Courtesy Hawaiʻi County/2026
Put Power In Our Shelters Before The Next Storm
We need to keep the lights on, provide refrigeration and support medical equipment.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2026
Is Hawaiʻi Creating Enough Opportunity For Locals To Live Here?
A labor market dominated by replacement openings is fundamentally different from one driven by rapid employment growth.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat
All Aloha, Little Action: Hawaiʻi’s Underused Sister-City Network
Sister-city partnerships should be more than photo ops. They need to be sustained, nurtured and aimed at measurable public benefits.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2023
Keep Hawaiʻi’s Reef Fish Where They Belong — On The Reef
The Board of Land and Natural Resources must protect these resources for Hawaiʻi’s people and future generations.
Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021
Cats Vs. Birds? It Shouldn’t Be One Or The Other
After 23 years in animal welfare, I think we’re asking the wrong question.
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.