The committee voted to gut a criminal justice reform bill and replace it with a bill looking at hurricane-resistant school structures with no input from advocates or the community.

Reps. Ito and Tokioka just lost their leadership positions on the House veterans committee, and it might have been because of a planned coup to overthrow House leadership.

Within today's House committee chair shuffle lies the very real potential for an impending leadership shakeup.

While the State Senate has become more progressive, this is yet another example of the State House moving in the opposite direction.