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Hawaii Must Prepare As Trump And Kim Continue Their Dangerous Game
It is both bizarre and ludicrous that the fate of the world may hinge on name-calling and deranged rhetoric between the “Rocket Man” and the “Dotard.” And yet that is precisely the position we find...
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Doing Away With The Jones Act May Help Puerto Rico — And Hawaii
The humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico wrought by Hurricane Maria has renewed attention on a 97-year-old law enacted by the U.S. Congress, in part to defend American against German U-boats. The U.S....
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Congress Must ‘Get Off Its Ass’ And Move To Stop Gun Violence
If the worst incident of gun violence in modern U.S. history is not an urgent signal that it’s way past time to talk about reasonable gun control measures, what is? And yet White House spokeswoman...
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Honolulu Police Commission Chairman Should Just Resign
At the urging of the Honolulu Ethics Commission and Mayor Kirk Caldwell, the chairman of the Honolulu Police Commission announced Tuesday that he has recused himself from the vetting and selection of a...
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Safe Zones For The Homeless Are Worth A Try
In the spring of 2006, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann ordered police to clear about 200 homeless people from Ala Moana Park. Many of the them marched in unison to Honolulu Hale, where they were...
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Hawaii Judge Is Right To Keep Fighting Oppressive Travel Bans
Derrick Kahala Watson has done it again. On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court judge granted Hawaii’s request to temporarily halt the Trump administration’s third version of a travel ban policy, just...
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Let’s Scrap The Police Chief Search And Start Over
If there were any lingering assumptions that the federal investigation of a former Honolulu police chief and his deputy prosecutor wife is only about a stolen mailbox, the dramatic events of Friday...
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Here’s Our Advice For Our New Police Chief
Honolulu’s new police chief has been described as just the right person to heal a department reeling from allegations of deep corruption, abuse of power and general mismanagement. And while Maj. Susan...
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Rail Project Gets Some Much-Needed Money Management Help From State
When the Hawaii Legislature passed a rail-funding bill in special session last month, much of the public attention was focused on which taxes would be raised, for how long and how much money it would...
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There Should Be No Secret Deal With Airbnb
Short-term rental operators like Airbnb should operate within the law, pay their taxes and be subject to local land-use regulations meant to protect housing for locals. Gov. David Ige is now trying to...
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Let’s Get Real About Fixing The Hawaii State Hospital
The spectacular break from confinement from the Hawaii State Hospital was like a made-for-TV movie. Randall Saito’s quick capture in California is a relief, but we need to take steps right now to...
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Don’t Give Up On Honolulu’s Recycling Effort
Honolulu has an opala problem. A city audit in October revealed that the cost of paper, plastic, glass, cardboard and aluminum recycling has more than tripled over the past eight years. It would...
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The Trouble With Cats
In the spirit of the season, the Hawaiian Humane Society is offering a special “matching gift challenge.” Any donation to the independent nonprofit will be doubled from now to Dec. 31. But there is...
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It’s Not Too Late To Build Rail Better
Honolulu’s prophets of doom for the rail project — Randall Roth, Cliff Slater and Panos Prevedouros — believe they were right all along that the city’s ambitious mass-transit plan is a mess. Rail is...
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No Justice For Abused Toddler
Nearly three years after a 17-month-old boy was apparently physically abused in an Ewa Beach day care facility, his parents are no closer to seeing someone held responsible for the crime. And that’s a...
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Constitutional Convention: It May Be Time To Go Over Legislators’ Heads
Those of us old enough to have taken a civics class know that in government the legislative branch makes laws, the executive branch implements and enforces them and the judicial branch interprets them....
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Hawaii Legislators Must Fix The Broken Workers’ Comp System
Civil Beat’s special project on Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system, Waiting In Pain, revealed that a process to help people who are hurt on the job is actually weighted in favor of insurance...
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Honolulu Must Help Businesses Hurt By Rail Construction
What began as an effort to help businesses negatively impacted by rail ended up being merely a hollow gesture from the Honolulu City Council. And that serves as a cautionary tale as the costly project...
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Hawaii’s Failure To Keep Bad Cops Off The Job Is Criminal
Within a day of news reports this week that the state is being sued by a young woman who says she was assaulted by a law enforcement officer as a teen, a state senator says he will reintroduce...
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Time For Defiance Of Jeff Sessions’ Renewed War On Pot
On Friday, the House of Representatives in Vermont voted to legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, and to let people grow up to six plants at home. The Vermont Senate is expected to follow...
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