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Fast Action Needed to Let Hawaii Lawyers Advise Medical Marijuana Industry Anita Hofschneider/Civil Beat

Fast Action Needed to Let Hawaii Lawyers Advise Medical Marijuana Industry

A late-in-the-game legal opinion saying attorneys could face ethics charges for helping medi-pot businesses get established requires quick action.

Setting the Record Straight: Hawaiians Are an ‘Inclusive People’

Setting the Record Straight: Hawaiians Are an ‘Inclusive People’

Citizenship in the Hawaiian Kingdom was never confined to one race. So a race-based election to create a race-based nation would be blatantly non-Hawaiian.

Randy Iwase鈥檚 Demanding Leadership Just Right for the PUC Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

Randy Iwase鈥檚 Demanding Leadership Just Right for the PUC

Gov. David Ige nominated a leader to bring 鈥渢ransformation鈥 to the utilities commission. He鈥檚 getting his money鈥檚 worth.

Denby Fawcett: Can Churches Help Hawaii’s Homeless? Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Denby Fawcett: Can Churches Help Hawaii’s Homeless?

Episcopal priests urge their parishes to allow people to stay in church yards, halls or parking lots, or help them financially.

Todd Simmons: Carly Fiorina and the Race to a Government Shutdown CNN via YouTube

Todd Simmons: Carly Fiorina and the Race to a Government Shutdown

The former CEO’s false attack on Planned Parenthood, a breakout moment in the GOP debate, stoked an environment where a shutdown is all but certain.

Let’s Work Together to Find the Best Answers for Maunalua Bay Kim Ubert/Flickr

Let’s Work Together to Find the Best Answers for Maunalua Bay

We have not been kind to the bay, though it continues to be kind to us. Still,聽if Maunalua thrives, so do we.

 

Curt Sanburn: Hughes’ Mauka-to-Makai Moves Into Kewalo Basin KewaloHarbor.com

Curt Sanburn: Hughes’ Mauka-to-Makai Moves Into Kewalo Basin

First, the Texas developer gets control of the public facility and rebrands it “Kewalo Harbor.” Now it wants to redevelop the place as its own retail-heavy waterfront.

Monday Memo: Healing Maunalua, #IStandWithAhmed Richard Wiens/Civil Beat

Monday Memo: Healing Maunalua, #IStandWithAhmed

A new effort blooms to restore the health of Maunalua Bay; key takeaways from the scandalous arrest of the a 14-year-old with a love for science.

Solution to Teacher Shortages: Teaching Academies Civil Beat/2010

Solution to Teacher Shortages: Teaching Academies

A successful academy in Waianae and another serving Native Hawaiians show the promise in replicating this approach throughout Hawaii.

Extend Hawaii Lobbying Laws to the Executive Branch Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Extend Hawaii Lobbying Laws to the Executive Branch

The case of an IT vendor pocketing $8 million in fees despite failing to deliver on a software contract illustrates the inadequacy of the state’s lobbying law.