Combatting Cultures Of Youth Violence
In a Feb. 14, 2017 Civil Beat article titled “Why Aren’t We Changing Waianae’s Culture of Fistfights?” journalist Noelle Fuji provides an in-depth look at the youth fighting that regularly occurs in a...
View ArticleEx-Cop Hired By Hawaii DLNR Found Guilty Of Rape
A state conservation officer, who once worked for the Honolulu Police Department, was found guilty Wednesday of raping a 16-year-old girl at a beach park on the Big Island in 2016. The Hawaii...
View ArticleMore Sit-Lie Bans Advance In Honolulu City Council
Homeless people in Iwilei and Kalihi may need to pack up their tents if the Honolulu City Council passes two new bills aimed at expanding the city’s sit-lie ban. The bill expands a long list of city...
View ArticleNeal Milner: Don’t Kill The Messenger, Even If It’s Sean Spicer
We now go live to the daily White House media briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer: “Good morning. Before I take questions, I would like to open with the following brief statement: ‘President...
View ArticleDebate Hawaii: Honolulu Rail Is A Good Investment
Editor’s Note: On Friday, Debate Hawaii will host a Capitol Debate forum asking debate teams to argue whether there should be a further increase in the general excise tax to fund rail. Katelynn...
View ArticleTo Be A Honolulu Police Commissioner, First Be A Political Insider
In 2006, Jimmy Borges quit the Honolulu Police Commission in the middle of his five-year term because he was worried Mayor Mufi Hannemann was appointing people who weren’t qualified to do the job. The...
View ArticleBill Would Require Recounts In Close Hawaii Elections
Dale Kobayashi is still smarting. Six months after narrowly losing a state legislative race to Rep. Isaac Choy, the longtime Manoa resident wishes Hawaii had a recount law on the books. Kobayashi lost...
View ArticleDebate Hawaii: No More Money For Honolulu Rail
Editor’s Note: On Friday, Debate Hawaii will host a Capitol Debate forum asking debate teams to argue whether there should be a further increase in the general excise tax to fund rail. Sterling Higa...
View ArticleThe Projector: HPD’s New Recruits
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View ArticleHawaii Must Protect Residents From Pesticide Drift
Editor’s Note: This Community Voice was co-authored by 10 council members from Maui, Kauai and Hawaii Island. All the authors are listed at the end. As individual county council members from across the...
View ArticleAnti-Trump Movement Urges Hawaii Politicians To Take A Stand
It began just five weeks ago with a handful of concerned Hawaii residents showing up unannounced at the Honolulu offices of the state’s congressional delegation. Since then, it has become a regular...
View ArticleNo New Housing For Hawaiians Despite Millions In The Bank
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands didn’t produce any new housing units for Native Hawaiians last fiscal year, even though it has $38 million in unspent federal funds. And that’s unlikely to...
View ArticleTad Bartimus: A Piece of Maui History Gets A Million-Dollar Makeover
KAUPO, Maui — Nearly a million people annually visit the Haleakala National Park Kipahulu District to swim in the pools at Oheo and hike the bamboo forest on “the back side” of Maui. Most visitors...
View ArticleBill Clamps Down On State’s Habit Of Segregating Inmates
Hawaii lawmakers advanced a bill Friday that would significantly dial back the use of prolonged segregated confinement at the state’s eight prisons and jails. Under Senate Bill 603, the use of...
View ArticleTom Yamachika: Bills Push For ‘Obamacare Heavy’ In Hawaii
One of the ideas now working its way through our legislative system addresses the fate of Obamacare in Hawaii. Many people are concerned that our federal government will be changing the federal...
View ArticlePod Squad: Talking With Pulitzer Prize Winner Sacha Pfeiffer
At a time when President Donald Trump is referring to the news media as “enemies of the American people,” Boston Globe reporter Sacha Pfeiffer visits with the Civil Beat staff and joins Pod Squad host...
View ArticleReader Rep: Odd Reporting Of An Odd Death At The Airport
Journalists are trained to provide “balance” in every story by dutifully presenting opposing viewpoints. This is a solid philosophy in principle, but sometimes such an effort to reach for “fairness”...
View ArticleMarijuana Decriminalization Is Rooted In Social Justice
With House Bill 107 on the deck, our state Legislature is an excellent position to make 2017 the year that Hawaii joins 22 other states and the District of Columbia decriminalizing the possession of...
View ArticleHow Waianae Coast Schools Are Growing Their Own Teachers
On a Tuesday morning, about 10 high school students sit in a circle at the front of a classroom, learning how to one day lead their own classes. Kat Muranaka, a teacher at Waianae High School, is...
View ArticleHawaii’s Governor Steps Gingerly Into GOP Power Circle
WASHINGTON — Gov. David Ige, a Democrat in a state dominated by Democrats, is in Republican-controlled Washington for the National Governors Association winter meeting. He came to the nation’s capital...
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