Honolulu County

...Project preps traffic for self-driving cars, more....

...Order 2020-22 does not allow for indoor or outdoor social gatherings to exceed 10 people....

...Honolulu Council District III candidate Alan Texeira was convicted of DUI March 10, 2020....

...These were affordable as private-sector units.  The city has added exactly ZERO affordable units to the available supply in Honolulu.  This is a waste of $4M that could have gone to build new units....

...3 foot storm surge at center of hurricane....

...Mayoral candidate forum with former U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, former Mayor Mufi Hannemann, Councilmember Kym Pine, and former State Rep. Bud Stonebraker....

• For Honolulu Mayor, Bud Stonebraker.   
• For Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney, RJ Brown  

...In 2010, the city estimated that it would spend $3.4 billion in capital costs through fiscal year 2020....  

...Eleven defendants charged in Hawaii federal court with racketeering and other offenses....

...on January 28, 2018, while working as on-duty officers, Rabago and Reginald Ramones conspired to force an individual to lick a urinal in a public bathroom...in a separate and unrelated incident prior to January, 2018, Rabago made another individual place his head in a public bathroom toilet in order to avoid arrest....

...sources say this is the result of a grand jury indictment....

...sponsored by Hawaii Women Lawyers....

...a resolution that would have authorized up to $26 million in borrowing to help fund its over-budget and behind-schedule rail project....

... The number of appointments available to the public is completely full. Every morning, hundreds of people try to access the website to get an appointment. This causes the system to freeze and crash, something reminiscent of the state's unemployment website in the early days of the pandemic ....

...Rick Hamada Hosts 12 Honolulu Mayoral Candidates July 7, 2020, in the 2020 Mayoral Candidate Forum sponsored by the Sales and Marketing Executives of Honolulu, KHVH 830AM Radio, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, and KHON....

...Honolulu county can't afford to borrow more for rail, Grassroot Institute says....

...Order 5: Non-Medical Grade Face Coverings now requires everyone on O‘ahu to wear non-medical grade face coverings over their noses and mouths.... 

...route 9 (Pearl Harbor-Kaimuki); 40 (Makaha-Honolulu); 42 (Ewa Beach-Waikiki); 88A (North Shore Express); and 501 (Mililani Mauka)....

...Online registration pilot project complete. Walk-in range usage beginning Wednesday, July 1....

...Caldwell expressed worries about the uncertainty of revenue collections that are supposed to pay for the city’s $9.2 billion rail project....

...This tax credit will be applied to next year’s taxes. Annual filing is required for this credit....

... Of the three candidates, two have family members that are already sitting in the Honolulu City Council ....

"...From now on everyone who is in line at HPD's firearms registration department by 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays will be served...."

...Honolulu Mayoral Candidate Keith Amemiya knows a lot about the ‘affordable’ housing system and how to ‘work’ it....

"...Current operational practices are reactive and appear to wait for park conditions to deteriorate before action is taken, rather than maintaining quality conditions...."

...use of CWAs, also known as project labor agreements, would drastically limit the use of nonunion employees on public projects, thereby reducing competition among bidding contractors and increasing costs for Honolulu taxpayers....

...The O‘ahu Pedestrian Plan’s draft pedestrian priority network open for public comment....

...to provide food assistance to recently unemployed individuals is set to conclude with two remaining food distribution events at Aloha Stadium....

...Parks and Recreation Online System, PROS, available to public beginning Wednesday, June 3 at 12 noon....

...Their legislation follows their recent initiative to create Hawaii’s first National Heritage Area at Ka’ena Point....

... a surprise on today's candidate printout ....

...City Council to hear union preference 'fixer bill' next Wednesday, June 3....

... They need better protections such as higher wages and safer working conditions....  Keith understands this deeply ....

...“Personal Service Providers” would be allowed to resume operations with modifications on Friday, May 29....

... Earlier this month, the Hawaii Republican Party’s (HRP) Chairwoman Ms. Shirlene Ostrov sent a letter to Chief Daniel Hanagami, Special Agent, Office of the State Attorney General, who is investigating Honolulu’s Light Rail Project ....

...neighborhood boards will be able to reconvene public meetings starting on Monday, June 1....

...expanding the bulky item appointment-based collection system island-wide starting July 1, 2020....

...Mayor Caldwell provides guidelines for resuming in-person spiritual services....

... Sampling wastewater is experimental but can provide broad testing results to indicate COVID-19 prevalence ....

...to expand testing capacity to help put Oʻahu safely back to work....

...TMC Lab will collaborate with Community Health Centers across Oʻahu and provide capacity to perform up to 50,000 COVID-19 tests and 49,000 antibody tests through the end of 2020....

...starting Friday, May 15, outdoor sport fields and courts will be open for one-on-one sports or exercise with limitations, as well as drive-in services (e.g., spiritual/religious services) that follow specific guidelines....

...Small Business Relief and Recovery Fund using $25 million in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding....

"...This money will directly support the City’s current transit service operations, TheBus and TheHandi-Van...."

...Oahu and Maui Counties reopening partially....

...total job reductions between January and April in Honolulu county were 34% of full-time jobs and 41% of part-time. These numbers were much higher on Hawaii (50% and 67%), Maui (69% and 68%), and Kauai (56% and 62%)....

...Stormwater: $100M Tax Hike After 36 Years of Lawyering and Foot-dragging....

...Realtors and car dealers at the top of the list....

...Six police cars swoop in on Honolulu Mayoral candidate Choon James, Monday, April 27, 2020, as she attempts to video the destruction of Monkeypod trees being cut down during repaving of the Ala Moana/Magic Island parking lot....

...Today, Life of the Land filed a direct appeal to the Hawai'i Supreme Court regarding the Public Utilities Commission's decision to deny its motion to void approvals related to the Kahuku windmills project....