Kenji Price, U.S. attorney for Hawaii, last week announced new federal investigations into illegal gambling outfits in Hawaii. Price kicked off the action by saying the local- federal joint investigation has identified 80 illegal Oahu game rooms in both commercial areas and residential neighborhoods. Read more
Let’s take a look at the candidates waiting until February to file for the historic 2020 Hawaii elections. There’s more than the usual interest in local politics. Read more
In some ways it is fitting that the first really major obstacle in front of Honolulu’s still-not-built rail system is Dillingham Boulevard. Read more
Barring a last-minute reality check, U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has represented Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District for seven years, will continue her run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Read more
There are six or seven serious Honolulu politicians waking up and going to bed with a dream: the day they take the oath of office as Honolulu’s 18th elected mayor. Read more
For the protesters and Hawaii’s leaders, making the result a compromise and not a disaster, is an ability that today neither side appears to possess. Read more
The expected pushback is mounting, but the interesting reaction is that the folks at City Hall are not doing the usual retreat in the face of opposition. Read more
For the second time in his administration, Ige has been forced to pull back from the construction of the $1.4 billion project as protesters physically blocked the path up the mountain. Read more
Hawaii may top the ratings as the “happiest place to live” in the U.S., but it is the nation’s high-tech laughingstock. Read more
This week let’s talk about dogs. National politics is hateful, local politics is torpid and besides, we are entering the “Dog Days of Summer” and need to chill. Read more
At the end, building the telescope, neither delay nor talk, can be Ige’s only resolution. Read more
Of course, disgraced former police chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, who were convicted on federal conspiracy and obstruction charges, have no one except themselves to blame for crashing from crime fighters to convicts. Read more
If you think Mayor Kirk Caldwell and the Honolulu City Council last week really took care of the problems caused by Airbnb and other short-term vacation rentals in Honolulu, then your reality check is going to take a really long time. Read more
Gov. David Ige and Mayor Kirk Caldwell are likely to leave office with a legacy haunted by two big issues they never campaigned on, couldn’t hide from and are probably so divisive, they couldn’t win. Read more
Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye airport is crowded, dirty, needlessly confusing and remains this way despite decades of promises to do better. Read more
Death is the clear sign that Honolulu is in a life-threatening crisis and we have turned no corner, the tragedy has not found a remedy; instead it is increasingly a killer. Read more
Cracks are forming in the dam that Hawaii’s U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard built to keep out the reality of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. Read more
This year’s 10 million visitors to Hawaii include a group not in search of sun and mai tais, but money. Read more
It has been mulled over and promised for years, and now the state Legislature is finally taking a major step in reforming voting in Hawaii. Read more
A touch of financial reality will soon force itself into the conversation at City Hall. Read more
Any Hawaii politician who doesn’t understand their massive political power probably will not last long. Read more
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