Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2018 elections.
Nine months after 17 classmates and teachers were gunned down at their Florida school, Parkland students are finally facing the moment they’ve been leading up to with marches, school walkouts and voter-registration events throughout the country: their first Election Day. Read more
Republican candidate for lieutenant governor Marissa Kerns said she didn’t attend a televised debate on Monday night because her running mate, Republican gubernatorial candidate Andria Tupola, deliberately failed to inform her that she had been invited. Read more
Flights to the mainland, hotel rooms, thousands of dollars worth of meals, rental cars and Uber and Lyft rides are among the hundreds of expenses that state Rep. Kaniela Ing failed to report on his campaign spending reports over the years, according to updated reports he filed over the weekend with the Hawaii Campaign Spending Commission. Read more
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Preserve Our Hawaii, a powerful coalition funded heavily by local unions, has spent more than $600,000 in recent weeks on advertising urging residents to vote “no” in the general election on whether to hold a state constitutional convention, campaign spending reports show. Read more
The trend also is raising concerns about whether voters can be assured their ballots will count or be notified in time if there is a problem. Voting rights activists want to ensure that voters are given a reasonable chance to fix any problems. Read more
Republican candidate for governor Andria Tupola deliberately failed to inform her running mate Marissa Kerns that Kerns had been invited to Monday night’s televised debate, and Kerns therefore didn’t attend, Kerns said today. Read more
Gov. David Ige has spent nearly $359,000 on his general election campaign against Republican Andria Tupola so far, and has spent more than $2.88 million on his overall re-election effort, according to his latest report with the state Campaign Spending Commission. Read more
A veteran legislator and first-time House candidate are going head to head in a race for one of Oahu’s fastest-growing regions. Read more
Republican state Rep. Andria Tupola pledged to do more to cope with Hawaii’s crime problem if she is elected governor, while Gov. David Ige used a televised hourlong debate Monday night to stress his record of accomplishment in areas such as building housing and coping with homelessness. Read more
Republican state Rep. Andria Tupola’s campaign for governor is playing out amid the noise and bitterness of the national midterm elections. Read more
The great Duke Kahanamoku wisely knew that just because he’d win the mayoral election, that didn’t mean he should run. Read more
There is absolutely no doubt where Green, a Big Island emergency room physician, stands with Ige: right next to him with a big grin. Read more
Two Honolulu City Council seats are up for grabs in the general election and who wins could determine the success of Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s agenda during his last two years occupying the third-floor corner of Honolulu Hale. Read more
Val Okimoto, a mother of two, may be the Republican Party’s best hope in Democrat-dominant Hawaii. Read more
Walk-in absentee voting for the general election begins Tuesday and runs through Nov. 3. Registered voters are allowed to visit any early walk-in voting location in their county to cast their ballot. Read more
Former Congressman Ed Case, the Democratic candidate running for Hawaii’s 1st Congressional district, expects to fulfill Congress’ role as a check and balance on the executive branch if he’s elected and Democrats retake control of the House. Read more
The Hawaii Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate a question on the Nov. 6 general election ballot is a sensible move. Read more
Community activist Sharon Moriwaki is heading to the Nov. 6 general election with momentum from her defeat of incumbent Brickwood Galuteria in the Democratic primary for the Senate District 12 seat, which spans Kakaako to Waikiki. Read more
State Rep. Tom Brower seeks a seventh term representing Waikiki and Ala Moana. But his opponent, Republican Kathryn Henski-Stark is challenging him for a second time. Read more
Today’s ConCon debate echoes some themes from the lead-up to the previous Constitutional Convention, held through the summer of 1978. Read more
There are intense times ahead for the Honolulu City Council. Read more
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