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A bill introduced two years ago to restrict gifts to city employees never climbed high enough on the Honolulu City Council’s priority list to pass before it expired — so now Bill 23 has been introduced, again proposing tightened rules on gift-giving.
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In response to David Shapiro’s recent columns, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation CEO Lori Kahi- kina did not deserve the bullying and harassment that she received from HART board Chair Colleen Hanabusa.
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If the former president has any verifiable facts to back up his claims, then produce them. He cannot because they do not exist.
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A May article on wildfire risk says the on-scene commander has responsibility for determining necessary evacuation actions based on frontline conditions.
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May is over and with it the annual ALS Proclamation in recognition of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Awareness and ALS Families Appreciation Month signed by Gov. Josh Green.
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A letter on May 16 goes too far with falsehoods (“Israel using questionable justification for Gaza war,” Star-Advertiser).
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Honolulu Ocean Safety broke ground in a couple of different ways last week.
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Consider what’s more humane: leaving someone who’s mentally ill and homeless living in squalor and danger on the streets; or taking that person off the streets for help, perhaps even onto a road to a better life?
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It’s officially hurricane season in the central Pacific, which runs through Nov. 30.
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- By Gordon M. Arakaki
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Our views on race and race relations are shaped by where we grow up. I had the good fortune of being born and raised in Hawaii.
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Has anyone reviewed the results of the “Ohana Housing” experiment of several years ago?
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As I drove down Ward Avenue past the remains of TGI Fridays and the Honolulu Club, I saw nothing but new condominium structures being built.
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Addressing homelessness in Hawaii requires more than temporary shelters and short-term solutions.
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The verdict Thursday finding former President Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts against him will only propel his victory as president on Nov. 5.
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The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as “ … acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
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Last week, if Mayor Rick Blangiardi was looking at a list of candidates already filed to run for Honolulu mayor, he had to be smiling.
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State efforts to supercharge housing creation picked up steam on Tuesday when Gov. Josh Green signed a group of consequential housing bills, all of which reduce roadblocks to or strengthen potential incentives for development of new housing.
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June 2, 2024
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In Hawaii, approximately 8,000 3- and 4-year-olds lack adequate access to pre-K education. Enacted into state law in 2020, Act 46 set the ambitious goal of ensuring early learning access to all 3- and 4-year-olds statewide by 2032.
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