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...a cost of living more than 50 percent higher than the norm makes it very difficult to make a decent living....

The question of Hawaiian nationhood ... seems to be approaching the fish or cut bait stage....

The governor has gotten in some hot water for remarks seen as insensitive....

California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....

Azerbaijan has launched an unusual campaign to win influence among U.S. lawmakers, teaming up with a Turkish guru in exile and the sister of Texas Gov. Rick Perry....

...when the Bracy family investigated their options they couldn’t find any plan that didn’t both cover elective abortions and require a surcharge solely for that purpose....

Over 11% of Hawaii households are multigenerational, the largest percentage in the United States....

...even as the ailing, 13-term delegate was having his statement inserted into the Congressional Record, freshman U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was upstaging him....

Ten years ago, the Pentagon paid for a climate study that put forth many scary scenarios....

Honolulu is building a 20-mile elevated rail line that costs well over twice as much as the average light rail. Yet those lines will be limited to little (or no) more than light-rail capacities....

The prospect of helping to feed the starving and improve the lives of people across the planet should not be nipped because of the self-indulgent fretting of first-world activists....

...we will have to keep a close eye on our election office to see if and when he or someone on his behalf picks up a packet containing the petitions that must be circulated....

This year National Parents Organization of Hawaii introduced several bills related to addressing abuses of the Child Support Enforcement Agency....

...there is no Constitutional theory which endorses an executive agency alone to conduct foreign relations with existing (and for that matter, former) sovereign nations....

“In New Zealand we are trying to make new geothermal power stations work, competing with other forms of generation at probably 7.5 cents per KWh."

...I wrote to OHA on May 15 asking for a copy of the agenda and minutes of the meeting. They had 10 working days to reply....

If anyone is looking for evidence that Faleomavaega really has lost his mind, perhaps his reaction to the growing Veterans Affairs crisis is providing it....

...there is only one region (Honolulu) in Hawaii that has records dating back "nearly a century"....

This would be an end-run around both Congress and the Constitution....

The director of VA's Sierra Pacific Network, Sheila M. Cullen falsely claimed in "numerous official documents" that Bernard M. Baruch College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine awarded her a master's degree she never earned....

It has been just over seven months now that Faleomavaega continues to have been absent from public view....

“Go NON-GMO so you have a chance with a girl like Ryelee,” reads the caption to her picture....

Many lawmakers would like to know why the U.S. is contributing to a lower cost of living in China, while continuing to encourage high costs of living in the non-contiguous U.S. states and possessions....

...Cabanilla – the only representative to leave the floor to avoid voting on same sex marriage – still has no real opposition....

...Parents are right to complain about curricula or tests they don’t like, Lingle said. “But that’s not what the Common Core is.”....

Several recent news stories highlight the troubling irony of so-called free speech zones....

...During the test, a simulated ballistic missile target was acquired, tracked and engaged by the Aegis Weapon System. At approximately 7:35 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time....

The CMS says it will continue to be flexible with states....

... if any Republican can succeed in the Aloha State, it could be Fukumoto ....

SHAKA posted the voter registration of Maui voters online.  It included people’s names and addresses....

Of the 54 bills harmful to business that were introduced this session that we tracked, 23 bills were stopped....

...no agendas were filed in advance with the Lt Gov’s office, and no public notice appears to have been given....

Ninety-five percent of Hawaii's residents consider the city or area in which they live to be a good place for racial and ethnic minorities, earning the Aloha State the top spot in Gallup's 50-state ranking....

The paper provides taxpayers with concise information regarding the importance of these Hawaii tax cliffs and suggests policy changes....

...Petroleos Mexicanos said it will export crude to the U.S. state of Hawaii for the first time and that the initial shipment will be delivered in July....

Reams of his threatening emails have been reproduced online by Gawker in an article titled: “Dr. Tyrone Hayes: Biologist, Cock-Fixated Megalomaniac Email Addict”....

Excluding Hawaii and the District of Columbia, which were outliers, the state Exchange with the highest cost-per-enrollee was Massachusetts, at $5,681. Hawaii’s cost-per-enrollee was 32 times California’s....

But Slom is a figure of unique solitude, comprising the only single-member caucus anywhere in the country....

This newfound abundance has come primarily from the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing....

Despite claims to the contrary, relatively few Hawaiians would benefit from the increase....

“...investment in enhanced biotechnology is an essential component of the solution to some of our planet’s most pressing agricultural problems” -- President Barack Obama 

...SB3122 conference hearing continues Friday, April 25, 2014 at 11:30am in conference room 312 (State Capitol)....

Not surprisingly, they almost always report that funds spent on advertising translate into tourist spending and tax revenues many multiples of the original outlay....

...there are only 13 ships that can legally move oil between U.S. ports, and these ships are “booked solid”....

...residents in Hawaii took a dim view of their own schools, with only 46% ranking them as excellent or good....

This was actually Plan B, after an embarrassing failed attempt to go public in 2010....