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This Rich Hawaiʻi Super PAC Is Already Shaping A Key Statewide Election Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

This Rich Hawaiʻi Super PAC Is Already Shaping A Key Statewide Election

Pacific Resource Partnership has become a major player in the state’s most important political races.

Lee Cataluna: Gov. Green Still Can’t Leave The State Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Lee Cataluna: Gov. Green Still Can’t Leave The State

By swapping an un-elected bureaucrat for scandal-tainted Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, Green has not solved the problem of leaving the leadership of the state to the political equivalent of a substitute teacher.

Will Caron: Tools Of The Trade Will Caron/Civil Beat/2026

Will Caron: Tools Of The Trade

Politics, policy and public affairs as seen through the eyes of our political cartoonist.

Passing Bills Is One Thing. Implementing Them Is A Different Story Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Passing Bills Is One Thing. Implementing Them Is A Different Story

The Legislature does a poor job following up on what lawmakers want and whether it actually happens.

Hawaiʻi Can’t Afford To Wait For A Perfect Energy Solution iStock/Suphanat Khumsap/2025

Hawaiʻi Can’t Afford To Wait For A Perfect Energy Solution

LNG has been shown to lower costs, improve grid flexibility and reduce emissions compared to the oil we currently burn.

HMSA-HPH Merger Is Not A Solution To Hawaiʻi Health Care Problems David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

HMSA-HPH Merger Is Not A Solution To Hawaiʻi Health Care Problems

The first priority should be reducing practice costs with a much simpler, more transparent payment system.

Neal Milner: We Are All Victims Of The Sylvia Luke Mess Kalany Omengkar/Civil Beat/2023

Neal Milner: We Are All Victims Of The Sylvia Luke Mess

Her decision not to run for reelection doesn’t address the bigger problem — how inept the state is when it comes to corruption investigations.

Why Hawaiʻi Needs A ‘Clean Slate’ Law Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Why Hawaiʻi Needs A ‘Clean Slate’ Law

They streamline existing criminal record clearance processes by automating them and expanding who is eligible.

Did A Senate Committee’s Private Discussions Violate Hawaiʻi’s Constitution? Screenshot/2026

Did A Senate Committee’s Private Discussions Violate Hawaiʻi’s Constitution?

Ways and Means was voting publicly on the state budget before Committee Chair Donovan Dela Cruz suddenly ordered a recess. Why did he do that?

Denby Fawcett: Hard Questions About Public Land Use In Kaimukī Denby Fawcett/Civil Beat/2026

Denby Fawcett: Hard Questions About Public Land Use In Kaimukī

Japanese kyudo archery only attracts a small number of users on Oʻahu but a new facility would take up considerable public space.