"A lot of us don't have any vehicles at all to help us to get moving. The beach is pretty much all everyone knows. It has been our only home we know for a long, long time. It would be so greatly appreciated if we could have more time," Gayle Peeples wrote. According to her letter, Peeples has lived at Kea‘au for 15 years, along with her husband, daughter, son, son-in-law, and five grandchildren.

The potent combination of insurance industry dominance of the board and a nonprofit company not bound by government rules is a prescription for problems. Where's the accountability? Where's the transparency?

Community activist Choon James said of providing exemptions to urban developers, “Sweetheart exemptions should only be between sweethearts.”

Honolulu's Occupy encampment expanded into an overt protest of the financial system today.

The Foodbank usually tries to stock themselves with about 20 days worth of food to help distribute to churches and other community centers. Lately, though, the shelves at the Foodbank have become progressively lighter, and the group says they were down to only 8 days worth of meals at one point.

Two Martins – Trayvon Martin, killed February in Florida, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., killed 44 years ago today – were remembered in a candlelight vigil organized by the Honolulu chapter of the NAACP.

The candidates are: • Edward T. Knudson, former executive vice president of student learning at Moorpark College in California; • Erika L. Lacro, vice chancellor of academic affairs at Honolulu Community College; • Rafe Trickey, vice president of planning and institutional development at the College of the Marshall Islands.