FBI Illegal Disruption of Hawaii Republicans?
Bearing brunt of housing crisis, Hawaii’s youth are speaking up for the future: ‘I don’t want to leave’
HNN: … “I do really want to live here in the future but I just feel very discouraged, I feel like I cannot live here. I know that I might not be able to afford it, so I feel like I’m being pushed away,” Dalen Calistro said.
She’s just 16 years old — a student at Waipahu High School — already worrying about the future of housing. It’s a topic that she and her friends and classmates often discuss.
“I really do not want to leave Hawaii. It’s my home. I’ve been living here for 16 years, so I don’t want to leave this place but it’s just discouraging that the prices are just really high,” Calistro explained….
read … Bearing brunt of housing crisis, Hawaii’s youth are speaking up for the future: ‘I don’t want to leave’
Food insecurity rises in Hawaii amid increasing costs
SA: … A new study from nonprofit Hunger Free America found that 137,000 people across the state lived in food-insecure households between 2020 and 2022 — including 14.7% of children, 8.3% of employed adults and 4.4% of older residents….
read … Food insecurity rises in Hawaii amid increasing costs
DoE Names new Person to Screw up CIP Projects
CB: …The Hawaii Department of Education has a new official responsible for overseeing campus facilities as it struggles to handle millions of dollars in capital improvement project funds.
Audrey Hidano was appointed as interim assistant superintendent of the Office of Facilities and Operations last week, according to DOE’s website. Before joining the DOE earlier this year, Hidano served as deputy comptroller for the state Department of Accounting and General Services as well as deputy director of the Department of Transportation.
She was also co-founder of Hidano Construction Inc., which specialized in residential projects before it dissolved in 2016.
In her new role, Hidano will be responsible for overseeing the maintenance and construction of campus facilities, as well as school meals, transportation and security.
Hidano’s appointment comes less than three weeks after Randall Tanaka left the same role shortly after the department publicized its failure to spend $465 million in CIP funds….
read … After Spending Debacle, DOE Appoints New Assistant Superintendent To Oversee School Facilities
Public Safety Department Changes Name
CB: …Hawaii’s troubled network of prisons and jails will fall under the newly created Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation starting Monday, and its director is determined to make change. But he warns that deep reform will take time….
read … Hawaii Prison Chief Wants Department Changes To Bring ‘Paradigm Shift’
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