Hawaii’s Top 5 Statehouse Issues?
No surprise with homelessness,聽housing, transportation and the economy. But the future of Native Hawaiians, too?
has released its list of in statehouses across the country.
“Everyone knows public policy in the states is more active than in Congress,” says the report. “So far this year states have passed 19,313 bills to Capitol Hill鈥檚 150.聽That鈥檚 a lot of legislation.”
What’s important in Hawaii?
Homelessness,聽housing, transportation and the economy are the top four, according to Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Gordon Pang, who was consulted for the survey and offered brief explanations as to why he picked them
I’d say Pang called it right. But the fifth issue caught me a little bit by surprise: Native Hawaiians and the future.
“Native Hawaiians continue to disagree on the future of the sovereignty movement, or even whether there should be one,” he wrote. “A constitutional convention in February was fraught with conflict, disagreement and protests. Some want a ‘nation within a nation’ model, while others seek an international tribunal.”
