Entries for 'News Release'

The Visitor Information Station and its restroom facilities will remain closed....

Mizumoto is CEO of Central Pacific Bank....

On July 9, Governor Ige signed Senate Bill 555, which will increase the food/excise tax credit for the first time in nearly a decade....

"Our exclusively Democratic congressional delegation is ranked the least effective congressional delegation in the United States by Roll Call newspaper."

The Hawaii Supreme Court has overturned former Circuit Court Judge Randal Lee’s order disqualifying two Deputy Prosecuting Attorneys from a high­ profile gambling case....

These directed reductions will result in a decrease of 1,200 Soldiers at Schofield Barracks....

James Dooley revisits highlights of his career as a hard-hitting investigative reporter....

All beneficiary and public feedback will be reviewed, with final decision making on the proposed project currently scheduled for the Hawaiian Home Commission meeting in Lahaina, Maui, on August 20 & 21, 2015....

“We are calling on all property owners who have studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units across O‘ahu to be a part of the solution to veteran homelessness.”

The next Native Hawaiian law training course will be offered on Saturday, August 1, 2015, at the UH Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law....

...city launches innovative new partnerships to provide cultural integration to COFA populations....

HC&S has been a member of the Maui community for over 140 years....

“Yesterday we decided to break down what some would consider to be a campsite."

Act 169: "Requires certain state councils, boards and commissions to attend a legal training course administered by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs on native Hawaiian customs and rights."

The U.S. House passed its FY 2016 transportation appropriations bill earlier this month, and the Senate bill was reported from the Senate Committee on Appropriations on June 25....

...Yesterday, Hawaii Governor Ige held a press conference to announce his intent to veto SB 265 which could enact Hawaii’s first sex trafficking law....

...At the end of 2014, customers were annually shifting an estimated $53 million, an increase of $15 million over the 2013 estimated total of $38 million....

Ige has informed the Hawai‘i State Legislature of his intent to veto the following bills....

Hawaii’s new Environmental Court will have broad jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases affecting the environment....

In February 2012, a company known as the Native Hawaiian Holding Company Inc. (owned by Bumpy Kanahele) entered into a service contract with the ASG....

Approximately 85 percent of HIV cases in Hawaii occur in men....

...HHC passed a resolution urging the Interior Department extend its July 13, 2015, deadline for public comment....

"The roads belong to all the people of Hawai‘i and they will remain open. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure lawful access."

...96.8% of Hawaii Gays stay outside 'Marriage'....

Total Visitor Expenditures Increased 10.4 Percent to $1.2 Billion....

...Organizers and the Site Supervisor had a brief discussion after which time he stated the drivers were going to be  sent home and the delivery would be cancelled....

"It is our belief that there will be mutual respect and aloha on Wednesday and in the days ahead as TMT restarts construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope...."

In Hawaii only 4.7% of high schools have a 10%+ gender equity gap in sports....

"The Hawaii Department of Education (HIDOE) has aligned its reform efforts and internal systems and processes to leverage progress toward outcomes...."

...The City Council deleted funding for the Office of Strategic Development (OSD) positions needed to address homelessness and the affordable housing crisis....

...Ige will join other elected officials and business leaders for the Washington Post’s “Powering Cities” forum on Tuesday, June 23...

HHIC Insights Medicare report illustrates the impact of the numerous Medicare payment cuts to Hawaii’s hospitals and how it would be potentially exacerbated by additional cuts proposed by Congress....

Public hearings will be held in American Samoa, CNMI and Guam on July 6, 13 and 15, respectively....

...new leaders are appointed to key state offices....

...TMT International Observatory Board has decided to move ahead to restart the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the morning of Wednesday, June 24....

...the median district in states like Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is more than 70% to 30% for the majority party....

Recently increased enforcement by the Commission has made the ethics code come to life and reach beyond the mere platitudes it was in the past when enforcement of the code was a rare exception....

Remember This?  "Rail Construction Will Create about 10,000 jobs Each Year" ....

This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty....

...nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identify as multiracial....

Clare Connors, David Louie, and Jill Otake....

“TMT and our partners support the Governor’s vision. In the past two weeks, Caltech and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have pledged their support...."

This aquifer is also the same one that BWS uses to provide water to residents from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai....

The applicant is requesting an ITP to authorize take of one threatened and six endangered species....

...analysis reveals those who love their job enough to tweet about it in the United States live in the Western half of the country....

These claims are separate and apart from matters being addressed in Arnold’s pending grievance....

...one more organ of old-boy power is dissolved into corporate America....

In a June 1, 2015 letter, WASC Vice President Barbara Gross Davis wrote that panel members were “extremely impressed” by Mānoa’s Interim Report and its progress....

...and this time the outgoing leadership admits it....