Entries for 'News Release'

...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....

...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....

...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....

...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....

... 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 ....

...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....

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

...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.... 

...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....

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

...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 U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates on December 7, 2017....

The Defense Department is starting the first agencywide financial audit in its history....

...two days after they lost their bought n paid for judge....

...Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Campus Center Ballroom from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m....

...Hawaii still leads nation in homeless count per capita....

...The rating is tempered by significant expense pressures across the 10-campus system, declining enrollments, and extensive capital needs with a large backlog of deferred maintenance....

...Takayama has served as the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) since April 2015. She will assume her new position on Monday, Dec. 11....

...It was difficult to have to break the news to the parents that our findings did not result in charges against a perpetrator....

The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancies in the First Circuit (Oahu)....

...In or around November 2009, Respondent Kanazawa-Yee and two other ACOs, ACO A and ACO B, planned to obtain money from Inmate....

...where are all the protesters?....

...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an application from the Lalamilo Wind Company LLC for an incidental take permit of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel....

...justice, reparation and healing for those individuals who were violated decades ago....

...“When marine mammals strand themselves it’s usually a signal that something in our environment is out of sync,” said Ing (wrongly)....

...a standing order to allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone....

...Gov. Ige will participate in discussions with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao....

...These two factors combined mean Hawai‘i Energy operated at its most efficient, lowest cost of acquired savings ever....

...Through the first ten months of 2017 visitor spending exceeded results from the same period last year (+6.8% to $13.86 billion)....

...care for only one child in Hawai‘i consumes approximately 13 percent of the typical Hawai‘i family’s income....

...These gun surrender letters were first sent in September 2016....

...The County wants to fill nine vacancies on the Cost of Government Commission, representing each of the nine Council Districts....

...the State of Hawaii Dashboard and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Dashboard are only current up to 2013 for most of the categories presented....

...States such as Hawaii with especially high costs of living had ratios of debt-to-adjusted income of 26.43%, compared to the overall average of 15.9 percent....

...Monsanto took first place, scoring an impressive 91.6 percent....

...Actually, life is better now than it ever has been.  And the last 25 years have been very prosperous for humanity.  But lets not let reality get in the way of eco-socialism....