
Dan Nakaso
Reporter at Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter who's back on island. Likes hot cars and cool guitars. Dog lover. House plant killer.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Dan Nakaso
Maui County Council members heard another full day of testimony Wednesday for and against a proposal to convert 6, 100 vacation rentals in Maui “apartment districts ” into long-term housing, but recessed with plans for a third and fourth hearing. Some 235 people signed up to testify before the Housing and Land Use Committee when it first met to consider Bill 9 on June 9 and another 69 testified Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
Maui County Council members heard another full day of testimony Wednesday for and against a proposal to convert 6,100 vacation rentals in Maui “apartment districts” into long-term housing, but recessed with plans for a third and fourth hearing. Some 235 people signed up to testify before the Housing and Land Use Committee when it first met to consider Bill 9 on June 9 and another 69 testified Wednesday.
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1 week ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
Isaac Choy, who remains on unpaid leave from the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority, has sued named and unnamed HTA officials alleging they retaliated against him for reporting what he called HTA procurement, spending and other violations.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Dan Nakaso
The city’s pop-up homeless triage operation has returned to Old Stadium Park in the McCully-Moiliili area of South King Street for the third time to provide temporary—and perhaps long-term—housing for a homeless population that grows when other enforcement occurs in nearby Diamond Head, Waikiki and Chinatown.
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2 weeks ago |
staradvertiser.com | Dan Nakaso
The city’s pop-up homeless triage operation has returned to Old Stadium Park in the McCully-Moiliili area of South King Street for the third time to provide temporary — and perhaps long-term — housing for a homeless population that grows when other enforcement occurs in nearby Diamond Head, Waikiki and Chinatown.
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Former Honolulu Police Department officer “Bobby” Minh-Hung Nguyen — the fourth and final co-conspirator in the Kealoha corruption case — was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison today followed by two years of supervised release today.

Former Honolulu Police Department Lt. Derek Wayne Hahn was sentenced to 42 months in prison followed by two years of spervised relase today in the Kealoha corruption case,

Kealoha will be free on bail until 2 pm April 12 because of COVID-19 concerns.