Earlier this month, In Defense of Animals, a non-profit animal welfare organization, ranked the Honolulu Zoo third-worst in the nation for elephants. “Everything about the zoo’s antiquated elephant exhibit is wrong,” the organization posted on its Web site. “It crams… [»Read]
Regular readers know City Watch as an occasional segment in which we take a look at things around town that are broken (a rotting picnic table, a leaky water pipe, an unmarked trailhead), find out why they haven’t been fixed and let readers know who’s responsible. And… [»Read]
Honolulu Police have a bit of a reputation for traveling in packs. Anyone who’s ever been pulled over for speeding knows this, as do those of us who find ourselves around Fort Street Mall at breakfast time. So we got to thinking, what about off-hours assignments? You… [»Read]
Kapiolani Park is one of our best-used resources on Oahu. But some areas of the sprawling green are a little worse for wear, including nearly a dozen picnic tables, which (as anyone who’s gotten bug-bitten from lying in the grass can tell you) are a necessity for… [»Read]
A reader recently contacted City Watch inquiring about the situation at the McCully swimming pool. “It’s been like five years already since it closed,” she said. Almost. The pool was closed for straightforward renovations in June 2005. Like many other municipal pool… [»Read]
A reader recently contacted Honolulu Weekly about what he said were missing water fountains at the Waikiki Shell. Without them, he wondered, what option did visitors have but to purchase bottled water–at steep prices– from concessionaires? We checked with City Enterprise… [»Read]
Welcome to CityWatch, a new occasional feature designed to help hold public officials accountable for fixing things that aren’t working around Oahu–and to give them credit when they do. Here’s how it works: You let us know when you see something that’s not working…. [»Read]
