Gun Bills Advance In Hawaii Senate
A state Senate committee on Thursday gave police more power to seize guns from potentially dangerous people. But lawmakers also softened the consequences for people who fail to register their guns as...
View ArticleHumpty Dumpty Is Sitting On Trump’s Wall
It has been claimed that the Great Wall of China can be seen by the naked eye from the moon. That claim was made by an Englishman in 1754. It has remained urban legend even up to today when the 12...
View ArticleYouth Election Offers Perspectives For 2017 Legislature
With the 2017 session of the Hawaii State Legislature underway, our elected officials would do well to consider the perspectives of Hawaii’s future voting generations if they intend to solve...
View ArticleHawaii Sues Trump To Block New Immigration Policy
Hawaii has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to block the president’s executive order that suspends refugee resettlements and temporarily bars citizens of seven...
View ArticleHPD Chief Got His $250K Payout But No One Will Say Who Gave It To Him
Who exactly paid for Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha’s $250,000 severance package? That might sound like a simple question — maybe even a silly one — but city officials are refusing to provide any...
View ArticleSchool Funding Bills Move Forward In Senate
A Senate committee on Friday approved measures that would use taxes to help fund public education in Hawaii – but a House committee postponed making a decision on its version of the bills. The bills...
View ArticleCivil Beat Welcomes You Into The Newsroom With ‘Office Hours’
Civil Beat wants you to come inside our newsroom — virtually, at least — via a new weekly Facebook Live stream with our engagement editor, Anthony Quintano and audience development editor, Landess...
View ArticleIntroducing The ‘Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act’
The late Mark Takai championed legislation during his brief time in the U.S. Congress that called for allowing Americans who helped clean up contaminated Enewetak Atoll to be eligible for medical care....
View ArticleThe Fight For Better Pay For Teachers
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Education and an intelligent, critically thinking populous are essential to any form of democracy or...
View ArticleHow Islam Is Gaining A Foothold In Micronesia
MAJURO, Marshall Islands — Tucked onto a quiet side street in central Majuro, the white two-story building with baby blue trim hardly stands out other than two skinny rocket-shaped minarets rising...
View ArticleHunters And Fishermen Score A Quick Kill Of Public Lands Bill
WASHINGTON — The first attack on public lands under the Trump administration came fast, and it died fast, too. Responding to ferocious public pressure generated by two upstart public-lands advocacy...
View ArticleReader Rep: Super Gabby Can Redeem Herself By Being Honest
So now you know where Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard was instead of attending the presidential inauguration (on a secret “fact-finding” mission to Syria), but you really still don’t know why....
View ArticleShould Hawaii Become A Sanctuary State?
In his tumultuous first days in office, President Donald Trump has signed a slew of executive orders on immigration, fulfilling some of his most extreme campaign promises that were the centerpiece of...
View ArticleIt’s Time For Lawmakers To Help Those Who Help Our Kupuna
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of Community Voices by University of Hawaii adjunct professor Dawn Webster and several of her students about taking care of aging family members, the...
View ArticleHouse Committee Amends, Passes School Funding Bills
After postponing making a decision last Friday, a House committee amended and passed two measures that would use taxes to provide more funding for public schools in Hawaii. The measures are part of the...
View ArticleWill This Be The Year For A Styrofoam Ban?
The quintessential Hawaii plate lunch comes with meat atop two scoops of rice next to mac salad, with sauce overflowing from the cracks of a styrofoam takeout clam. This year lawmakers hope a bill will...
View ArticleSettlement Protects Religious Rights For Hawaiian Prisoners
The federal court has approved a final settlement in a landmark lawsuit over the religious rights of Native Hawaiian prisoners at the Saguaro Correctional Center, an Arizona prison where about 1,700...
View ArticleRail Tax Measures Face Big Votes This Week
Mayor Kirk Caldwell wore one of his sharpest Sig Zane shirts to the Hawaii Legislature Monday and brought along a couple of City Council members to help him make his best pitch for more money for rail....
View ArticleTrump Seeks To Put Hawaii Case On Hold
The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion in U.S. District Court in Honolulu, requesting to suspend all deadlines relating to Hawaii’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s travel ban....
View ArticleSanctuary State: Hawaii Must Stand Up For Its Values
It’s not everyday that Hawaii makes national news. Apart from the Obamas’ yearly visits, our little islands tend to be in the blindspot of most of America. But not on Friday. On Friday, the state of...
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