Blangiardi in a sentence

While the Blangiardi campaign focused on promoting Blangiardi as a decisive leader who had the experience to do the job of mayor, Amemiya took a different approach.

Blangiardi dismissed the idea that he’s falling behind any fundraising goal, saying he has more cash on hand now than he had a year before he was first elected mayor.

However, the city’s public safety push resonates well with other Waikiki stakeholders, who approve Blangiardi’s “enough is enough” approach.

Joining Mayor Roth were Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Maui Mayor Richard Bissen, and Kauai Managing Director Mike Dahilig on behalf of Mayor Derek Kawakami.

And as Blangiardi said at the news conference announcing the North Shore location: “If there was a path that the whole island supported, then that is the path we would have chosen.

Blangiardi was in Washington this week with a group of mayors hoping to get more assistance for addressing the pressing social issue.

But concerns about liability and trespassing caused Mayor Rick Blangiardi to begin the process of removing the stairs in 2021.

Facing no serious opposition, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi was handily reelected in the primary election Saturday, garnering 78% of the vote, results released Sunday morning show.

HBL has over the past five months visited the crash site with state Department of Transportation Director Ed Sniffen, met with Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi and participated in an HPD traffic investigation briefing.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi and the Wahi Pana project team Monday announced the launch of a public art initiative that will showcase the history and culture of Oahu’s landmarks.

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi, running for reelection in November, was among them, seeing the five-day visit as an opportunity to flag an issue that he called a source of persistent concern and unease to his constituents.

If ball-playing Blangiardi was tough at the line of scrimmage, it was nothing compared to his performance first in business as a national and local broadcast executive, and then in Hawaii politics.

In 2023, the city says, Mayor Rick Blangiardi and city Managing Director Michael Formby engaged in discussions with the U.S. military to gain assistance in siting a new landfill on Oahu.

In that statement, Blangiardi cited both Act 73 and another barrier to landfill siting: the preference by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) that no landfill be located in its “no-pass zone” over the Oahu aquifer areas.

Mayor Rick Blangiardi then told in a memo to cooperate with the investigation into Kahikina’s treatment and also called for the board to offer her a multiyear contract.

On homelessness, Blangiardi said that his approach is not just to take people off the street but also to treat them through a new program called Crisis Outreach Response and Engagement, or C.O.R.E., and through respite centers like Leahi Health Center.

Since 2021, Blangiardi and the City Council have favored a plan to permanently remove the structure that over the years has switched ownership between the Coast Guard, the Board of Water Supply and ultimately the city.

Tamayo Perry, 49, was an “eight-year veteran of Honolulu Ocean Safety and well-known North Shore waterman,” Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi said in a statement.

That plan didn’t hold — and last week Rick Blangiardi, the current mayor, doubled down on his decision to remove the metal access to the top of the Koolau peak.

This initiative squares closely with the mayor’s oft-pledged support for an invigorated Downtown and Chinatown, and Blangiardi should work with the Council and city departments to get this done.