Bernie Sanders Endorses Jacquie Esser For Honolulu Prosecutor
Former U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders endorsed Hawaii public defender Jacquie Esser for Honolulu prosecutor on Twitter Thursday. In a series of tweets endorsing candidates running for local...
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HART Has Spent Millions On Rail Design Work That May Not Be Used
In 2012, Honolulu rail officials awarded a nearly $44 million contract to the global firm AECOM. Its scope was to design the last stretch of guideway into town and the utility relocations needed to...
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With Tourists Gone, City Will Open Kalakaua to Bikers and Pedestrians
It took a couple of months, but Honolulu has finally joined the ranks of cities providing at least a little more street space to pedestrians and bike riders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over four...
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How A Major Campaign Donor Got A Million-Dollar Cleaning Contract In Honolulu
The City and County of Honolulu in March gave a $1.4 million contract to a local industrial cleaning company to clean Oahu’s buses every night so the fleet could operate through the coronavirus...
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Honolulu To Repair Structures Atop Koko Head But Not Tramway
The tramway leading up to the Koko Head summit will be closed from June 15 through the end of July as workers repair “deficient structures” at the top that pose a public safety risk, the city said in a...
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Caldwell Names Two New Honolulu Police Commissioners
Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell wants to fill two of the three vacancies on the Honolulu Police Commission with former Family Court Judge Michael Broderick and former Lt. Gov. Doug Chin, he announced on...
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Honolulu Police To Temporarily Halt Use Of Vascular Neck Restraints
In response to global outrage at the death of George Floyd who died as a police officer kneeled on his neck for over 8 minutes, the Honolulu Police Department will temporarily stop using vascular neck...
View ArticleHonolulu Gets $22.3 Million To Address Housing Impacts Of COVID-19
The federal government has awarded Honolulu more than $22.3 million to address the housing needs of low-income and homeless individuals, Rep. Ed Case announced on Tuesday. It’s part of an over $31...
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Survey Counts Over 4,400 Homeless People On Oahu Before COVID-19
Volunteers counted 4,448 homeless people on Oahu’s streets and in shelters during a survey earlier this year, a number that holds steady with the totals of the last two years. Those counted include...
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Rail Investigation Is Latest Casualty Of COVID-19
A sweeping criminal investigation into Honolulu rail continues to advance out of sight, city officials say — but the city’s own, separate query into whether any crimes occurred on the project will not...
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City Takes Steps To Fix Affordable Housing Program
In 2019, the Honolulu City Council passed a bill for a pilot program to build affordable housing units in underdeveloped areas of Honolulu. But after nine months, only two developers had applied to the...
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City Finally Finds A Replacement To Join The HART Board
The city appears to have found someone new for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board, enabling the member who’s been most critical of the project’s handling fo finally step down. Joseph...
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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser Is Gutting Its Newsroom
In a devastating blow to Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper, leadership at the Honolulu Star-Advertiser told employees it intends to lay off about half of its union news staff by the end of the month....
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Honolulu Expands Small Business Relief Program
With a first wave of assistance to small businesses mostly dispursed, Honolulu is allocating a second allotment of $25 million to the Small Business Relief and Recovery Fund. Eligible businesses that...
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Hanabusa: There’s No Time For On-The-Job Training In A Crisis
Colleen Hanabusa spent more than 10 years in the Hawaii Senate, much of it as its president. She served twice in Congress over the past decade. When she wasn’t in office, Hanabusa worked as a...
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Shoddy Record Keeping By HPD Skews Public Picture Of Police Killings
Aaron Torres died handcuffed, face down in the dirt, legs shackled, with three Honolulu police officers pressed on his back outside his Nanakuli home. The 37-year-old’s death in 2012 was widely...
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Man Dies In Kaneohe While In Honolulu Police Custody
A 28-year-old man died in Kaneohe Wednesday while in police custody. He is the second person to die in the process of getting arrested by Honolulu police this year. His death comes as the Honolulu...
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Honolulu Police Chief Hopes Nationwide Reform Movement Skips Hawaii
Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard told the Honolulu Police Commission this week that she hopes the police reform that’s sweeping the nation skips Hawaii. “We are different,” she told the commission...
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Man Who Died In Honolulu Police Custody Identified As 28-Year-Old Kaneohe...
The man who died in police custody Wednesday was identified by the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office as Isaiah Pama, a 28-year-old Kaneohe resident who left behind a wife and three children. Pama is...
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John Pritchett: Police Protection?
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