How Council Members Spend Their Allowance

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Sure, televisions and travel got the headline, but it’s also true that members of the Honolulu City Council spent a lot of their allotments this year on communicating with constituents.

I dug into each member’s expenditure report, showed you who has the least left and compared the allowances to the mayor’s and those used by state lawmakers.

It’s all in our main story this morning. Read it here: It’s Your Money: Council Spends on Travel and TVs

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