Good evening, Hawaii. Here are the main stories we’ve been following today:
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Moderate to locally breezy trades will stick around through next weekend. A disturbance will bring some passing showers tonight into tomorrow, but stable conditions return by late Tuesday through the end of the week. Wet weather could return again this weekend.
1. Honolulu Civil Beat: Hawaiʻi braces for cuts that could strip Medicaid from tens of thousands
Donald Calano, his mother and son beside him, sat in his wheelchair in the cramped eligibility office at the Kalihi-Pālama Health Center’s clinic on North King Street. On the desk before them was a pile of paperwork to enroll him in Medicaid.
They had been among the first patients in the Honolulu waiting room, with a portrait of Queen Emma, a long mural illustrating the center’s 50-year history, and a television playing health care messages in languages ranging from Vietnamese to Tagalog…