In my last column I argued that in Hawaiʻi incompetence is a bigger problem than corruption.
Ironically, Hawaiʻi’s current corruption investigation itself proves my point. It has been incompetent from the get-go since, well, we don’t know when because the date it started, or resumed, or stopped, or whatever, still is a mystery.
Hawaiʻi’s attorney general Anne Lopez recently announced that the investigation into the unidentified legislator who in 2022 was recorded accepting $35,000 in a paper bag, according to the FBI, is moving forward. So maybe, just maybe, the train is back on track…