Nothing is more a part of good government than the local School Boards.  Because of Hawaii’s century old habit of centralization, the once statewide elected School Board was changed, by vote, to that of a Governor appointed one. How sad, not only because the issues of a elected School Board […]

The City and County of Honolulu encompasses all of Oahu making the Mayor and the nine members of the City Council the sole arbitrators for municipalities as divergent as Downtown Honolulu is from rural Kahuku. The City and County of Honolulu structure was established by Charter in 1907 when Oahu […]