Kim Gamel

3 weeks ago | civilbeat.org | Anita Hofschneider |Kim Gamel

The chaos is part of a broader pattern of the Trump administration to act quickly regardless of legality and reverse policies when needed. This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s Weekly newsletter here. When Native Hawaiian combat veteran Joseph Guzman-Simpliciano got back home to Hawaiʻi from Afghanistan and Iraq, he was shocked at how the burnt-out, abandoned cars lying by the side of the road on the west side of Oʻahu reminded him of the war zone he had just left.

1 month ago | civilbeat.org | Mary Nichols |Kim Gamel

In recent years, the real progress has been outside the rooms where the high-level official U.N. negotiations are held. When the annual U.N. climate conference descends on the small Brazilian rainforest city of Belém in November 2025, it will be tempting to focus on the drama and disunity among major nations. Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the 2025 deadline required under the Paris Agreement.

1 month ago | civilbeat.org | Ian Lind |Kim Gamel

The mother of convicted racketeering boss Mike Miske, who died last year, had been seeking guardianship of his granddaughter. Editor’s note: This column is being reprinted from his blog, iLind.net, with the author’s permission. There has been a low-key kerfuffle over a motion filed on behalf of the late Mike Miske’s mother in the government’s civil foreclosure lawsuit that seeks to seize all of Miske’s property because it was derived from or used to carry out his racketeering activities.

1 month ago | civilbeat.org | Kim Gamel

Cities, insurers, and the public used the Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database to plan for the future. Now what will they do? This story by Katie Myers and Matt Simon was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Nearly 30 billion-dollar storms rocked the United States last year.

1 month ago | civilbeat.org | Kim Gamel

Hawaiʻi could have lost more than $89 million for critical community health programs, the Attorney General’s Office said. Hawaiʻi notched a victory in its legal battles against President Donald Trump’s administration with a federal judge ruling that blocks the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from terminating $11 billion in funding.