Kinder, Gentler Sweeps Of Honolulu’s Homeless?
The rain was drizzling off and on throughout the early hours of Wednesday, but Stash and Carrie were staying snug and dry under the canopy in front of Queen Emma Mart, a mom-and-pop convenience store...
View Article$50K Sought For Defense In Police Case
The Honolulu City Council is considering hiring the Law Offices of Cary T. Tanaka to defend city Corporation Counsel Donna Leong in a lawsuit brought by the family of Sheldon Haleck, who died in police...
View ArticleIt’s Your Money: How A Pothole May Cost The City $1.2M
Honolulu City Council members are expected to approve a $1.2 million settlement this week for a 2008 motorcycle crash on Kaluanui Road in Hawaii Kai that left a man paralyzed. The Council is planning...
View ArticleCity Council Considers Killing Proposed Cap On Honolulu Rail Tax
The Honolulu City Council voted Wednesday to keep alive a bill to extend a 0.5 percent general excise tax surcharge by five years, from 2022 to 2027, to help pay for a growing deficit in the...
View ArticleState Gears Up To Sweep Homeless Encampments At Kakaako Parks
State officials took another step Wednesday toward clearing out homeless encampments at two Kakaako parks. At a special meeting, the Hawaii Community Development Authority board signed off on what its...
View ArticleHPD Beating Caught On Tape
A video showing a Honolulu police officer repeatedly striking a man with a baton before an arrest last year is once again under review by city prosecutors, who are considering taking the case to a...
View ArticleIn Kakaako Parks, State Wades Into Thorny Issue of Property Confiscation
It was meant be a swift response to an emerging problem. In late October, Gov. David Ige announced that the state would start enforcing nighttime closure rules at two Kakaako parks, a move aimed at...
View ArticleProtests Pay Off: Sisters Can Remain At Saint Francis Convent
The sisters can stay. Twenty-four aging nuns residing at the Saint Francis Convent in Manoa had recently been notified they would have to move to an assisted living facility in Pearl City. Many of the...
View ArticleCaldwell: Honolulu On Right Track In Tackling Homelessness
Mayor Kirk Caldwell says he’s proud of what the city has accomplished this year to help tackle the state’s homelessness crisis. In a year-end address to reporters Wednesday, Caldwell announced that the...
View ArticleCity Government Gets Burned In H-POWER Audit
A pervasive lack of oversight at Honolulu’s waste-to-energy facility in West Oahu has cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars — if not millions — in improper and questionable expenses,...
View ArticleRail Contracts Delayed Until Tax Passes
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation will hold off on putting out bids for the final leg of rail construction through the city center until a 0.5 percent surcharge on Oahu’s general excise...
View ArticleCaldwell (Finally) Speaks Out About Kealoha
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell appears to have changed his tune on Police Chief Louis Kealoha, who’s currently under a federal investigation for alleged abuse of power. The mayor appeared on Hawaii News...
View ArticleThe Projector: The Fish Auction Is A Morning Ritual At Pier 38
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View ArticleThe Obamas And Oahu, Together Again For The Holidays
The Obama family — Barack, Michelle, Sasha and Malia — stepped onto the tarmac of Air Force Base Hickam early Saturday to begin the seventh Hawaiian holiday vacation of the Obama presidency. Their...
View ArticleChristmas Brings Gifts, And Possibly Toilets, To Homeless Encampment
Bicycles. Clothing. Toys. Kalo plants. Supplies to build composting toilets. So many donations and gifts have been pouring into The Harbor this month that leaders of Hawaii’s largest and most unusual...
View ArticleWill Duke Aiona Run For Mayor Of Honolulu?
There’s speculation that Duke Aiona will run for mayor of Honolulu next year, and the Republican candidate for governor in the last two elections said Monday he would neither “confirm nor deny” the...
View ArticleWhat Could $1.5 Billion Buy You (Besides More Of The Rail Project)?
A five-year extension of the 0.5 percent general excise tax surcharge on Oahu is supposed to cover the growing shortfall for Honolulu’s $6.6 billion (and counting) rail project. Officials from the...
View ArticleHART Hires New Contract For Rail Stations
Construction firm Nan Inc. received some pleasant news this week when it learned it was the new lowest bidder on a lucrative contract to build three rail stations along Honolulu’s $6.6 billion commuter...
View ArticleHomeless Move A Few Feet To Avoid First The State, Then The City
It must have seemed like a major case of deja vu. In the early hours of Tuesday, when the city’s maintenance crew arrived in Kakaako, it found a familiar scene: dozens of homeless people pushing their...
View ArticleEspero: Still Pushing For More Citizen Oversight Of The Police
Dozens of people have died over the years after encounters with Hawaii police officers, yet few details ever emerge about whether the officers’ actions were justified. Hawaii Sen. Will Espero wants to...
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