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...and the least affordable housing....

...We need legislation to save the fishery and all DLNR ocean issued-permit businesses....

... Israelis--the one indigenous people whose rights are not upheld by UH Manoa prof .... 

...This request, in a case from Hawaii, is the first of two that the government is expected to file....

...“We hope it becomes a model for all captains who want to do right by their immigrant crew.”....

...“What you’ve got to do is get one of these kids to run for office,” Butler said....

...comparind more than 180 U.S. cities across 26 key indicators of job-market strength....

...Hawaii reported the lowest levels of adequate sleep at 56 percent, while South Dakota got the most sleep at 72 percent....

...OHA will be submitting four bills for consideration this session, as well as testifying on hundreds of other measures that impact our beneficiaries....

...It's turtles this time....

...and 5th for speeding....

...the president’s efforts to bar over 150 million nationals of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States....

...the justices have issued several fairly extraordinary orders in cases involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the latest iteration of the travel ban, which deals rather harshly with trial courts in California, Hawaii and Maryland....

...The benefits of the act are concentrated among special interest groups, but the costs are broadly dispersed....

...Hawaii lost 1,145 residents between 2016 and 2017....

...share of sheltered homeless persons to number of volunteering hours per capita to share of income donated to charity....

...islanders to trade in “U.S. government handouts, which are scheduled to end in 2023, for the wide-open promise of Chinese-style capitalism....”

...Honolulu is #1 for Homelessness, Pearl City is the 2nd-least needy city in USA....

...$4,540 a year in tax revenue per resident....

...government’s real job is to out of the way, not create more costly programs that don’t work....

...Native American student group accuses Polynesian dance group of ‘appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture’....

...2017’s States with the Best Elder-Abuse Protections....

...A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday....

...Interior will make sure local voices are not drowned out by “large, well-funded NGOs and special interests”....

...The Department of Justice asked the justices to lift lower court orders barring enforcement of the proclamation while legal challenges are adjudicated....

"Gabbard’s life would be unrecognizable without Butler’s influence.”

...Seniors in Hawaii are sick less often than those in any other state....

...this audit will, according to the SOQ, "provide recommendations on organizational, structural and procedural improvement[s] to strengthen the BOT's fiduciary oversight of the OHA and its LLCs."...

...regulations have also tended to reduce the supply of housing, including multifamily and low-income housing....

...nationwide injunctions foster forum-shopping for sympathetic judges....

...beginning Friday, residents will hear the nuclear warning siren on the first business day of every month just before noon....

...Challengers in Hawaii and Maryland responded today to the government’s request to have the Supreme Court intervene....

...Marijuana users in Honolulu are expected to turn over all firearms and ammunition to the state within 30 days of receiving the notice, according to a letter signed by police chief Susan Ballard....

... but Hawaii ranks 5th in Percentage of Population who Donate Time ....

...Thanks to the State Supreme Court's September 6, 2017 aquarium fishing decision, all ocean users now face the same fate as aquarium fishers--shut down awaiting an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)....

...WalletHub’s data crunchers compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 32 key indicators of evil deeds....

... a global warming “apocalypse” that will flood coastal cities, tear up roads and bridges with mega-storms and bring widespread famine and misery to much of the world ....

...The survey of 1,200 active-duty personnel, veterans, and their spouses shows 72 percent are in favor of education savings accounts (ESAs), 64 percent are in favor of school vouchers, and 63 percent favor tax-credit scholarships....

...“To impose the Jones Act on the people of Puerto Rico is deplorable,” U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-IL, told a crowd at the City Club of Chicago. “You cannot strangle an economy by saying that the only way that a state can ship its goods in or out is by using the most expensive shipping in the world.”....

...“We’re hopeful the Supreme Court will agree with our coalition that the travel ban is lawful and constitutional, and should be enforced in its entirety.”....

...In Hawaii, it takes an average of 988 days and $438 in fees to become licensed to perform one of many occupations under the thumbs of state regulators....

...The 2018 National Defense Authorization Act reflects language inserted in the bill by U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa that blocks the immediate deplyment of Ageis Ashore on Kauai....

...the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday night to lift the lower courts' blockades....

...Honolulu cost of living is 86 percent above national average .... 

...This report evaluates twelve publicly released agreements that Airbnb has entered with state or local governments....

...Overstock Began Accepting Bitcoin in January 2014....

...When asked whether department members “are aware of the endorsement, and if so, whether you approve of it,” only one professor replied, telling Campus Reform that “we are, and I am.”....

San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Deputies said they arrested Randall Saito, the Hawaii State Hospital escapee, at approximately 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning.....

... The Ninth Circuit on Monday partly granted an emergency motion by the Trump administration and lifted a preliminary stay on most aspects of President Donald Trump’s ban on entry into the United States ....

...“We got a few hundred subscribers, but nothing really earth shattering,” Epler says...Civil Beat has an annual budget of roughly $3 million and a staff of about 22 to 24 people....