In the course of a more than hourlong interview, Hanabusa often referred to growing up in Waianae, on the east coast of Oahu, where her parents, Isao and June, ran a gas station. Growing up in ...

Hanabusa also vowed to break the Oahu-centric rule of state government and better serve the Neighbor Islands. She noted that even her rural hometown of Waianae, Oahu, can be left out of the ...