A state agency set up to foster diversified farming on fallow former plantation agriculture lands has lost its longtime leader, James “Jimmy” Nakatani, who died Sunday.
Perhaps it’s not so surprising that the Hawaii Supreme Court lawyers all would uphold the imperviousness of attorney-client privilege, when it sided this week with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs against the state auditor over sensitive OHA documents.
Correctional facilities across Hawaiʻi face staffing shortages and oftentimes, overpopulation. HPR’s Sabrina Bodon reports on the state’s audit into staffing, and how low staffing is being handled at Oʻahu Community Correctional Center.