Entries for 'News Release'

an exclusive luncheon fundraiser for the Hawaii Republican Assembly's campaign to 'conservatize' Hawaii....

...the impending total depletion of its trust fund....

Schatz brought on many of the national consultants who helped Hirono win her seat last November....

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys say clerks need to enforce law, not bound by district court injunction....

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

...for causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne....

Some of the gifts are valued at up to $1,000....

DOH has acquired an adequate supply of purified protein derivative solution used for tuberculosis skin testing and will resume providing the test....

to hire 21 additional workers, who will assist 21,516 people with enrollment into affordable health insurance coverage....

The Governor this year signed a total of 269 bills into law, and Lt. Gov. Shan S. Tsutsui this afternoon will sign seven as Acting Governor. Twelve other measures will become law without signature....

DLNR is seeking new projects for its Hawai‘i Forest Legacy Program....

it is difficult to argue against empirical evidence....

Tsutsui will sign the following bills passed by the 2013 Hawaii State Legislature....

Dr. Christopher B. Happy has been selected as Honolulu’s Chief Medical Examiner....

On April 12, 2013, OHA Trustees were surprised to learn that the loan we got from Bank of Hawaii was not a secured loan and that it had to be backed by Trust dollars....

On this date 115 years ago, the U.S. began absorbing an island paradise....

...prevent Hawaii residents from having their private medical information used as a marketing tool by drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), some of which also operate mail-order pharmacies....

A community pharmacist in the Northern Mariana Islands reports that his Medicare patients' closest preferred pharmacy is nine hours away by plane in Hawaii....

HB1149 (Relating to Wind Energy Facilities) requires a wind energy facility owner to be responsible for facility decommissioning and provide evidence of financial security....

Several hundred people visited the sale over this 2-day period to browse and purchase items and get acquainted with the HRP....

...mental health causes accounted for 5,180 hospital visits in Hawaii in 2011. That's well above the next highest cause, heart failure, with 2,954....

Two Hawaii high schools won major awards, while one Hawaii student took away a top award at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s 12th Annual student Underwater Robotics Competition, held in Federal Way, Wash....

all 32 charter schools and the State Public Charter School Commission...completed the execution of the first charter school performance contracts in the state’s history....

overcharged Medicare for a back procedure known as "kyphoplasty" using a fraudulent billing scheme first exposed by two whistleblowers....

The announcement follows the release last Thursday of a report by the National Parks Service (NPS) that was critical of the division’s efforts....

fingerprint, photograph and background checks for those bringing firearms into Hawaii....

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

"Lowering customers’ costs by accelerating development of low-cost, fast track utility-scale renewable energy projects...."

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

The agreement will go into effect upon the settlement and ratification of union contracts by Hyatt associates in San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Chicago.....

"My goals are to expand the universe of vessels that can transport natural gas and other fuel products from the U.S. to Puerto Rico to help reduce the cost of electricity...."

The legal team defending California’s marriage amendment filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday to vacate a premature order that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit issued Friday....

Democrats led by Willie Espero are pushing for a special session to legalize same-sex "marriage" in Hawaii....

How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision – which applies only to civil marriages – changes that....

a federal court has ordered the government not to enforce the HHS abortion-drug mandate....

four bills related to land preservation, emergency medical services, small boat harbors and the Kahoolawe Island Reserve....

Lawsuit Seeks Transparency Before Implementation of a 'Bigger, Faster and Better' Biometrics System....

The US Department of Defense has released the following ‘Briefing Card’ to military officers in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision....

Senate Bill 1003 allows for periodic security audits of all Executive Branch departments and agencies to ensure that the state’s computer infrastructure and sensitive data are protected from unauthorized use....

3 beaches (1%) had more than 20% of their samples exceed state standard(s)....

...Abercrombie today signed seven bills related to agriculture....

...language in the Windsor ruling supports my position in the Hawaii lawsuit, which is currently pending in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals....