Ferocious hurricanes. Raging wildfires. Rising seas and coastal flooding. As we in Hawai‘i and other parts of the world can attest, climate change is real. To highlight how states can ...
Read More Hawai’i joins other Climate Week leaders at summit
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Mention state government, and cynics see only bureaucracy. But Gov. David Ige sees the future. He has challenged state departments to modernize, innovate and make government work better for all ...
Read More From the governor: Delivering on promises for the future
No issue has galvanized the community more than homelessness — with the governor’s homelessness coordinator Scott Morishige and his team leading the charge. For the first time in eight years, ...
Read More Progress on homelessness: First statewide decrease in 8 years
To meet the governor’s goal of 10,000 new housing units statewide by 2020, the state’s housing agencies are working with the counties and home builders to streamline processes and improve ...
Read More More housing for middle-income families
DLIR’s Three Amigos: Streamlined workers’ comp They’ve been dubbed “The Three Amigos” by their co-workers at the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations — three millennials hired as office assistants ...
Read More State MVPs move governor’s priorities forward
It’s not often a state agency completely changes the way it does things. Yet that’s what has happened, thanks to manager Peter Oshiro and his team of inspectors in the ...
Read More DOH transparency equals food safety
Local girl Leah Laramee said her career goal used to be to work in global conservation for the United Nations. But when she came home from college, she recalls, “I ...
Read More More MVPs: A Sustainable Hawai`i dream team
It’s rare that a whole community has the chance to weigh in at the start of a complex planning process. But that was the governor’s goal for the Kalihi 21st ...
Read More Kalihi 21st century: A community’s vision for transformation
I’m elated that legislators have come to an agreement that will move the rail project forward. I’m particularly pleased that the state will have increased oversight for this project, and ...
Read More Governor’s statement on rail funding bill
It’s a new era in many ways for Hawai‘i’s public schools: a new superintendent, a new four-year teachers’ contract and a new school year with cooler classrooms on several islands. ...
Read More From the governor: Launching a new era for Hawai‘i schools