"The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, just like every governmental agency, must follow its own rules and state law."

Trustee Dan Ahuna was named board vice chair....

...the Commission has jurisdiction over more than 50,000 state officials and employees....

The change is expected to save the county approximately $400,000 annually....

If you look closely at the activists there, none of any have t-shirt tans or even the slightest hint of field dirt under their nails or on their shoes....

KIUC expects to reach 50% in 2018....

The Legislature should not approve any extensions of the GET and it should pass a bill directing the city to handle current and future deficits with its own resources. This offers hope for some accountability and cost containment....

...the University of Hawaii Law Review is devoting one of its issues to a symposium on issues related to the sharing economy....

...Akina Appointed to Ad Hoc Audit Committee....

...House Bill 1589 would allow the use of sound suppressors while hunting in the state of Hawaii....

Department director appointments require the approval of the Honolulu City Council....

... Kaniela Ing has spent years trying to force Hawaiians into a fake Indian tribe ....

Hawaii’s S.B. 357 would allow doctors to prescribe lethal drugs the same day a patient is diagnosed as terminally ill without a second opinion ....

Hawaii chef slices through anti-GMO propaganda....

...passage will open doors for lawsuits as it has done in California....

Candidate recruitment has begun and will end on February 17, 2017....

...six components: housing, utilities, grocery items, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services....

Keli'i Akina and Andy Blom share Grassroot insights from Hawaii and DC....

On February 17, the court will decide whether to reconsider the findings of lower courts in the cases of Ravalli County Republican Party v McCulloch and Democratic Party of Hawaii v Nago....

The state of Hawaii, which filed a lawsuit over the travel ban with similar claims on Friday, had asked to intervene in the Washington state case. The Ninth Circuit declined, instead allowing the Aloha State to file a friend-of-the-court brief....

The newly created 12th Circuit would include Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and Washington state....

...100 “Short Form” bills have been introduced to the Hawaii legislature....

The State kept 10% of the surcharge collected or $25.92 million – which is more than the Department of Taxation’s entire Fiscal Year 2016 operating budget of $24 million....

...Honolulu County workers make more than neighbor island workers....

...New data show government outpacing private sector, pointing to an unhealthy economy....

Farmers in SE Colorado started harvesting the plant in 2013, and farmers in Vermont began harvesting in 2014....

There are 20 bills currently on the table dealing with vacation rentals....

HB381 is scheduled on Wednesday, February 8, 9:00 a. m. at the capitol's room 429....

...give everybody a pay raise--by cutting taxes....

Candidate recruitment has begun and will end on February 17, 2017....

Is a 7% return on investment sustainable into the future? Another organization that studied the issue said that a more realistic rate of return would be the “risk-free” rate, which they calculated at 2.344%....

the Department of Taxation has been allowed to keep a full 10% of the rail surcharge for the costs of administering it, despite the fact that the law directs DOTAX to calculate how much is required for its management of the surcharge, then return the remainder to the rail project....

...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....

New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.6 percent), Hawaii and Alaska are tied for second at 21.7 percent each....

Trannies used by the left as a driver of far-reaching social re-ordering....

Hawaii is trying to copy California, but look how that turned out!  ... tons of lawsuits ....

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....

“Within days of my call for an independent audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Rep. Kaniela Ing has announced plans to use the legislature to target me...."

Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....

"A person can be lying in their feces in a public stairwell and have an absolute constitutional right to do so, but the citizens walking over or through this public health hazard have no rights.”

Gov. David Ige today announced the appointment of First Circuit chief judge Derrick H.M. Chan to the Intermediate Court of Appeals....

Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income....

Considering how often we are promised "effective" policy or political plans that "work", there's surprisingly little effort spent measuring that effectiveness....

The new application deadline is March 4, 2017....

Senate Bill 548....

Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....

Wednesday, January 25, marked the cutoff date for bill introduction in the Hawaii legislature....