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UPDATED: The journalist and filmmaker said he would provide an inquisitiveness that’s been sorely lacking on the board.

Joe Uno says he’s being targeted for his support to stop rail at Middle Street and he’s incensed at the choice of replacement: filmmaker Anthony Aalto.

Utilities often aren’t where they’re shown on the drawings. For rail work on Dillingham, buried hazards are a complicated and expensive reality.

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that leadership changes at the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation may be coming. Will former chair Colleen Hanabusa succeed Toby Martyn?

The move comes as the board faces scrutiny for its questionable handling of two recent consultant contract awards.

Normally there’s a six-month cutoff to investigate such matters, but OIP made an exception due to the “significant public interest” in HART.

Documents suggest a contract for federal lobbying services was already a done deal before it was put out to bid.

Colleen Hanabusa says she drafted bills and monitored legislation on her own, not because she expected a contract or financial reward from the transit board.

Newly released documents confirm what many suspected: that the contract and its restrictive qualifications were written with the former congresswoman in mind.

The rail authority has also been borrowing on its own to cover its costs and pay its contractors.