Ethics & Accountability 02.26.2015 Proposed $500,000 Vanpool Grant the Latest ‘FrankenBill’ News story on how Senate Bill 128 was modified from promoting bicycle safety to now include providing $500,000 for the Vanpool program, turning it into a "FrankenBill". Read more >
Ethics & Accountability 02.5.2015 Hawaii’s Sunshine Law Is Getting Cloudy As Lawmakers Debate Opinion piece by Brian Black of The Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest. Discusses the importance of sunshine laws and current legislation. Read more >
Voting & Elections 12.11.2014 Reform can open electoral process Star Advertiser editorial on work being done to fix the issue of campaign finance. Read more >
Voting & Elections 11.21.2014 Panel On Clean Elections Nov. 20 at UH-Hilo Preview on the panel discussion on clean elections at UH-Hilo. Read more >
Voting & Elections 11.17.2014 $7.9M raised to fight Maui GMO ballot initiative News story about the record breaking amount of money spent on the Maui county GMO ballot initiative. Read more >
Voting & Elections 11.17.2014 Denby Fawcett: Voters Didn’t Show Up Because the Election Was Boring Opinion piece on why Hawaii's voter turnout was so low for the 2014 election. Read more >