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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
H-1 Traffic relief for O`ahu
By News Release @ 12:13 PM :: 4053 Views

The first project focuses on improving the westbound afternoon rush hour commute on the H-1 Freeway from Honolulu to Central and Leeward O‘ahu by adding a 6.2-mile contraflow lane starting at the Radford Drive overpass and ending at the Waiawa Interchange (H1-H-2 merge).

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Friday, January 9, 2009
Additional $125 M shortfall: Governor Lingle responds to reduced revenue forecast
By News Release @ 9:32 PM :: 3021 Views
The lower revenue projections reflect the challenges we will face as a state in the next couple of years, and underscore the need for all of us to work together. By law the State is required to enact a budget and financial plan that does not result in a deficit at the end of the fiscal year.
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Lingle Admin: Two proposals for Turtle Bay purchase
By News Release @ 8:37 PM :: 3076 Views
The State’s offers allowed for an exit strategy that would have eliminated or limited the need to use State tax dollars to acquire the land. This included possible options of the State selling, and/or working with other entities that would purchase the resort hotel, golf courses, related businesses and condominiums as part of the financing.
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Governor nominates five UH Regents
By News Release @ 4:19 PM :: 3411 Views
Governor Linda Lingle today announced she has selected five individuals to immediately replace University of Hawai‘i regents who have been serving as holdovers.
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Governor Lingle nominates prosecutor Rom Trader Judge First Circuit
By News Release @ 6:40 PM :: 5469 Views
Governor Linda Lingle today nominated Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Rom Alex Trader to serve as a judge of the First Circuit Court (O‘ahu). Trader’s nomination is subject to confirmation by the Hawai‘i State Senate.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Marc Miranda appointed Governor's E. Hawaii liaison
By News Release @ 10:48 AM :: 4492 Views
Governor Linda Lingle has appointed Honoka‘a native Marc Miranda to serve as her liaison to the East Hawai‘i community. Miranda will start his new duties on Jan. 12.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Lingle: Six pardons in 2008
By News Release @ 8:40 PM :: 3701 Views
Governor Linda Lingle announced today that she granted pardons to six individuals in 2008...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Nine new laws for 2009
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 3493 Views
“Among the new laws are measures designed to protect children from Internet predators, compel parents to pay child support, and prohibit alcohol consumption in common areas of public housing projects,” said Governor Lingle.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Pro Bowl leaving Hawai`i in 2010
By News Release @ 9:31 PM :: 4357 Views
“The senior leadership of the NFL told me explicitly that their decision had nothing to do with anything the State did or did not do, but was an opportunity to try something they had been talking about for years. I am optimistic that the Pro Bowl will return to Hawai‘i in 2011."
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
Gov Lingle proposes salary freeze for Legislature, Judges and Executive
By News Release @ 11:41 AM :: 4385 Views
Two-Year salary freeze would save state over $4.1 million.
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Sunday, December 7, 2008
Statement on Ceded Lands Issue
By News Release @ 12:52 AM :: 12069 Views :: Akaka Bill, Hawaii History, Hawaii State Government, Land Use, OHA

News Release from Governor's office responds to December 6, 2008 Honolulu Advertiser article. The Advertiser quotes Bill Meheula, a key player in Dan Akaka's 2006 reelection campaign and Lilian Kame'eleihiwa, of the UH Hawaiian Studies Dep't who ague that OHA has a claim to ceded lands and seem to imply that the State has taken a new position in its appeal to the US Supreme Court requesting the Court overturn the Hawaii Supreme Court ruling blocking the state from selling ceded lands.

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Friday, December 5, 2008
Governor releases nomination list for 1st Circuit Court
By News Release @ 12:25 AM :: 3179 Views
HONOLULU, December 4 – Governor Linda Lingle today released a list of judicial nominees that was provided to her by the Judicial Selection Commission ...
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Friday, October 10, 2008
Lillian Koller named “Public Official of the Year”
By News Release @ 4:57 AM :: 9987 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

HONOLULU – GOVERNING magazine announced today that Hawai‘i Human Services Director Lillian Koller has been selected as a “Public Official of the Year” for her leadership in bringing about widespread improvements at the State Department of Human Services (DHS) over the past five years, including an overhaul of the child welfare system.

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Monday, June 17, 2002
Unity House Fraud: Roberta Cabral Pleads Guilty
By News Release @ 11:59 PM :: 539 Views :: Ethics, Labor, OHA
P R E S S   R E L E A S E from US Department of Justice, June 17, 2002 Edward H. Kubo, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of...
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