Honolulu County

... Recktenwald today appointed three individuals to fill judicial positions in the District Court of the First Circuit ....

... Tupola served four years in the state House, starting in 2014, then was elected to the City Council, in 2020 ....

... asks the court to stop the City’s targeted enforcement actions—including sweeps, citations, and arrests—that disrupt and disenfranchise houseless people, unless and until there is adequate shelter ....

... The continuing shortage of qualified school bus drivers statewide will suspend bus transportation services at ten of Oʻahu’s 24 high schools and four schools on Kauaʻi when the new school year begins ....

... OIP also found, sua sponte, that the PCSC executive session minutes did not convey a true reflection of the matters discussed at the meeting ....

... Folks on the Neighbor Islands:  Don’t laugh. You might be next! ....

... Based on the high error rates, we concluded that DHR’s data was unreliable and insufficient to conduct further analysis .... 

... City to accept applications for a second tranche of relief funding for non-profits affected by Covid-19 ....

... Hawaii Department of Health gave conditional approval to U.S. Navy officials to defuel surge tanks next to the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility ....

... a volunteer board created to advise DPR on recreational, cultural, and public entertainment opportunities at City parks and facilities ....

... Approximately 480,000 gallons of fuel are expected to be removed from the surge tanks. Defueling operations are expected to begin on July 17, 2023, and run through July 30, 2023....

... 13 total intakes, 3 patient discharges, and a total of 189 unduplicated shower uses from members of the surrounding community during the first month of project operation ....

... Green will nominate a successor to Circuit Judge Christine E. Kuriyama, who retired in June 2023 ....

... BWS called for a voluntary 10% water reduction last summer, park users reduced their use by 15.4% ....

... Housing, the Honolulu rail, the Aloha Stadium, homelessness and the 64% pay raise for Honolulu City Council members ....

... All repairs to the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, mandated by the Hawaii Department of Health, are complete, Joint Task Force – Red Hill announced in a Wednesday night news release ....

... how many years has this been going on? ....

... Between April 2023 and May 2023, CCH discharged effluent from the wastewater treatment plant in exceedance of daily NPDES permit limits for enterococci on 13 occasions ....

... HDOT is working to redevelop Pier 7 at Honolulu Harbor which has been vacant and inactive for the last 14 years, after Bishop Museum closed the Hawaiʻi Maritime Center ....

... setting the framework to begin defueling about 104 million gallons of fuel from the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility ....

... Report summarizes potential chemical exposure to residents from 2021 jet fuel exposure ....

... Keith Suzuka will serve as Deputy Director of the Department of Land Management and Ben Sullivan will serve as Deputy Director of the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency ....

... in Honolulu a $250K salary is worth $82,672.04 ....

... a computer glitch prevented Sub District 11 voters from being able to electronically submit their votes ....

... Honolulu average household credit card debt is $14,927, up by $2,498 ....

... address the structural problems in the housing market, namely the strict regulatory environment ....

... An open letter to the Honolulu City Council.  RE: The pay raise you are about to get ....

... The city and county of Honolulu tried to walk back a mistakenly-approved vanity plate reading "FCKBLM," but the license plate holder says that violates his free speech rights ....

... ask for up to three months of additional support ....

... decrease the rates on the first tier of Residential A homes from $4.50 to $4.00 per $1,000 and increase rates on the second tier from $10.50 to $11.40 per $1,000 ....

... 209 days spent waiting for a permit often equates to higher costs for labor and materials ....

... Desalination is an expensive energy hog ....

... the messaging OHA uses to promote this development project could be connected to our failure to rally support in the legislature ....

... increasing taxes on anyone can come with its own set of problems ....

... HCDA informational hearing on June 7 at 10:30 on Kakaako Makai Rule Amendments ....

... Red Hill 2023 Consent Order between the EPA, Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) ....

... see the list of elected candidates ....

... the “empty homes” theory is just another distraction from the real cause of Hawaii’s housing crisis, which is regulations that block homebuilding ....

... After a lengthy investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption at the DPP, honest services wire fraud charges were filed against six individuals, including Inouye, arising out of schemes in which employees of the DPP took bribes in exchange for performing official acts at DPP ....

... The new commissioners will be selected by Mayor Rick Blangiardi and Council Members Matt Weyer (District 2), Tommy Waters (District 4), Calvin Say (District 5), Tyler Dos-Santos-Tam (District 6), and Val Okimoto (District 8) ....

... 30 percent decrease over the past four years in the number of out-of-state permits issued in the City and County of Honolulu, falling to 2,545 in 2022 from 3,655 in 2019 ....

... new rules designed to rein in the offensive language motorists want to affix to their Hawaiʻi license plates ....

... Honolulu resident opinions about community and city services in the 2022 National Community Survey (NCS). These results were compared with results from other communities ....

... The parties will convene over the next three to four months to develop a blueprint to achieve the shared goal of clean water for the future ....

... a complete visual map of TheBus and Rail system ....

... the restriction was put in place before OHA chose to acquire the property ....

... wastewater discharges that exceed the bacteria limits in its state permit on 13 days beginning on April 8, and most recently on May 4. The highest exceedances, reported on April 28 and May 1, were over six times the limit set by DOH ....

... After eight years of inaction, DoH forced DOBOR's hand by grabbing control of their budget ....

"EPA Region 9 Must Continue Oversight Throughout the Decontamination and Closure of the Red Hill Facility"

... The Energy Star recognition comes after the City completed Phase 1 of its energy and water-saving Performance Contract at 10 municipal buildings, including the Fasi Building ....