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Wednesday, June 8, 2022 |
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Sierra Club, Solar Industry Rally Against SB2510
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 1574 Views :: Energy
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... capping the amount of any single renewable energy source to 45% per island ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Cocaine News Update: Is Council District 2 Reserved for Crime Families?
By Andrew Walden @ 11:41 PM :: 7931 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Politicians, Drugs
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... Council Dist 2: Makua Rothman vs convicted cocaine dealer Chad Tsuneyoshi ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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508 Candidates Pull Papers -- 394 file
By News Release @ 11:00 PM :: 23124 Views :: Office of Elections
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... filing closed Tuesday, June 7, 2022, candidates have one day to withdraw ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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When permission is absent--Misrepresentation of Micronesian navigation must be corrected
By Selected News Articles @ 9:48 PM :: 3297 Views :: Hawaii History
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... Cultural appropriation by the Polynesian Voyaging Society is robbing me and my Micronesian brothers of our heritage, history and truthful place in the world ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Racial Equality in Education -- Hawaii Ranks 11th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:08 PM :: 1365 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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... data compares the difference between white and black Americans in areas such as high school and college degrees, test scores and graduation rates ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Hawaii Lack of Affordable Housing “largely a manufactured crisis”
By Video @ 7:15 PM :: 3945 Views :: Development, Land Use
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... ‘Hawaii zoning atlas’ will identify barriers to housing ....
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Biden Admin Claims Hawaii is Economic Success Story
By News Release @ 2:07 PM :: 2100 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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"...In the largest sector (government), the Hawaii economy added 400 jobs between January 2021 and April 2022...."
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022 |
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Feds Bust Gambling, Drug Ring Operating on Maui, Oahu
By News Release @ 1:08 PM :: 1957 Views :: Gambling, Drugs
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... once again the Feds doing the job the State won't do ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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State Economy: Hawaii Ranks 48th
By Selected News Articles @ 5:47 PM :: 1704 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics
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... 2022’s Best & Worst State Economies ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii 3rd Highest Closing Costs in USA
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 1292 Views :: Cost of Living
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... Average Closing Costs for Purchase Mortgages Increased 13.4% in 2021--CoreLogic ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii Most Dangerous State for COVID-19 Right Now
By Selected News Articles @ 4:13 AM :: 1794 Views :: COVID-19
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... On a per capita basis, the Aloha State reported 88.7 average daily cases per 100,000 people, the most of any state ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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Hawaii Cost of Living Matched by Cost of Dying
By Selected News Articles @ 3:50 AM :: 1894 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... The Cost of Dying: Average cost of funerals, cremations, and medical care ....
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Monday, June 6, 2022 |
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Where it Pays to be a Nurse? -- not Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 3:43 AM :: 2323 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
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... the high cost of living makes Hawaii nurses the lowest-salaried nurses in the nation ....
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 |
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Duke Aiona Running for Governor?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:47 PM :: 3178 Views :: Republican Party
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...Will Hawaii Republicans manage to field a credible candidate for Governor?....
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 |
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HB2024: UH Outlines Mauna Kea Leases to be Abandoned
By News Release @ 7:41 AM :: 2568 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... HB2024 HD1 SD2 CD1 assumes that UH Real Property Agreements become property owned and controlled by the MKSOA by legislative directive ....
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Sunday, June 5, 2022 |
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The Kansas Experiment: Ten Years Later
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1703 Views :: Tax Credits, Taxes
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... It would have increased the state sales tax and would have eliminated many tax credits and deductions. The legislature, predictably, tossed out these offsets ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Hawaii Mission Academy Sued Over ‘White Privilege’ Attack on Hapa Girl
By Andrew Walden @ 11:22 PM :: 4780 Views :: Education K-12, Ethics
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... How much money will Hawaii private school boards be willing to pay lawyers for the ‘privilege’ of pushing this latest pseudo-intellectual academic fad on their students? ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Maui’s Public Nuisance Climate Lawsuit
By Selected News Articles @ 6:58 PM :: 2081 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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... Over 1,300 climate lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. None has yet succeeded ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Want more housing? Try economic freedom
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:14 PM :: 1746 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... it’s technically easier to build a house for Oprah than it is to build houses for average families ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Iwasa Rips Rail Recovery Plan: “Errors that no one seems to care about”
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:54 PM :: 2448 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Ige Signs Gun Inspection Bill
By News Release @ 10:44 AM :: 1851 Views :: Second Amendment
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... HB2075 (Act 030), restoring part of a previous gun law that was struck down by a federal court last year ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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TMT Telescope Abandons Part of Building Permit
By News Release @ 10:38 AM :: 2816 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... DOH received a Notice of Cessation from the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) International Observatory for its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit ....
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Former Honolulu Police Officer Indicted and Arrested for Child Sex Offenses
By News Release @ 2:47 AM :: 1605 Views :: Police
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... Jordan is listed in HPD’s 2021 annual discipline report that is shared with state lawmakers. The department accused Jordan of criminal conduct, “promoting intoxicating liquor to a minor.” He resigned “prior to discharge” ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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How to increase housing and ease homelessness in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:26 PM :: 1871 Views :: Homelessness, Cost of Living
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... six major layers of housing regulation: the state Land Use Commission, county plans, community plans, county zoning, special management area permitting and the historic districts ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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CNHA Swipes Juicy Mainland Tourism Marketing Contract from HVCB
By News Release @ 7:01 AM :: 1867 Views :: Tourism
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... contract for a comprehensive range of brand management and visitor education services for the Hawaiian Islands in the United States market, as well as support services shared by Hawai‘i’s brand management teams worldwide ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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Eleven Years Later: Bridge Aina Lea Affordable Housing Developer Loses Lawsuit
By News Release @ 6:49 AM :: 2113 Views :: Hawaii County , Development
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... this is what happens if you try to build affordable housing in Hawaii ....
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Friday, June 3, 2022 |
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Hawaii's $800M Crypto Marketplace Last Minute Reprieve
By News Release @ 6:37 AM :: 1467 Views :: Small Business
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... As of December 31, 2021, there were approximately 134,000 Hawai‘i consumers who transacted over $800 million in digital currencies through participating companies in the DCIL .....
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Biden Mandates Project Labor Agreements, 73% of Contractors will Stop Bidding
By News Release @ 2:49 PM :: 1586 Views :: Development, Labor
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... Seventy-three percent of surveyed firms report they are currently bidding on federal construction projects valued at $35 million or more. Yet the same percentage, 73 percent, report they would not bid on those projects if a project labor agreement were required....
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Climate Hucksters Sue Hawaii Department of Transportation
By News Release @ 6:21 AM :: 2169 Views :: Energy, Environment, Greenmail
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... plaintiffs claim that their state DOT’s active operation of a transportation system that results in high levels of greenhouse gas emissions is causing significant harm ....
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Enviros Launch Push for Largest Marine 'Monument' Ever
By News Release @ 5:46 AM :: 1621 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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... It would well surpass the size of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, which was the world’s largest protected area when President Barack Obama expanded it in 2016 ...
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Thursday, June 2, 2022 |
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Surprise: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts field hearings in Hawaii
By Video @ 5:29 AM :: 2283 Views :: DHHL, Congressional Delegation, OHA
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... These hearings --Chaired by Sen Schatz-- were not announced anywhere. Not by OHA, DHHL, CNHA, nor by any member of the Congressional delegation, nor by any news release from the Senate Indian Affairs Committee ....
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022 |
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Bus Fares Going Up
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 2479 Views :: Honolulu County, Cost of Living
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... The Honolulu City Council approved Ordinance 21-7, hiking fares ....
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022 |
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DBEDT Projects Hawaii economic growth unchanged at 3.2 percent
By News Release @ 5:44 AM :: 1265 Views :: Economy
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... despite U.S. economic growth projections being revised downward ....
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022 |
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Where people in Hawaii are moving to most
By Selected News Articles @ 3:34 AM :: 2303 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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... Stacker compiled a list of states where people from Hawaii are moving to the most using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022 |
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Census Overcount Favored Blue States
By Selected News Articles @ 5:04 AM :: 1897 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Hawaii Statistics
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... red states effectively lost at least three seats in Congress while blue states effectively gained them ....
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022 |
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Hawaii Democrats Elect New Party Chair
By News Release @ 4:36 AM :: 1885 Views :: Democratic Party
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... Anti-Vaxxer Shannon Matson Campaigns for Party Chair, Loses ....
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Monday, May 30, 2022 |
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Auē! All four counties are planning spending sprees
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:30 PM :: 2507 Views :: Hawaii County , Honolulu County, Kauai County, Maui County, Taxes
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... Hawaii’s gross domestic product is down by 4.43% since 2019, yet even as the economy suffers, all four counties seem determined to spend like crazy ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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How to Make Housing Affordable in Hawaii
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:45 PM :: 2511 Views :: Development, Land Use, Cost of Living
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... Hint: It's not because of “empty homes,” short-term rentals, “outside investors” or other distractions ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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What went down at the 2022 Hawaii Legislature
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:38 PM :: 1678 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... the good, the bad and the ugly ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Transit History
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 1943 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... Fat chance of the Feds giving us that much now ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Oahu’s problematic short-term rental ban
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:55 AM :: 2502 Views :: Small Business, Tourism
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... Have you been renting out a room to help pay your mortgage? ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Report: Federal funding flaw shortchanges Hawaii's school nutrition programs
By Selected News Articles @ 3:40 AM :: 1259 Views :: Education K-12
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... The Hawaii State Department of Education is paying tens of millions of dollars to feed Hawaiian school children due to a flaw in the funding method used by the federal government ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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83 public schools to offer summer meals
By News Release @ 3:35 AM :: 1269 Views :: Education K-12
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... to ensure that children continue to receive balanced nutrition during the summer break ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 28, 2022
By GovTrack .us @ 1:40 AM :: 1280 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....
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Saturday, May 28, 2022 |
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Audit: 'No Limits' to HPD Overtime
By News Release @ 7:37 PM :: 2426 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics, Police
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... overtime cards, which document overtime requests and approval for payroll purposes, are managed manually, increasing the risk for human error, abuse, and fraud ....
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Saturday, May 28, 2022 |
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Navy Contractor: Piping Repairs Key to any Red Hill Solution
By News Release @ 4:11 PM :: 1766 Views :: Environment, Development, Military
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... It just so happens that these repairs are also the repairs needs to continue using the facility. What a coincidence! ....
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