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Legislative Session Ended Strong For Kūpuna-Related Bills Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Legislative Session Ended Strong For Kūpuna-Related Bills

They include a measure to temporarily provide in-home health care and support services to eligible participants.

Community Is Still Our Strongest Medicine Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Community Is Still Our Strongest Medicine

In these difficult times, take a moment to reach out. Ask how someone is really doing. Listen. Be kind. Offer support.


Will Hawaiʻi Consumers Benefit From HMSA-HPH Partnership? Daniel Ramirez/Flickr

Will Hawaiʻi Consumers Benefit From HMSA-HPH Partnership?

While there may be benefits to a vertically integrated system, there will also be costs.

Beyond The Racial Trap: Native Hawaiian Programs And The Defense Of Vested Rights Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Beyond The Racial Trap: Native Hawaiian Programs And The Defense Of Vested Rights

Stripping political status to dismantle the trusts that sustain the people is not righteous; it is a corruption of the law.

Beth Fukumoto: Saving Hawaiʻi’s Income Tax Cuts Was No Small Feat Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Beth Fukumoto: Saving Hawaiʻi’s Income Tax Cuts Was No Small Feat

Budget negotiators made hard choices and delivered on a promise that was genuinely difficult to keep.

Makana Eyre: What’s Behind Hawaiʻi’s Love Affair With Toyota Tacomas? Courtesy photo

Makana Eyre: What’s Behind Hawaiʻi’s Love Affair With Toyota Tacomas?

I thought I was immune to the lure of the pickup. Then I hopped behind the wheel of my dad’s red stick shift.

New Approach To Free-Roaming Cat Management Urgently Needed Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

New Approach To Free-Roaming Cat Management Urgently Needed

We can only work together if we stop demonizing animals and stop taking each other’s tools off the table.

Sen. Brian Schatz Has ‘A Fair Amount Of Hope’ In Congress And The Country Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026

Sen. Brian Schatz Has ‘A Fair Amount Of Hope’ In Congress And The Country

Civil Beat met up with the Hawaiʻi senator when he was home in Honolulu last week for a freewheeling discussion on the state of national affairs.

AI Data Centers Are The New Plantations Unless We Build Them Differently Getty Images/iStockphoto/KanawatTH

AI Data Centers Are The New Plantations Unless We Build Them Differently

AI can support livelihoods, prosperity and culture, but only if island communities have a real say in how it is built and governed.

The Sunshine Blog: How Will The Anti-Citizens United Bill Affect Unions? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

The Sunshine Blog: How Will The Anti-Citizens United Bill Affect Unions?

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i.