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Living Hawaii: Can We Un-corner Markets in Our Over-Priced State?
“Monopoly” isn’t a board game in the islands; it is an ubiquitous part of life. While it may seem normal to lifelong residents of Hawaii, there aren’t many parts of the United States where you can see...
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Mayor’s Search for Company to Install LED Streetlights Scrutinized
City Council Chair Ernie Martin urged Mayor Kirk Caldwell on Wednesday to re-evaluate his current effort to find a private company to replace Honolulu’s streetlights with LED lights. “I would ask the...
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Council Panel Agrees to Nearly $1M Subsidy for Mainland Company
The Honolulu City Council Budget Committee gave tentative approval Wednesday to a subsidy for recycling companies that would cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million annually, with nearly $1 million going...
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Key Rail Contractor Tangled Up in Fraud Allegations in Hawaii Courts
A business deal brokered more than 10 years ago during a clandestine meeting at an Italian restaurant in Hawaii Kai has set the stage for a bitter legal dispute that today embroils a Honolulu rail...
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Faster Permitting Urged for State Public Housing Work
Honolulu’s Department of Planning and Permitting should speed up permitting for state public housing projects, members of the City Council Zoning and Planning Committee said Thursday. The panel passed...
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City Council Fills New, $84K Housing Position With Political Operative
Peter Boylan is best known in Hawaii as a political operative, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to the late U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye and campaign spokesman for former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa’s...
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OHA Spent $4,785 on a Massive March With an Anti-TMT Flavor
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs spent almost $5,000 to support a massive public demonstration in Waikiki earlier this month, one focused on land use in the islands in general but opposition to the...
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Massive Honolulu Sewer Spill Shuts Down Waikiki Beach
Heavy rains from Tropical Depression Kilo contributed to a massive sewage spill near the intersection of Ala Moana Boulevard and Atkinson Drive on Monday. The spill shut down Waikiki Beach from Kuhio...
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Honolulu Beaches Remain Closed Pending Water Test Results
Honolulu beaches from the Kapahulu Groin to Point Panic remained off-limits Tuesday and will stay closed pending the results from water testing, city officials said. Lori Kahikina, the director of the...
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City Reopens Waikiki and Ala Moana Beaches After Sewage Spill
Honolulu officials reopened Waikiki Beach and Ala Moana Beach Park on Wednesday, two days after heavy rain triggered a sewage spill and brown water conditions. Keith Kawaoka, deputy director at the...
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HART Pushes Back When Company Seeks to Withdraw Low Construction Bid
Officials building Honolulu’s $6 billion commuter rail line thought they got a good deal when a local contractor submitted a construction bid for three stations in west Oahu that came in lower than...
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Caldwell: Honolulu to Resume ‘Phased Enforcement’ at Kakaako Encampment
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell announced Thursday that the city will resume the enforcement of the storage property and sidewalk nuisance ordinances in the Kakaako homeless encampment after Labor Day....
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Living Hawaii: Honolulu Is the Nation’s Most Expensive City for Singles
Single people across the U.S. mainland who plan on moving to Honolulu be warned: The Hawaii capital is the most expensive city in America for singles. That is the conclusion of the Economic Policy...
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Ala Wai Canal Flood Control: The High Cost of Protecting Waikiki
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing a $173 million project to minimize damage to Waikiki and surrounding neighborhoods if a “100-year flood” causes the Ala Wai Canal to overflow. Such a flood...
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When Cops Become Criminals: Arrests of HPD Officers Point to a ‘Culture of...
Former Honolulu Police Chief Boisse Correa witnessed first-hand how corruption can permeate the ranks of the Honolulu Police Department. Correa was chief in 2006 when five of his officers were caught...
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City Council Loosens Ohana Unit Rules to Boost Rental Housing Stock
The Honolulu City Council approved a bill Wednesday that allows certain homeowners to build and rent an extra unit on their property, an effort to boost the city’s supply of rental housing. The measure...
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How Do You House the Homeless When No One Wants Them Nearby?
Last week, as Gov. David Ige’s leadership team continued to mull over how to address Hawaii’s homelessness crisis, a new idea emerged: to use portable, modular buildings — originally designed as...
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State, County Lawmakers Want to Explore Public Utility Option for Hawaii
More than 40 state and county lawmakers united Thursday in a commitment to explore the potential of public utilities in Hawaii. Their announcement comes as the Public Utilities Commission considers...
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Honolulu Councilman Accuses Mayor’s Spokesman of ‘Hostile’ Behavior
A Honolulu City Council member has sent a letter to Mayor Kirk Caldwell complaining that the mayor’s chief spokesman disrupted a TV news interview last week to challenge comments he’d made about the...
View ArticleDid Political Donations Influence Honolulu City Council’s Hoopili Vote?
Opponents of a controversial 11,750-home community planned in West Oahu want the Honolulu Ethics Commission to invalidate City Council votes approving the project, arguing that hundreds of thousands of...
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