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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 17, 2024
To meet state needs after the fire-ravaged Maui disaster, Gov. Josh Green rerouted a staggering $172 million in emergency state funds from various state programs to start paying for the fire.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 10, 2024
As Honolulu Star-Advertiser followers have noted, Aloha Stadium is not essential. “We have been living without it for four years, ” one reader commented.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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March 3, 2024
Gov. Josh Green knows what he is up against, but that doesn’t make the job any easier.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 25, 2024
The staggering consequences of the fiery August destruction of Lahaina continue to shape the future of Hawaii.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 18, 2024
Blangiardi’s key points mirror Honolulu’s major needs: affordable housing, a reduction in homelessness, and improved public safety.
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- By Richard Borreca
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Feb. 11, 2024
Packing some of the country’s most all-encompassing gun laws — and some of the lowest rates of gun violence — Hawaii is getting attention for a new state Supreme Court decision.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Feb. 4, 2024
The problem was not the police action as much as Logan’s unilateral and tone-deaf response.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 28, 2024
Since launching his campaign for governor, Josh Green has had a consistent twin message: Hawaii needs more money and it should come from visitors to the state.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 21, 2024
More than in most years, the opening of the 2024 state Legislature is a fill-in-the-blanks exercise.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 14, 2024
Running a business in Hawaii — a state boasting what is arguably the wettest spot on the globe, Mount Waialeale with an average annual rainfall of 450 inches — means you should mind your electrical wiring and think twice about insulation.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Jan. 7, 2024
Gov. Josh Green’s finger may not be on the button, although in discussions late last year, he started to mention “the nuclear option.”
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 31, 2023
When Hawaii’s governor changes from his almost-ever-present blue physician scrubs to more common gubernatorial garb, he still has the same worrisome patient: the state of Hawaii.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 24, 2023
Gov. Josh Green is closing out 2023 with more ambition than caution as he steers the state away from the worries of this year.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 17, 2023
Should you live in Hawaii, or pack up and leave?
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 10, 2023
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser last week reported a big “no” in legalese, saying that “1st Circuit Judge John M. Tonaki granted summary judgment on the city’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit outright.”
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Dec. 3, 2023
Then catastrophe struck, and Green’s political fate could become an aftershock to the Lahaina tragedy in which at least 100 people died and the Maui town of Lahaina burned in the face of wildfires on Aug. 8.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Nov. 26, 2023
Presidential politics heads to Hawaii early next year as Democrats and Republicans hold caucuses to support candidates from the major parties.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Nov. 19, 2023
When bad news is to be delivered, trust the federal government to pull no punches.
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- By Richard Borreca Special to the Star-Advertiser
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Nov. 10, 2023
When he took office, Gov. Josh Green sent his administration into battle against Hawaii’s persistent housing crisis and the accompanying economic trouble it causes. But, then everything changed with the night of Aug. 8.
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- By Richard Borreca
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Nov. 5, 2023
When Hawaii’s most famous U.S. senator, Daniel K. Inouye, died and was buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl, then-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama attended.
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- By Richard Borreca
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Oct. 29, 2023
Chip Fletcher, the award-winning interim dean of the University of Hawaii’s School of Ocean Science and Technology and an impassioned defender of Hawaii’s oceans and beaches, is as the saying goes, “one of the good things about Hawaii.”
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