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Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! We respectfully disagree with the editorial board’s characterization that the 2021 Legislature made “small gains,” because it failed to assess the entire body of work the Legislature completed in just 100 days. When the Legislature convened on Jan. 20, Hawaii was still at the height of the pandemic. There were 108 new COVID cases per day and only 1% of Hawaii’s population was fully vaccinated.
Hawaii’s housing crisis is the abiding moral and economic challenge of our time — home prices are increasing faster than incomes. The number of people confronting housing insecurity is on the rise. April Estrellon/Civil Beat But we don’t need to look at the numbers to understand how rapidly the situation is deteriorating. All we have to do is talk to our family, friends, and neighbors. Some are sharing their homes with other families to cut housing costs.
The Thirty Meter Telescope proceedings are rapidly headed in a downward spiral, but there is an opportunity to correct this situation. In May 2016, the Legislature approved a new law, House Bill 1581, that authorizes a court to appoint a master when it remands a case to an agency for the purpose of conducting a contested case hearing. A master usually is an attorney or a retired judge who serves as an arm of the judge.
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