Josh Frost

Renewed Call for Replacing O‘ahu’s Jail Glosses Over Reality Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

Renewed Call for Replacing O‘ahu’s Jail Glosses Over Reality

Neither the Legislature nor the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has shown any real commitment to decarceration.

The New Law To Make Candidates Use Their Real Names Still Falls Short David Croxford/Civil Beat/2023

The New Law To Make Candidates Use Their Real Names Still Falls Short

The full legal names of people running in Hawaii elections will not be printed on ballots, but they should.

Proposed Raises For Honolulu City Officials Are Offensive Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Proposed Raises For Honolulu City Officials Are Offensive

There is no justifiable reason the Honolulu City Council should receive a 64% raise.

It’s Workers, Not Businesses, That Make Economies Thrive Cory Lum/Civil Beat

It’s Workers, Not Businesses, That Make Economies Thrive

And yet this obvious fact falls on deaf ears of members of the Hawaii Legislature year after year.