Entries for 'Andrew Walden'

What is missing on the conservative side is leadership....

Tom Lodge of the Hawaii Hunting Association is providing a list of hunting-related bills....

Will the trio of English, Keith-Agaran, and Shimabukuro be able to carry OHA's ball now that it has been dropped by Galuteria, Hee, and Solomon?

If the Legislature fails to grant MMMC permission to negotiate a partnership agreement with HPH and MMMC goes bankrupt, this interview will be the smoking gun....

Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....

In total, Crabbe's memo budgets $2,598,546 for "Consortium" and another $407,332 for the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission.  None of this is mentioned in HB209....

...it's been at least a decade since I or any agent or broker prepared a time line or ordered a condo doc....

...current admin budgeting format and procedures create an open checkbook under various program areas....

All of the problems sister isle medical patients face trace back to Randy Perreira's need to keep his pathetic little union presidency job....

Setting the stage as the executives walked in, the Hawaiian flag flew upside down outside HHSC's Leahi Hospital....

Without the six-month extension, Medicaid providers in Hawaii would have suffered a 48 percent pay cut....

After Apoliona's alleged cronies were allegedly finished, one of OHA CEO Kamanao Crabbe's cronies allegedly took a turn....

There are at least two class action suits filed against the HEI-NextEra merger....

UPDATE Dec 31: Rep Beth Fukumoto Chang has been elected Minority Leader and Rep Andria Tupola has been elected Floor Leader....

The balancing of million-dollar mortgages on inverse absolutes--paradise and illegality--produces a hyper-sensitive fear-and-hate-inspired psychology....

...Dr. George J. Petruncio described the cuts as a “bait and switch” move....

"...Defendants, pursuant to Hawaii law, selected this appointee through a process that ignores the Seventeenth Amendment...."

"Lindsey’s request for censorship is denied."

For over a year, Hawaiian Electric has been claiming that the "green infrastructure fee" now beginning to appear on electric bills statewide is not a rate hike....

Does this mean the Ige administration will break from the HSTA and propose a publicly funded voucher program so we can all give taxpayer money to private schools?

Two new House Republicans elected.  Anti-GMO initiative wins on Maui ....

A $150M Hawaii subprime lending scheme is receiving an “AAA-“ rating from Fitch because repayment is guaranteed by a surcharge on your electric bill....

PLDC and Kakaako Makai were just a warmup exercise....

If approved, this would be the largest rate hike in recent HMSA history....

...Coburn's newly released “2014 Wastebook” has only one sad and lonely reference to federal spending on “silly, unnecessary, and low priority projects” in Hawaii....

Maui Weekly competed with Maui Time which continues to publish an independent bi-weekly print newspaper on Maui....

...it almost worked, until Goldman Sachs taught them all the meaning of "preferred stock"....

"...The State Ethics Code does not prohibit legislators from introducing or voting on legislation...that affects their non-state employment interests...."

...Galuteria landed a lucrative position as "Director, Community and Civic Engagement" with the Pelatron Center for Economic Development headed by OHA Trustee Robert K. Lindsey, Jr....

Seabright's order enjoins against Hawaii's current ban on resident aliens owning firearms....

Cult members laboring for the Imam under "Tuzuk contracts" are obligated to kick back all of their salaries beyond a bare minimum needed to survive....

Ige, Chun-Oakland, and Fukunaga were the three bitter-enders holding out for the full $791M in GE Tax hikes....

Even weeks after angry kupuna and union members began crowding committee hearings to protest, Takai voted 'aye' for the pension tax bill HB1092 HD1....

...find your state representative and determine how he or she voted every time the pension tax was up...

...Online registration is available and will remain open until a few weeks prior the election....

...Waihe‘e also contracted Dennis Dwyer for a total of $1.3 million dollars to be Kana‘iolowalu’s federal lobbyist....

The following letter has been sent out to all HHSC employees....

"I'm not convinced, especially with what happened with the Department of Interior hearings, that there is consensus...."

David Ige may have been afraid of the video, but hundreds of other people weren’t as a standing-room only lunchtime crowd packed the downtown Honolulu Pacific Club for today's Grassroot Institute gubernatorial forum....

...With Puna voting completed and 800 mail-in absentee votes 'found' on Maui....

On Kauai, pro-GMO mayor Bernard Carvalho crushed anti-GMO candidate Dustin Barca, leader of the so-called "Kauai Rising" protests....

...With Abercrombie out of the picture, education reform advocates can reinterpret the rules for vouchers to open the door to church preschools....

"You have mentioned this frequently as a reason for loss of confidence in me from you and the Board."

...Ige over Abercrombie 49-39% and Schatz over Hanabusa 45-34%....

With two counts, the total federal incarceration for OHA Trustees could add up to 10 years....

"Witnesses say that the suspect ran from the police earlier that day, for allegedly not having license plates or a driver’s license...."

One thing is certain ... the “organic governing documents” don’t need to be approved by a majority vote....