Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi almost never sounds desperate on his cheerful Wednesday podcasts.
But last week he pleaded with his listeners: “Let’s knock it off. I am begging you. Please don’t kill yourself. Don’t kill somebody else. Be responsible.”
The mayor was angushing about traffic deaths on Oʻahu, which have doubled to 44 this year compared with 22 during the same period last year…