The 2020 Sour Poi Awards Present: The Day That Never Ends
Tales of weird, wacky and wild news you may have missed. The best of the worst of 2020.
January 29, 2021
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onsider 2020. Someday we may look back on the year as a long, strange trip that ultimately brought us something positive. But not yet! It’s too soon to come to terms with a year that feels like a mix of Groundhog Day and a vintage horror movie we would call The Day That Never Ends. First came hoarding of rice, Spam, toilet paper, then shortages of yeast, hand weights, potting soil, even kiddie pools. Our lives reeled with pandemic lockdowns, distance learning and an ever-shifting new normal, bookended by doom-scrolling on phones and endless Zoom meetings. So, in keeping with the off-kilter nature of a calendar year we’re happy to close, we present the latest edition of HONOLULU Magazine’s Sour Poi Awards. Here, we focus on news that’s sure to make us roll our eyes. Yes, we obsessed over COVID-19, but governmen
Former no. 2 under Caldwell is working at Council to get taxpayer-funded benefits
Former managing director under Caldwell is working at City Council to get taxpayer-funded benefits By Lynn Kawano | January 26, 2021 at 6:04 PM HST - Updated January 26 at 7:53 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Roy Amemiya, who served as managing director in the Caldwell administration, is back at Honolulu Hale as a staffer for new Councilman Calvin Say.
Say described Amemiyaâs position as a legislative liaison and said itâs a temporary position, lasting between six months and a year.
He told HNN that Amemiya just wanted the job long enough to hit 10 years of city service. That milestone comes with 50% taxpayer-funded medical benefits for the rest of his life, among other credits.
Parade of former, current council members subpoenaed to testify in federal probe
Parade of former, current council members subpoenaed to testify in federal probe By Lynn Kawano | January 22, 2021 at 5:28 PM HST - Updated January 22 at 6:36 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - More officials currently or previously tied to Honolulu Hale are being called to testify in connection with a federal probe stemming from the Kealoha scandal.
Former City Council members Ernie Martin and Trevor Ozawa arrived for federal grand jury proceedings Thursday along with current City Councilman Brandon Elefante.
Both Elefante and Martin declined to comment about their appearance. Hawaii News Now sent an email to Ozawa but did not hear back.