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Civil Bytes: H1 and Rail Inspire Visions of a Driverless Future

Civil Bytes: H1 and Rail Inspire Visions of a Driverless Future

Technology will bring out the best in transit when we finally pry the hands of the masses off their steering wheels and leave the driving to computers.

21st Century Schools Require a 21st Century Board of Education Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat

21st Century Schools Require a 21st Century Board of Education

Hawaii’s statewide school board needs to improve its own communication and technology capabilities if it wants schools to improve.

Peter Apo: The Hawaiians 鈥 a ‘Divided People’ Courtesy of OHA

Peter Apo: The Hawaiians 鈥 a ‘Divided People’

Both Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians need to work on making Hawaii whole.

The Army in Hawaii: Fight to Save It, Prepare to Lose It U.S. Army

The Army in Hawaii: Fight to Save It, Prepare to Lose It

Business leaders are right to pull out all the stops to preserve the Army’s Hawaii presence at its current level, but we also need to start thinking about what comes next if major cuts are made.

Facts and Fantasy About Hawaii TV News Consolidation PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Facts and Fantasy About Hawaii TV News Consolidation

Hawaii News Now creates the illusion of competition for news and entertainment even as it is all under one monopolistic roof.

Denby Fawcett: 2015 Legislature 鈥 Time To Stop the Financial Bleeding PF Bentley/Civil Beat/2014

Denby Fawcett: 2015 Legislature 鈥 Time To Stop the Financial Bleeding

Lawmakers are expected to focus on major fiscal problems facing the state with less attention to hot-button political issues.

Urban Hawaii: When the World Is Your Neighbor, Do You Ever Meet? PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Urban Hawaii: When the World Is Your Neighbor, Do You Ever Meet?

When a big, fancy tower is built it creates a different sort of 鈥渘eighborhood鈥 from the ones many of us grew up in.

Praise for Outgoing PUC Chair Mina Morita PF Bentley/Civil Beat

Praise for Outgoing PUC Chair Mina Morita

We should be thanking her for blocking the Aina Koa Pono project, not criticizing her over it.

Tom Yamachika: Honolulu Rail 10 Percent Surcharge Is a Bad Tax Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Tom Yamachika: Honolulu Rail 10 Percent Surcharge Is a Bad Tax

Honolulu citizens are bearing the county surcharge to pay for rail, but the state is draining the pot far more than it deserves.

Culture Cave: Honolulu Museum of Art Finally Gets a Curator of Hawaii Art

A conversation with Healoha Johnston, who faces the challenge of sleuthing out the histories of pieces in the collection.