Kauai county to consider PLDC repeal reso

Kauai's county council will discuss a resolution on Wednesday calling for a rollback of the Public Land Development Corporation.

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State senate panel investigates “Wonder Blunder”

State capitol room 211 was packed for more than six hours Monday, as a special State Senate committee questioned University of Hawaii officials about the "Wonder Blunder" fumble. Here's an aggregation of relevant tweets. (And in a strange coincidence – Hawaii Independent Staff / Wonder Blunder / Read

Caldwell, Cayetano meet with Kokua Council

The Kokua Council, a senior-citizens advocacy organization, met with mayoral candidates Ben Cayetano and Kirk Caldwell today. The audio of their conversation is linked here.

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Local 5, Turtle Bay reach settlement

Full details of the agreement will be available Friday, according to the prepared statement reprinted below.

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Senate committee to meet Monday, 1pm on “Wonder Blunder”

State senators will begin their investigation of "Wonder Blunder," in which UH was defrauded of $200,000. The meeting begins at 1pm, Monday in Capitol Conference Room 211.

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Community members rally to stop Kahuku development

A rally was held Sunday to protest a Kahuku land development. More info is available in a post from Margaret Primacio.

"We want the linear descendants, and cultural descendants, to and the Koolauloa Hawaiian Civic Club to be consulted," said Margaret Primacio, Kahuku Plantation Residents Association. "We want the construction in the area stopped until a archeological inventory survey is done."

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New initiative surveys Hawaii houseless

Volunteers surveyed about 440 people in need, and found out that about 160 are considered vulnerable. Being vulnerable means the homeless have a serious medical illness, a serious mental health illness, or have been homeless for a long period of time. The challenge now is finding housing.

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Call for questions for mayoral candidates

The Independent is asking for your input on questions that we'll pose to Ben Cayetano and Kirk Caldwell, Honolulu's mayoral candidates. We'd like to include your voice to the greatest extent possible.

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