10 Must Read Stories From The Week Of Feb. 11-15

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We didn’t have a meteor disintegrate over Hawaii.

But that’s sort of what seems to have happened to the Public Land Development Corporation. At least for now.

This was a week when the theme of living and dying at the Legislature really started to play out, particularly with the PLDC. The House took up the issue first and voted to abolish the agency. House Speaker Joe Souki admitted its creation was a mistake to begin with. The Senate looks like it , but at least two influential senators would like to see it live on.

We’re about three weeks away from the deadline by which legislation has to switch from one chamber to the next. So lawmakers are starting to plow through bills in short order.

The next political hot potato may well be the solar tax credit, after a University of Hawaii report suggested the state incentives for people to switch to photovoltaic systems could cost the state $1.4 billion in the long run.

We made some changes at Civil Beat this week, too. You may have noticed a new look on our home page — we moved our media player to a more prominent spot on the left-hand rail. Reporter’s blogs also have moved to the main home page blog — The Beat. But they also continue to populate the topic blogs as well, so you can now find them in two places.

Monday is President’s Day and that’s a holiday for government agencies, including the Legislature. We’ll be working, of course, but will go light on new stories on the site for the three-day weekend.

But there’s still plenty to read, including these 10 stories you really should catch up on:

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