Richard Wiens
Honolulu Civil Beat
Honolulu, HI, United States
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Past articles by Richard:
Why Does Just One Person Get To Decide Important Issues Like Term Limits?
A ‘compromise’ proposal months in the making gets swept away without even a committee vote. → Read More
Candidate Q&A: Office of Hawaiian Affairs At-Large Trustee — John Waihe‘e IV
"I think that the money OHA has distributed through our grants and low-interest loan programs has substantially contributed to improving the lives of Native Hawaiians." → Read More
Candidate Q&A: Kauai County Council — Rosemarie Jauch
"Deep beneath the waves there's a source of power quite unlike any other." → Read More
Slicing And Dicing Civil Beat’s Salary Database
How to explore the plethora of information about thousands of public employees. → Read More
UH Releases Pay Levels For Hundreds Of Graduate Assistants, Lecturers
Most of them are at the Manoa campus, working up to 20 hours per week and also receiving tuition waivers. → Read More
Some Principals Can Still Earn More Than Top DOE Officials
Civil Beat's public employee salary database now includes 22,395 employees of the Hawaii Department of Education. → Read More
Neighbor Islands: Harry Kim Now The Highest-Paid Mayor
Maui County has the most employees, but Hawaii County has generally caught up in the salaries paid to top executives. → Read More
Pay Hikes For Water Board Engineers Outpace Other City Officials
And check out what we're paying Honolulu City Council members and other employees of the city's legislative branch. → Read More
Hawaii's 129 Judges Are The Top Paid Judiciary Employees
They're getting smaller raises these days, which concerns the chief justice who says qualified judges are hard to find. → Read More
Doctors Are Still The Top-Paid Public Employees In Hawaii
The Hawaii Health Services Corp. and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs have big changes atop their pay scales, but the highest-salaried physician hasn't changed. → Read More
Two Deans And A Football Coach Are Top Paid Employees At UH
Civil Beat's salary database just added 7,424 statewide employees of the University of Hawaii system. At least 1,639 make six-figure salaries. → Read More
The Fattest Paychecks In Hawaii Government Don't Always Go To The…
More than 14,000 state employees have been added to Civil Beat’s salary database, including many who earn more than the governor. → Read More
Some Six-Figure Salaries At The State's Watchdog Agencies
At look at the payrolls of the State Auditor's Office, Ethics Commission and Ombudsman's Office → Read More
Hawaii Legislature's Top-Paid Officials Never Run For Office
The latest installment of Civil Beat's public salary database includes employees of the Senate, House and Legislative Reference Bureau. → Read More
Hawaii Salary Database 2020: We're Kicking Off This Year's Report With HPD
A legal challenge by the police union held up release of officers' names for years but a recent court ruling found disclosure is required under public records law. → Read More
Names, Ranks And Salaries Of Honolulu Cops Are Still Secret
Legal challenges from Hawaii's police union have prevented the public release of the identities of almost 2,000 sworn officers. → Read More
ConCon Is Gone Gone — Voters Reject State Constitutional Convention
It was a once-a-decade chance for the public to go over the heads of the Legislature, but the measure was opposed by public employee unions. → Read More
Questions About The ConCon? We've Got Your Answers
Once a decade there's a twist to Hawaii's general election -- a vote on whether to hold a constitutional convention. Here's what voters need to know. → Read More
Our Salary Database Now Includes Hundreds Of Hawaii County Employees
With the inclusion of Big Island data first requested in July 2017, only Honolulu police officers are still missing. A judge's ruling is pending on that. → Read More
Tropical Storm Warning Issued For Oahu
UPDATED: Warnings are also in effect for Maui County and the Big Island, and a storm watch is now in effect for Kauai. → Read More