HART Board Asks City To Investigate Bullying Claims By Rail CEO
The discord among top leadership of the $10 billion Honolulu rail project has gotten so bad the mayor has stepped in.
Transition To Renewables Not To Blame For Recent Power Grid Challenges
Hawaii’s rolling blackouts were due to unexpected outages of oil-fired generating plants at a time when others were offline.
Fewer Candidates Filed For Election In Hawaii This Year Than In The Past 10 Years
Dozens of incumbent lawmakers face no challenger and even three Honolulu City Council members have no opposition despite public uproar over recent huge pay raises.
As mpox cases rise, experts urge complete, 2-part vaccinations
Prevention Resource Network workers staff an STI mobile health unit in New Jersey. The network has been providing mpox awareness and vaccines as mpox cases rise across several states this…
Tax cut trigger likely to be hit in August; could total $18M revenue drop for FY 2025
Senate Finance Chair Eric Tarr, seen in the West Virginia Senate Chamber on May 21, 2024, said he expects to see a tax cut trigger hit at the end of…
2024 Louisiana legislative session: Chipping away at sunshine
Gov. Jeff Landry addresses the Louisiana Legislature at the start of its special session on redistricting and election matters Jan. 15, 2024, at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. (Michael…
Election deniers stop repeal of Louisiana’s burdensome voting machines law
Voters trickle into a downtown Baton Rouge precinct Saturday, Oct. 13, 2023, for the statewide primary election. (Jonathan Peterson for Louisiana Illuminator) Under renewed pressure from right-wing election deniers, the…
Critics say Tennessee’s blended sentencing law needs changes after expedited passage
A new law requires juveniles 16 and older to be held and tried as adults for first-degree and second-degree murder, even though state law prohibits juveniles from being incarcerated with…
White nationalist, anti-LGBTQ activity on the rise, annual hate report shows
One of the hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the “alt-right” who marched during the “Unite the Right” rally Aug. 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Southern Poverty…
Firestone scrambled to shut down state-approved recovery residence where sex offenders lived
Roohallah Mobarez, CEO of Mobarez Solutions and operator of a recently opened recovery residence in Firestone, was a topic of public comment during an April 24, 2024, Firestone Board of…