Honolulu officials have granted an exception to the state’s beach protections, clearing the way for a controversial multimillion-dollar renovation of a century-old seawall at a property owned by the chair of the Obama Foundation.
The three years of COVID-19 were difficult for everyone, the health-care sector among those facing the harshest stress test. But even within that sector, the pain was not felt uniformly.
The HMSA article about executive pay was a bull’s-eye (“HMSA execs saw big pandemic pay raises,” Star-Advertiser, April 30). I would like to commend journalist Sophie Cocke for her pursuit of facts and her outstanding reporting.
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