As Hawaii’s governor, David Ige faced a volcanic eruption, the COVID-19 pandemic and a false alert about an incoming ballistic missile. Ige looks back at his eight years in office, which are due to wrap up when Lt. Gov. Josh Green is inaugurated Dec. 5.
. This order effectively shuttered the state’s tourism industry, which is a key economic driver, but officials believe that it also slowed the spread of COVID-19.Kirk Caldwell, who was Honolulu’s mayor when the pandemic began, said that Ige was under “huge pressure” from people urging him to impose public health protections faster. Later, people pushed him to ease up as conditions improved.
Lawmakers stepped in on multiple occasions to take on roles that one would expect of the executive branch.to help the state process unemployment insurance claims pouring in during the pandemic. He also said that lawmakers worked with Honolulu hospitals to set up two COVID-19 mass vaccination clinics.There’s also the Thirty Meter Telescope project. The prolonged standoff over its construction on the summit of Mauna Kea, a place many Native Hawaiians consider sacred, deepened community divide.
“I’ve just seen a person that was willing to stand in the middle of a storm, wake up every single day and give it his all,” Kawakami said.
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