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Hawai’i’s Working Families Can’t Wait David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Hawai’i’s Working Families Can’t Wait

Housing, food and utilities should not be out of reach for someone who gets up every morning and goes to work – sometimes multiple jobs.

New Homes — Even Expensive Ones — Help Everyone Chad Blair/Civil Beat/2026

New Homes — Even Expensive Ones — Help Everyone

Lower-income residents benefit most from new housing, research shows.

Hawai‘i Has Proven Solar Works. Now it Needs Speed Courtesy: Clearway Energy Group/2022

Hawai‘i Has Proven Solar Works. Now it Needs Speed

Projects take too long to permit, interconnect and construct. Those delays carry real consequences.

Students With Chronic Illness Shouldn’t Have To Choose Between Health And Education Getty Images

Students With Chronic Illness Shouldn’t Have To Choose Between Health And Education

Autoimmune conditions like lupus are more prevalent among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Asian populations

Hawaiʻi Pays The Highest Electric Rates In The Nation. We Don’t Have To Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2019

Hawaiʻi Pays The Highest Electric Rates In The Nation. We Don’t Have To

Let’s make it easier and faster to permit and build clean energy in Hawaiʻi.

LNG Is About Being Bold, Doing Good And Getting It Right iStock/alvarez/2024

LNG Is About Being Bold, Doing Good And Getting It Right

Hawaiʻi needs reliable, affordable and safe energy to power and sustain us.

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.