Entries for June 2014

The public and the employees were told that county offices needed to be shut down because the county was in financial difficulty. This was not true....

Civil Beat tried to throttle and censor the work of Pritchett who has penned many stinging independent political pieces....

California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....

it would “...lead directly to government censorship of political speech...."

Azerbaijan has launched an unusual campaign to win influence among U.S. lawmakers, teaming up with a Turkish guru in exile and the sister of Texas Gov. Rick Perry....

...when the Bracy family investigated their options they couldn’t find any plan that didn’t both cover elective abortions and require a surcharge solely for that purpose....

Over 11% of Hawaii households are multigenerational, the largest percentage in the United States....

...even as the ailing, 13-term delegate was having his statement inserted into the Congressional Record, freshman U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was upstaging him....

Reid has purposely tried to damage the names of Charles and David Koch, prominent conservative donors....

In Hawaii, despite almost 60 years of one-party rule, we see our quality of life declining....

The report found that the 2013 graduates who borrowed to attend Richardson carry an average debt load of $70,263....

...twelve candidates have no challenger....

...the Hawaii Supreme Court announced it would consider the four-year legal challenge waged by a hui of environmental groups against the City and County of Honolulu....

"...it’s all the more important the people of Hawai‘i have an electoral field that offers balance and choice...."

Only 31% favored federal recognition, while 6% chose "independence."....

Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...

"...immediately allow our veterans to use their VA identification card to obtain medical care through the private health care system, with the VA paying the bill...."

Some school principals are asking the State Board of Education to remove Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and her deputy, Ronn Nozoe....

...what matters most is whether we end up with enough lawmakers in Congress willing to reign in the increasingly imperial Obama presidency in his final two years....

...The Act also increases the cap on the amount of the credit per production from $8 million to $15 million and moves the expiration date for the credit from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019....

“By the end of the first quarter, we had worked through the high-cost crude inventory...."

...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....

Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....

...the EPA's new cap-and-trade regulations will make the poor a lot poorer....

...Baron and Budd negotiated a $3.7 million settlement on behalf of the State of Hawaii and a $1.6 million settlement on behalf of the State of Mississippi....

The Super PAC will be promoting our unique Homeowners Bill of Rights and Wrongs ....

Honolulu is building a 20-mile elevated rail line that costs well over twice as much as the average light rail. Yet those lines will be limited to little (or no) more than light-rail capacities....

The prospect of helping to feed the starving and improve the lives of people across the planet should not be nipped because of the self-indulgent fretting of first-world activists....

...Reid, D-Nev., has promised the Senate will take up a proposed constitutional amendment this year that would radically alter the First Amendment.....

... compared to most other fishing fleets in the U.S., workers in this fleet are at high risk of suffering a fatal injury ....

...we will have to keep a close eye on our election office to see if and when he or someone on his behalf picks up a packet containing the petitions that must be circulated....

We certainly hope that no one is thinking that the citizens of the reconstituted Kingdom living on state lands, and taking advantages of the benefits and services offered by the state and federal governments, will then claim they don’t have to pay for them....

Moody's state medians show Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York have the highest net tax-supported debt per capita....