Entries for May 2023

... empower the State, county, schools, and community members to directly collaborate on efforts to make streets safer ....

... On closing day, the House passed the final version of the state budget and priority fiscal bills ....

... Governor Josh Green signed House Bill 426 to open the door for anti-gun zealots to bankrupt the firearm industry with frivolous lawsuits in order to prevent law-abiding citizens from accessing firearms ....

... county lawmakers have it in their power to prevent or at least mitigate property tax increases ....

... Solicitor General Kimberly Tsumoto Guidry served as deputy attorney general for over 20 years  ....

... Failed plaintiff Karl Dicks is a member of the Hawaii Republican State Committee and District 46 Chair.  Will he be expelled from the Republican Party for seeking its removal from the ballot in a previous lawsuit? ....

... for embezzling $96,000 while he was the Secretary-Treasurer of the Hawaii Longshore Division of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 ....

... a years-long scheme to steal millions of dollars from American consumers’ bank accounts ....

... Every year more than 350,000 firearms are stolen from vehicles and today state legislators added Hawaii to the list of states where leavening loaded firearms unattended in a vehicle is legal ....

... to transfer non-ag park lands to the Department of Agriculture (DOA) for agricultural production ....

... oxycontin has not hit Hawaii as hard as other states ....

... a funding scheme that would force them to hand over 20 percent of their pay to third-party at-sea monitors they must bring on their boats—a mandate that Congress never approved by statute ....

... The latest leftist fad has already become a 'deeply held cultural belief' ....

... Many of the locations that we will see initially will be in areas such as Hawaii, Guam, Japan and other locations in the [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] theater .... 

... As measured in nominal dollars, these visitors spent $1.84 billion in March 2023, up from $1.53 billion (+20.4%) in March 2022 and $1.49 billion (+23.4%) in March 2019 ....

... Video: Brian Schatz: Hawaii Deserves ‘Fairness’ On $1 Lease By U.S. Military Of 23,000 Acres Of Land ....

... the Tax Foundation’s 2023 State Business Tax Climate Index ....

... After eight years of inaction, DoH forced DOBOR's hand by grabbing control of their budget ....

... Annual Nursing Salary When Adjusted for Cost of Living ....

... The Tax Relief Shell Game Ends, and Broad-Based Relief Didn’t Make It ....

... in Honolulu, spending on the basics is $865 higher than the monthly income for a family of three that earns $100,000 annually ....

... On April 5, 2023, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court denied Hawaiʻi State Auditor Leslie Kondo full access to minutes of closed executive sessions of the OHA Board of Trustees ....

... Par Hawaii is the first refinery in the nation authorized to use renewable feedstock to produce renewable fuels under Foreign-Trade Zone procedures ....

... a new consequence seems to have emerged: The city recently saw its bond rating downgraded ....