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Some newer administrative roles in the DOE’s salary records in recent years fetch high salaries.

While the mayor and other top officials usually earn more on Hawaii’s most populous island, there’s a big exception.

How to explore the plethora of information about thousands of public employees.

The medical examiner and the top executives at HART are making the biggest salaries.

But counterparts in the private sector still make far more than doctors and administrators on the state payroll.

A decade’s worth of records finds high turnover and a decrease in analysts at the Auditor’s Office, but relative stability at the Ethics Commission.

The number of state employees has stayed remarkably consistent since 2011, but their salaries kept going up. Then the pandemic hit.

Rental car companies sold off part of their fleets to make up for economic losses caused by the pandemic.

Several market analysis programs have been discontinued in the past decade, including monthly reports on Hawaii produce like bananas and papayas.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs also wants several agencies, including county police departments, to release the data they maintain about Native Hawaiians.

While federally permitted, the Environmental Protection Agency hopes the data’s public release spurs facilities to reduce their chemical waste.

COVID-19, elections and more. What a year it’s been.

Recent studies show people are going out more as the pandemic drags on.

An average of 131,000 people came from Japan each month last year. In the first month of Safe Travels, 1,350 came.

Hawaii’s reopening on Oct. 15 resulted in economic recovery and community spread is the predominant mode of transmission, but Kauai and Maui were still affected by travel-related cases.

The Hawaii Foodbank has distributed nearly 19 million pounds of food since March. The statewide food insecurity rate for 2020 was projected to be 16.8%, but the figure was far greater for children at 29.4%, or 89,050.

People in Hawaii have plenty of COVID-19 dashboards to choose from, but important information sought by researchers and policymakers is still missing.

In this historic turnout, the president’s supporters turned out in larger numbers but not enough to influence state elections.

Many of the 67,000 or so travelers in the first week of Hawaii’s pre-travel testing program came with unapproved test results.

The state’s population has been declining for three years. Experts worry that the economy will suffer as more people move away due to changes caused by the coronavirus.

There doesn’t seem to be a clear data strategy for the virus response.

Ryan Ozawa was trying to produce ZIP code maps back when the state was publishing screenshots.