Entries for December 2017

...DOH has filed a report with the Legislature identifying 14 priority areas of the state where 43,000 cesspool upgrades are critically needed to protect public health and the environment....

...Tourists are attracted to places with well-known Rat Lungworm infestations.  it is a selling point.  Really....

...Tests by USDA Lab Show No Evidence of Diphacinone in Whale Livers....

...Crime and Inability to Join Military or Workforce Present National Crisis....

...FY 19 amendments total $85.5 million – an increase of .6 percent over FY 19...FY 19 amendments total $1.497 billion, an increase of 215 percent over FY 19 CIP....

• Senate: Grasz Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Willett Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Ho Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Mortgage Lender Escrow Requirement Exemption
• House: Iranian Asset Report Requirement
• House: Privacy Notice Requirement Exemption
• House: Iranian Aircraft Purchase Transactions

...How Tickets Forced 16 Homeless to accept Housing....

...share of sheltered homeless persons to number of volunteering hours per capita to share of income donated to charity....

...islanders to trade in “U.S. government handouts, which are scheduled to end in 2023, for the wide-open promise of Chinese-style capitalism....”

...looking to introduce legislation to combat predatory practices by game publishers. He called Star Wars: Battlefront II, an “online casino...."

...high visibility current and upcoming highways projects statewide....

...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin issued a formal advisory opinion today stating that when the shoreline migrates landward (or mauka) due to erosion or sea level rise, the dividing line between public and private ownership also migrates mauka....

...More than half of renters in Honolulu are spending more than a third of their income on rent each month, and 29 percent are spending more than 50 percent of their monthly income....

...The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation voted on in both the Senate and House of Representatives to produce average scores for each chamber as well as individual scores for each sitting member....

...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....

...The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative Nominating Committee has selected five candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....

...The case heard at Castle, CC vs. DD, is a parentage case involving a former same sex married couple. The issue is whether Appellant has a legal parent/child relationship with the child born to Appellee during the marriage....

...unforgivable acts of physical and emotional abuse committed against Kamehameha School students at the hands of Dr. Robert Browne, a St. Francis consulting psychiatrist between the years of 1962 through 1984....

...Hawaii's extremely modest creep up the ladder of economic freedom....

...Signed into law yesterday by the President, the enactment officially authorizes the strategic agreement signed between the United States and Palau governments in 2010....

...Online Tool Helps Users Pull Election Data for Specific State and Local Jurisdictions, Compare with Others....

...Chaos is Coming: You can sue too—Here are some ideas....

...The 2017 Economic Freedom of North America report helps explain why life is tough in the Aloha State....

...Working caregivers who pay for services to support their kupuna may now be eligible for financial help of up to $70 per day....

...High costs of living stretch Hawaii workers’ paychecks thin and leave them with far less disposable income than residents in other states, making it the worst state for student loan affordability....

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

... Bloomberg -- “Hurricanes or no hurricanes, this ridiculous policy needs a rethink” ....

... Hawaii is spending $6.6 million this year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 48.1 percent of the $13.7 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ....

...Robin Danner's Secret Blueprint....

...Honolulu is #1 for Homelessness, Pearl City is the 2nd-least needy city in USA....

...His appointment is effective January 1, 2018. He succeeds Thomas Matsuda who will retire on December 31, 2017....

...Cost of Care Report Shows No State Has Affordable Care Massachusetts, Utah, Oregon, Minnesota, New York, Washington, and Hawaii Top Nation's Unaffordability List for Infants and Toddlers....

...Weasel Words Allow Continued use of Fossil Fuels....

...deadline for applications is December 31, 2017....

...the Jones Act, Federal Regulation, politics in Washington, and other issues that impact Hawaii....

... In the past three years, violent crime increased 29% ....

...$4,540 a year in tax revenue per resident....

...Asian-Americans must score 140 points higher on their SATs than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than black students....

...Aging fuel storage tanks at Red Hill could soon get an upgrade....

...Top HTA Exec solicited thousands of dollars in travel perks from Hawaiian, JAL, Starwood, China Air, and others.... 

...government’s real job is to out of the way, not create more costly programs that don’t work....

...four alternatives proposed for the facility....

...The Hawaii State Department of Education and TransPar have saved the state approximately $13 million annually through the Get on Board student transportation initiative....

• Senate: Nielsen Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Balash Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
• House: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Request Conference
• House: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Between States
• House: Small Business Mergers Regulatory Exemption
• House: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations

...Sapolu has worked as a Deputy Prosecutor since 2011....

...global warming is just an excuse for tax hikes and rate hikes....

...Deadline for GIA applications is January 19, 2018....

...The requirements outlined in the Decision and Order include....

...Hawai‘i legalized payday lending in 1999 as a way to regulate the check cashing business.... 

...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness....