HawaiiReporter.com
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HawaiiReporter.com is a Hawaii-based online news and opinion magazine. Its viewpoint is usually free-market, although HawaiiReporter.com prints all editorials submitted so long as they are clear. In 2004, during a contentious race between Mufi Hannemann and Duke Bainum for Honolulu mayor, HawaiiReporter.com was the only media to report on a court case in which Bainum's wife, Jennifer Alonso Toma, was accused of financially taking advantage of an elderly client named Masumi Murasaki when she was his caregiver. Bainum ultimately lost the race to Hannemann. [1].
HawaiiReporter.com was founded in November 2002 by Malia Zimmerman and Jay McWilliams, both who have served as reporters and editors for many publications in Hawaii. Focusing on government and politics, business, and education, HawaiiReporter.com also collects and researches 20 kinds of public records and has contributed to a number of books published in the United States and Japan on these issues.
A co-founder of the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a free-market think tank, Zimmerman has hosted an ongoing debate in HawaiiReporter.com on the Hawaiian sovereignty movement publishing opinion pieces both critical and favorable to the Akaka Bill. The bill ultimately failed to pass the U.S. Senate in June 2006 when proponents could not gather enough votes to force a cloture vote - in part because the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the U.S. Justice Department said the bill was unconstitutional and racially divisive and therefore should not be passed.
