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This New Military Spending Site Is Floundering Cory Lum/Civil Beat

This New Military Spending Site Is Floundering

The state launched a website to track defense dollars with the help of a federal grant. But now there’s no one keeping the site updated.

Hawaii Businesses Are Making Billions Off The Military Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Hawaii Businesses Are Making Billions Off The Military

Hawaii is second only to Virginia in the amount of money that flows into the state through Defense Department spending.

Trump’s Federal Judge Nominee For Hawaii Gets Warm Reception In DC Hawaii Office of Attorney General

Trump’s Federal Judge Nominee For Hawaii Gets Warm Reception In DC

Mark Bennett, the former state AG under Hawaii’s last Republican governor, received bipartisan accolades during his Senate confirmation hearing.

New Federal Budget Deal Has Lots Of Goodies For Hawaii Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

New Federal Budget Deal Has Lots Of Goodies For Hawaii

While President Trump’s proposed cuts would have hurt the Aloha State, a new budget deal increased funding for many programs.

Hawaii Federal Judge Nomination Offers Glimpse Of Partisan Dealmaking Nick Grube/Civil Beat/2018

Hawaii Federal Judge Nomination Offers Glimpse Of Partisan Dealmaking

Prosecutor Jill Otake, who once had a shot at the job under Obama, takes her first step toward confirmation in the Trump era.

Partisan Gridlock Leads To Federal Shutdown Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

Partisan Gridlock Leads To Federal Shutdown

UPDATED: The shutdown is having varying effects on the operations of Hawaii’s national parks and the Pearl Harbor monument.

Trump Immigration Plans Would Hit Hawaii’s Filipino Families Hard Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Trump Immigration Plans Would Hit Hawaii’s Filipino Families Hard

Filipinos have become the state’s largest ethnic group, in part because of family-based immigration policies.

Trump Nominates Honolulu Attorney Jill Otake For Federal Judgeship Tracy Wright Corvo

Trump Nominates Honolulu Attorney Jill Otake For Federal Judgeship

The announcement was praised by by Hawaii’s two Democratic senators, Brian Schatz and Mazie Hirono.

Why Does This Guy Make Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz Nervous? Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Why Does This Guy Make Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz Nervous?

Barry Myers is Trump’s nominee to head NOAA but the Hawaii senator says he is “questionable choice.”

Hawaii Judge Is Right To Keep Fighting Oppressive Travel Bans Anthony Quintano/Civil Beat

Hawaii Judge Is Right To Keep Fighting Oppressive Travel Bans

Judge Derrick Watson says the Trump administration continues to ignore requirements imposed by federal courts.