Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
Mayor Rick Blangiardi: Why Honolulu Needs CORE Now More Than Ever
Successful public safety and public health programs adapt as practitioners learn what works.
David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
Meaningful Oversight Needed To Improve Honolulu’s CORE Operations
We need to invest in an alternative 24-hour, seven-day-a-week mobile crisis response.
James Norman Hall Museum, Tahiti
New Book On Tahiti In The 1920s Recalls Ties To Hawaiʻi
It was a time when artists and writers traveled with typewriters or paint and canvas instead of laptops.
Moviegoing In Hawaiʻi Shouldn’t Take An ‘Odyssey’ For Rural Audiences
The state once had hundreds of movie theaters. Now there are less than two dozen commercial movie houses.
Lahaina Community Land Trust/2026
Holding Lahaina: A Community Land Trust Shows What’s Possible for Hawaiʻi
Land can be protected from speculation, benefiting communities in perpetuity.
iStock/Suphanat Khumsap/2025
Hawaiʻi Just Can’t Afford LNG
Costs are certain to rise dramatically, just as they did with Honolulu rail and the H-3.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
Hawaiʻi’s Teacher Shortage Is At An Inflection Point
It’s not just a staffing problem but a signal that the state needs a more deliberate, forward-looking approach to workforce planning.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
City Council Failed On Empty Homes Tax, But Oʻahu Voters May Still Decide
We need to keep the housing we have and the housing we build available to local families.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
It’s Time To Re-Envision The Aloha Stadium District
Hawaiʻi taxpayers deserve an independent legal and financial review.
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The Word That Almost Kept Me From Getting Help
Addiction inherited a vocabulary that treats every person in it as permanently incomplete — relapsing, remitting, never quite arriving.