by Joe Kent | Nov 29, 2018 | Government Waste, Op-Eds
This article was originally published in The Maui News on Thursday, Nov. 29. Maui County Council members this month voted to “go vertical” and move forward on financing a proposed $81.2 million Wailuku Civic Complex, but policymakers would be wise to focus less on the...
by Keli'i Akina, Ph.D. | Nov 29, 2018 | Op-Eds, Pension & Debt
This article was originally published in The Garden Island on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. Soaring public pension and health benefit costs will be slamming Hawaii’s county governments in coming years, forcing them to consider cutting important government services or...