Entries for 'Malia Zimmerman'

...a new report from the Hawaii Commerce and Consumer Affairs Department shows the Connector won’t be fiscally sustainable until 2022....

State land records show the couple illegally built two bed and breakfast units and operated the lucrative business for more than a decade in a conservation district in Hanalei....

...HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president’s 16-day vacation. That’s $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012....

Comey said he is concerned that in the wake of Snowden’s “so called revelations,” Americans “healthy skepticism” of government powers will turn to cynicism....

The study did note three positives: a low corporate capital gains tax; low property taxes and low wireless taxes....

Montreal-based CGI Group Inc. will be awarded another year-long state maintenance contract despite the ongoing problems with the site....

The attack on Sony Pictures and threats to the movie industry cannot be tolerated, one of the nation’s leading security experts says....

University of Hawaii college football has been on a losing streak, impacting athletic department revenue....

...On Aug. 3,  2013, Sherbow sent an email to the FBI and the media with the headline “Cutting Off Tulsi Gabbard’s Head.”....

"...researchers are asking 11-year-olds whether they’ve had sex, how many partners they’ve had and if they’ve had anal sex...."

Hawaii’s state campaign spending commissioners want the Honolulu city prosecutor to investigate a case brought by former Gov. Ben Cayetano against Pacific Resource Partnership’s political action committee....

...Hawaii’s $30-billion unfunded liability per resident is $21,852, the seventh highest in the nation....

Hawaii voters opposed same sex marriage in 1998 by a vote of 69.2 percent to 28.6 percent....

Students and faculty at the University of Hawaii are joining forces to try to force solutions to the system’s spiraling financial crisis....

While voters across the country handed Republicans control of the U.S. Senate and expanded their numbers in the U.S. House of Representatives, virtually nothing changed  for Hawaii....

Hawaii prohibits government funding of private preschools, but that may change Tuesday....

New Jersey, New York and Illinois have imposed mandatory quarantines for health care workers who treated Ebola patients in West Africa....

House Speaker Joe Souki has refused a request to expel former House Speaker Calvin Say....

...Some Hawaii companies are taking advantage of visitors and elderly residents, but state officials are thwarting attempts to investigate, a supervisor with the state Department of Commerce says....

...Matson Terminals Inc has pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor violations of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899....

Hawaii ranks worst in three major categories in the seventh annual “Rich States, Poor States” report....

...The gift cards, valued at between $10 and $20 each, are issued to 11, 12 and 13-year-olds....

A 10-year battle in state court over a 120-acre commercial property in Waimanalo is coming to an end....

...state administration and some key lawmakers want the state Department of Human Services  to take over the Connector....

Medical officials responded to an Ebola scare by placing a patient in isolation....

"...this case is a perfect storm of public corruption” Totto said....

...the state is “headed into a situation where there is anticipated fiscal year imbalance” because spending is outpacing revenue....

...Seabright ruled unconstitutional Hawaii’s law prohibiting alien residents from applying for firearms permits....

The former chief procurement officer for the Hawaii Department of Education has filed a whistleblower lawsuit....

A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and civilian contractor will spend more than seven years in federal prison....

Kawika Crowley, the Republican running for U.S. House District 2 in November, is quite possibly the state’s most interesting politician in 2014....

In its smoked form, marijuana potency and dosage cannot be controlled....

...the program for middle school students will include some key revisions....

A report by a fiscal watchdog deems Hawaii one of the worst “sinkhole” states for its growing debt burden to taxpayers....

Cliff Garcia operates Tropical Lamps & Shades on land his family has owned in the Kakaako district near downtown Honolulu for the past 70 years....

Three Hawaii lawmakers called on the State Elections Commission to fire Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago Friday during a standing room-only commission meeting....

...The ACLU lawsuit asks the Hawaii Supreme Court to allow any registered voter affected by Iselle to cast a vote to be included in the August 2014 primary results....

Hawaii’s health-care exchange, the Hawaii Health Connector, has taken another blow....

Polls showed that whites, and most mainland liberal groups, largely backed Schatz, while Hanabusa had the support of local Asians....

House Majority floor leader Rida Cabanilla is out of a job....

...New Age seekers, Hawaiian sovereignty activists, organic farmers and the odd pakalolo grower....

Ige got 143,835 votes, Abercrombie, 67,368....

...the state’s $126 million hurricane relief fund has nearly run dry after the state Legislature snatched the funds to balance the budget in 2011....

...If Abercrombie loses this primary, it will be the first time in Hawaii’s history a sitting Democrat governor is ousted after just one term....

House and Senate negotiators reached a compromise Wednesday on a Veterans Affairs health care reform bill....

...he is accused of repeatedly molesting a 13-year-old boy, and has been held in the state prison facility since February....

“When my ballot was stolen, I felt so violated. I am very concerned about corruption here on the island,” Woods said....

...Matson and Horizon improperly billed the U.S. Department of Defense, costing $2 million a year in damages....