To be effective and competent at the Legislature, legislators and their staff need time to gather knowledge, analyze it, ...

There’s also the fact that Hawaiʻi is the only Western state that doesn’t allow statewide citizens initiatives, in which ...

We're paying a steep price for trying to jam too many people into a limited space that once allowed us to flourish.

A number of accountability bills have sailed through legislative committee hearings. Others could use some last-minute public support.

Will Caron is director of communications at the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, a policy research and ...

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