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Gov. David Ige is not on board with much of the Legislature’s fiscal plan including how to spend federal bailout money and public worker pay cuts.

If the economy tanks further, it will be necessary to cut salaries, implement furloughs, skip pay raises and reduce payments to health plans and pensions.

A new financial plan taps into mostly unused funds while moving around money for affordable housing and Aloha Stadium.

UPDATED: Some neighbor island lawmakers will be flying to Oahu for the shortened session.

If details on social distancing and constitutionality can be worked out, the Hawaii Legislature could meet this month.

The Senate panel members planned to visit the airport on Friday to see for themselves how the screening and enforcement process is working.

Other governments and agencies are meeting using technology. Our lawmakers should too. There is just too much pressing business that demands attention.

There is no practical reason why the Legislature cannot continue session online; lawmakers just need to vote to change the House and Senate rules to permit it.

Tempers over the Ige administration’s slow response to the growing pandemic boiled over Friday at a special Senate committee hearing.

The COVID-19 calamity means the Hawaii Legislature’s grand plans for the 2020 session may be just pipe dreams.