The mayor implies that Speaker Saiki’s letter regarding simultaneous execution of these projects was misleading to the public.

With Honolulu’s Rail project just recently bailed out by the state and the city's history of mismanaging it, Speaker Saiki thinks the city should focus on getting its flagship project under control before starting on new ones.

Zoning committee chair Anderson will introduce amendments that would kill most of the controversial proposed “Envision Laie” development on the rural northeast coast of Oʻahu.

A bill that would have given the state broader authority to preempt county ordinances it finds inconvenient, such as those restricting biotech, failed to find enough support to pass through the senate agriculture committee.