmaker May Switch Parties
The top Republican officeholder in Hawaii may jump parties. State Rep. Beth Fukumoto sent a letter to constituents Wednesday stating, “This week, Republicans in the state Legislature and in party...
View ArticlePetition Calls for Gabbard’s Removal From Key US House Posts
An online petition to U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi is calling on the House minority leader to remove a Hawaii congresswoman from two committees in the House of Representatives. The petition, posted on...
View ArticleHPD: We Don’t Have $250,000 To Give The Chief
The Honolulu Police Department doesn’t have enough money to pay outgoing Chief Louis Kealoha the $250,000 he and his attorney negotiated as part of a lucrative severance package that has raised...
View ArticleInside Agriculture: The Rising Importance of NGOs
This week, President Trump mandated a social media blackout and research halt for the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Agriculture. While this is bad news for agriculture, the sun...
View ArticleEnvironmental Council Wants Hawaii To Redefine Success
The state Environmental Council wants the public — and elected officials — to start thinking differently about how the state measures success. Instead of looking at economic indicators like the gross...
View Article5 Reasons To Oppose Physician-Assisted Suicide
I read your proposal that the Legislature push physician-assisted suicide and would like to share five reasons that I, as a long-time Honolulu physician, believe doing so would ultimately bring regret...
View ArticleHealth Beat: Trump’s Medicaid Block Grants Might Just Block Care
The current Medicaid program is a jointly funded federal and state cooperative agreement to care for the most vulnerable in our country – children born into poverty, those who are blind or disabled,...
View ArticleNew Report Shows Serious Misconduct Persists At HPD
About a dozen Honolulu police officers were disciplined last year — including two who were discharged — for their handling of an investigation into a fellow officer who accidentally shot a woman in the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Considers A Third Trial For Christopher Deedy
The question of whether Honolulu can pursue a third trial against Christopher Deedy, a federal agent from the mainland who fatally shot local resident Kollin Elderts in 2011, is now in the hands of the...
View ArticleOHA Infighting Continues As Chairwoman Rowena Akana Is Ousted
Turmoil continued Thursday during meetings at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which coincidentally were held on Groundhog Day. Like the Bill Murray movie of the same name, OHA and its Native Hawaiian...
View ArticleUH Report: State’s Cut Of Honolulu Rail Tax ‘Exorbitant’
The state of Hawaii is taking more money than justified out of a general excise tax surcharge for Honolulu’s troubled rail project, according to a University of Hawaii report released Thursday. Since...
View ArticleNew Oahu Jail Will Cost Hundreds Of Millions
The price tag for building a new jail to replace the crumbling Oahu Community Correctional Center could reach anywhere from $433 million to $673 million, according to a team of consultants hired by the...
View ArticleSenator: Police Union Wrong On Domestic Violence Bill
Improving the way domestic violence cases are handled is an issue lawmakers seem intent on moving through this year’s legislative session. On Thursday, the Senate public safety committee approved...
View ArticleJudge: Blacked-Out Health Department Reports Are Worthless
“Unreasonable and unjustified.” That’s how Circuit Court Judge Karen Nakasone described the manner in which the state Health Department blacked out large portions of inspection reports for a Honolulu...
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