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Hawaii’s Top 5 Statehouse Issues?
No surprise with homelessness, housing, transportation and the economy. But the future of Native Hawaiians, too?
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Criminal Justice Reform Fails To Get Much Legislative Love
Neighbor island facilities received some significant financial help, but the state’s main facilities on Oahu will remain overcrowded and crumbling.
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Chun Oakland To Leave Senate
The Hawaii lawmaker will not run for re-election this year after serving in the state House and Senate for 26 years.
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2016 Session: AC For Schools, Help For Housing And Homeless
The House and Senate also killed bills to let psychologists prescribe drugs and fund a new jail on Oahu, but did hand water permits to A&B on Maui.
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School AC Bill Now Law
It calls for $100 million to pay for equipment and installation costs for air conditioning, heat-abatement measures and energy-efficiency measures.
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Joe Souki, A&B And Coffee
The House speaker insists that a bill allowing Alexander & Baldwin to continue to divert East Maui streams is not special legislation.
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Governor Ige Grades Hawaii Lawmakers’ Work This Session
Pleased by funding for his priorities, indifferent to failed police reform, Ige gives his former colleagues in the Legislature a “B.”
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Sports Authority Bill Misses Cut
The legislation called for setting up an agency to attract sports and entertainment events to Hawaii.
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Legislature Passes Airbnb Bill, Others As Session Wanes
Hawaii lawmakers killed, among others, a measure to let psychologists on the neighbor islands prescribe drugs.
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Hawaii Nurses May Soon Be Able To Certify Medical Marijuana Patients
The Hawaii Legislature updated its medical cannabis law, but advocates say there’s more work to be done.