Wednesday marks the 20th anniversary of a Halloween Eve flash flood that sent a tsunami of mud, water and debris up to 8 feet high roaring through the University of Hawaii Manoa campus, damaging 30 buildings and tossing dumpsters.
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Gov. Josh Green ranks in the top 10 in approval ratings compared with the rest of America’s governors, according to separate surveys reported this month.
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CORE teams began their outreach in December 2021 by working with homeless people in downtown, Chinatown and Waikiki before expanding less frequently throughout the island.
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The approximately 80 official observers are part of the overall contingent of 320 “counting center officials” who have volunteered for various jobs on Oahu this election year.
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Much of the input focused on the need to increase affordable housing on an island that already needed more housing long before the fires destroyed nearly 3,000 structures.
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Hensel acknowledged the disappointment among some that no local candidate made it as a finalist and vowed she will take the helm of UH with a “heart open wide.”
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If she accepts, Hensel will take over the 10-campus system following the December retirement of current President David Lassner.
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Each of the finalists later arrived separately and out of sight to talk to the regents after the public was dismissed from UH-Manoa’s Bachman Hall.
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Some of the testimony — both in writing and in person — urged the 11 regents to start their search over, while others objected that the appointment of an interim president in the meantime would delay efforts and progress at UH.
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In September and earlier this month, the candidates met separately with hundreds of people across four islands who wanted to hear how their backgrounds and experiences on the mainland will help lead UH.
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Allegations of discrimination surrounding the performance evaluation of a Georgia State University professor in 2020 while Wendy Hensel was interim provost have surfaced as she vies to become the University of Hawaii’s next president.
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Voters overwhelmingly prefer the convenience of voting by mail.
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The Nov. 5 election ballots will ask voters a one-sentence question: “Shall the state constitution be amended to repeal the legislature’s authority to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples?”
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Only 32.3% of registered voters bothered to cast ballots in the Aug. 10 party primary election.
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Gov. Josh Green plans to propose an additional $30 million to help the next group of health care workers pay off their loans over the subsequent two years.
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Throughout his 45 years in newspaper journalism, Hurley never wanted to be the center of a story and had a reputation for remaining calm while reporting and writing complex stories.
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Voters in Royal Kunia-Waipahu-Honouliuli — part of a West Oahu area that’s been increasingly turning politically red — will have a clear choice between a traditional union-backed Democrat and an incumbent, evangelical Christian Republican whose views are sometimes so extreme that he was condemned by a West side Republican senator.
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Voters in Kailua and a portion of Kaneohe will pick someone new to represent them in the state House of Representatives on Nov. 5, choosing between a Democrat and a Republican who disagree whether Kailua has become more progressive or more conservative after decades of reelecting moderate Republican Rep. Cynthia Thielen.
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Republican state Sen. Brenton Awa, 38, faces his first reelection contest on Nov. 5 against a fellow Native Hawaiian who’s a generation older, 65-year-old Democrat Ben Shafer, to represent a vast and diverse district.
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An internal rule change at the state Department of Human Services will mean 13,000 to 14,000 Hawaii households will be eligible for another $40 million to $45 million — or an average of $3,200 a year — in SNAP benefits, commonly known as food stamps.
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For the past decade, Lassner has led a 10-campus system that touches Hawaii and its residents in ways unlike any other state department or agency.
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