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Lawmakers have plans to allow the public back to the State Capitol building, but lawmakers are also getting ready to conduct business entirely remotely.

Precinct officials with the party will decide on Kahele’s successor.

The Legislature ordered the transfers in the early 2000s to help boost ag production.

The new proposal from the state Office of Information Practices gives boards more options, including ways to meet remotely.

The 50th state would do well to follow the lead of the 49th — Alaska — in further reforming its election system.

Updated: A national organization has volunteered to help the board in the meantime as members prepare to ask the Legislature for help again.

Even public employee union leaders are warning their workers that the Legislature will have to make the best of a dire budget situation this coming year.

State public safety boards have been shortchanged since they were put in place. But lawmakers suggest there may be little help in sight.

Hawaii’s attorney general has assembled a team to advise lawmakers on the issues, and how Hawaii might regulate legal use.

Discussions with unions are already underway as furloughs could begin in December. Gov. David Ige’s financial plan also includes a big loan from the feds.