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Welcome to Inside Honolulu! The Honolulu City Council may be recessed until 2011, but District 1 voters will today find out who will represent them at the council level. Civil Beat is reporting from the inside.

Special Election Day Arrives

The wait is nearly over. Voters in the District 1 City Council special election will soon find out whom they’ve elected to represent them at Honolulu Hale. District 1 residents picked from one of 14 names on the ballot. Results are expected to start rolling in after polls close at 6 p.m. Stick with Civil Beat for full coverage and analysis. Results will also be available on the city’s

Rail Officials Gear Up for Public Hearings

Public hearings on rail are a boisterous event in Honolulu. There’s a lot of passion on all sides, and folks will have a chance to express themselves at two public hearings early next year. The city’s Department of Planning and Permitting will host hearings about the Special Management Area Use Permit on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6. The City Council will then take up the issue later next month.

Also on the rail front, officials have paused preliminary engineering soil testing for the time being. A rail spokesperson says many people in the division are on vacation, and the testing will resume after the holidays.