By Jim Dooley – Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU — Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro today continued his lonely objections to aspects of Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s plan to amend Hawaii’s criminal justice in ways that would release more convicted felons from prisons and jails.

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OAHU – The Honolulu Area Rapid Transit Authority, the entity that oversees the construction and management of the city’s proposed $5.3 billion elevated steel on steel rail system, has launched a series of radio advertisements promoting the project and directing the public to check out the HART web site for traffic updates.

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HONOLULU – Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s policy team has implemented a new “Testimony Tracking System” to “find potential conflicts between different agencies sooner rather than later” when it comes to submitting testimony to lawmakers.
Agency directors and staff are given their own log in into the system, which is officially called the “Office of the Governor [...]

By Jim Dooley & Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter
HONOLULU – Police made a prostitution arrest in May 2007 inside the Waikiki apartment of University of Hawaii Professor Lawrence W. Boyd Jr., where an X-rated escort service called The Volcano Girls was in operation as recently as last week.

BY JIM DOOLEY AND MALIA ZIMMERMAN

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An X-rated local escort service called “The Volcano Girls” is being operated out of the Waikiki residence of University of Hawaii Professor Lawrence W. Boyd, Jr., a Hawaii Reporterinvestigation shows.