Dispatches From The Third Floor
Honolulu City Council member Romy Cachola is questioning whether a public relations consultant hired by a city contractor to promote Honolulu rail inappropriately used public money to lobby him to support the controversial $5.2 billion project.
Mayor Peter Carlisle tried to smooth things over with the Honolulu City Council as budget deliberations wrapped up for the year. But a behind-the-scenes political gambit fell flat and left Carlisle with egg on his face even as he scored a compromise on what had been the biggest battle in an otherwise quiet process.
In a coincidental but connected postscript to that second story, the Environmental Protection Agency this morning unveiled a new biogas mapping tool as part of its efforts to encourage waste producers and wastewater treatment facilities liked Sand Island to generate electricity.
