Hawaii History

...The majority’s interpretation embraces the view that the legislature has authorized payment for fraud, collusion, embezzlement, and bad faith dealings....

...the first full bilingual Hawaiian-English Bible with modern diacritical markings....

...November 11, 2018 - Free to the Public Concerts, Films, Celebratory Service, Flyovers and Fireworks....

...Sovereignty flows from the will of the people.  The people’s will is statehood.  But the teacher’s union is pushing the rhetoric of an internationally-known anti-Semite to change your child's mind....

...Hero of Holocaust Deniers, Alfred De Zayas....

...if the last convention was so great, why won’t the next one also be great?....

...another provision that was passed by the 1978 Constitutional Convention to assure our fiscal health—and what our lawmakers have done to marginalize it....

...The saga of this credit tells us a little about a bold move undertaken in the 1978 Constitutional Convention and our lawmakers’ reaction....

...Reid said that she personally brought information about the harassment to Hirono....

...For Democrats, it’s always “Believe Women,” unless....

...Senator Mazie Hirono today poses as a brave feminist cultural warrior, but when it really counted in her own backyard in Hawaii, she was AWOL....

...in 1969 the only places in America where housing cost more than three times incomes were Hawaii and Stamford, Connecticut. I don’t know why Stamford was on the list, but Hawaii had passed legislation strictly regulating where people could build homes in 1961....

...Will Justice Brett Kavanaugh become the ‘critical’ 8th vote against racially discriminatory OHA elections?  Could Kavanaugh become the ‘decisive’ 10th vote against the Hawaii Supreme Court’s Ceded Lands Decision.  Or maybe Hirono is afraid Kavanaugh will be the fifth vote against Nai Aupuni....

...42 short essays on the history, democratic function, and politics of the periodic state constitutional convention referendum, including Hawaii’s November 6, 2018 convention referendum....

...In 1999 Kavanaugh helped write a friend-of-the-court brief in the Rice v Cayetano case....

...The true story of the January 13, 2018 Hawaii missile alert, told by the people who lived it....

...NHK WORLD-JAPAN and PBS Hawai‘i Bring Documentary on Heroic WWII Japanese-American Regiment to Screening Attendees and Viewers....

...After the 1960 Tsunami, homeowners in the destroyed Shinmachi area of Hilo bayfront were given fee-simple lots on newly subdivided state land in Waiakea Uka.  Shinmachi is now the site of the Hilo Bayfront Park....

...basic questions that will elucidate the nature of the institution....

...The Court’s 1997 ruling on the majority required to call a state constitutional convention was a travesty of justice....

...the 34th anniversary of the SCOTUS oral arguments in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....

...This report found that through the course of the past ten years, the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan was disregarded....

...Hawaii is in the North Pacific, not the North Atlantic....

...A tentative settlement between Kamehameha Schools and the survivors of Dr. Browne’s abuse has been reached....

...Freddy Called Himself Hawaiian & Had Reasons For Suing To Vote In OHA Elections That Were Unlike What You May Have Heard....

...The main thing is that we all ‘E Hana Kākou,’ that is, work together to build a bright future for Hawaiians and all people.”....

...He was also inspired by our “Aloha Spirit” after his first visit to Hawaii in 1959....

...This stereotype is clearly not the true picture....

...On January 15, 1998, Hawaii Family Forum was incorporated....

...Hawaii Island rancher Freddy Rice passed away on Jan. 5, 2018....

...“What you’ve got to do is get one of these kids to run for office,” Butler said....

...The event is free and open to the public....

...after she was deposed, and after Hawaii became a U.S. territory, the former queen sued the United States in what was then the U.S. Claims Court....

Thanks to support from University of Hawaii Press and Kamehameha Schools, the public now has free access to the bestselling book Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust....

...The library recently finished cataloging and digitizing 1,400 boxes of materials it received in 2014. ...

...it has not been easy going for Saleem Ahmed....

...on August 21, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state....

The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....

On April 21, 1898, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with the United States....

...Democrats from southern states expressed concern over incorporating Hawaii’s predominantly non-white population into the Union....

... but, but, but--How can we make the humans feel guilty now? ....

On the trail to Hawaii Islam Day: Saudi money, Libyan assassins, Palestinian Jihad, London bombers, Malaysian sodomy, and laughing Islamists....

SNP MP Alison Thewliss has written to the US Governor, David Ige, pleading that authorities in Honolulu don’t sink or destroy the Falls of Clyde ship....

...the OR&L ROW, a 40-foot wide stretch from Central Waipahu to Piliokahe Gulch in Nanakuli, owned by HDOT....

People get viscerally upset when you tell them they need to follow a rule they didn't know and couldn't have known....

...Getting astray on hobby activism that really doesn’t solve an issue won’t guide a people forward....

There were two important tasks that drew on ancient Hawaiians’ understanding of space and time....

"...Full integration into U.S. society and economy generally takes more than one generation...."

...I am proud that Hawaii is a state of the union....

...researchers claim that much of the collection is inaccessible....