About the Ledger

The Hawaiʻi Ledger is a public-records site for Hawaiʻi. It keeps the civic record in one place, organized by the areas people actually live in: Oʻahu's 33 neighborhood board areas, Maui County's community plan areas, Hawaiʻi Island's nine districts and Kauaʻi's six planning districts, with the state boards that decide across them. Every item is linked to the government's own document.

Who publishes it

Published by Chris Weaver, who lived on Oʻahu for eight years, in ʻEwa, Hawaiʻi Kai and Ward Village, and also publishes The Aledo Ledger and The Weatherford Ledger in Texas. He runs the Ledger alone. It has no partners and no outside owners.

What it is not

It is not a newsroom and does not compete with one. Oʻahu has reporters; read them. Honolulu Civil Beat, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaii News Now, KHON2, KITV, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, Pacific Business News and others cover what happened and why. The Ledger keeps the documents findable and links out generously.

How it is made

Scripts read public sources and copy what they find; they do not write. Each page names its source and the date it was read. Where a government system refuses automated access, the Ledger does not crawl it. See Sources and Standards.

How it is paid for

A subscription wire for people who work in land use, referrals where the law allows them, and sponsors beside the free area digests. Sponsors buy adjacency, never content. No candidate for office can buy anything. The reader list is never sold or shared.