Entries for August 2017

...Survey Coincides with Fifth Annual National Employee Freedom Week (Aug 20-26) to Promote Workplace Rights....

 ...one State department that has funds with no exemption, and refuses to pay it: the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL).... 

...The recent images from Charlottesville, VA-marches by torchlight, Nazi salutes, armed militia, angry mobs engaged in violent confrontation-are scary for adults to encounter, let alone children....

....Since then, the price of bitcoin has catapulted to over $4,000 per bitcoin, up from $1,000....

...despite the fact that City Auditor Edwin Young told the committee “the red flags were there”....

...on August 21, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state....

...HART Directors discussed using public-private partnerships to help fund the remaining elements of Honolulu's Rail Transit Project....

...“This week [TOTE] began conversations to secure the new deep water Kapalama Container Terminal (KCT) in Honolulu...."

...Non-profit organizations wanting to create a display on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Center grounds during the annual Honolulu City Lights exhibition must apply by September 1, 2017....

... Honolulu is the most expensive city in the USA, but in rural Hawaii $100 is worth $99.90 ....

...the 2016 edition of the “State of Hawaii Data Book.”....

....in this chess game, those in Charlottesville are just pawns....

...OHA Tricksters Are Hard At Work....

...153 employees received $1.7 million in overtime for bulky and white goods collection....

... government financial information in a concise, timely, clear, understandable, and accurate manner to the general public ....

...Please send your comments on the draft strategic plan by September 1, 2017....

...Interior, Census Launch 2018 Enumeration of Compact Migrants in Hawaii, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa To Determine Distribution of Compact Impact Funds....

...big enough to sail four ships through....

...City and HART officials were often unable to give specific answers to our questions and rarely took responsibility for their cost overruns and inflated budgets....

The essay titled “Broken Trust”, published on August 9, 1997 by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, reported widespread corruption involving Bishop Estate....

...Trump's refusal Saturday to specifically condemn by name those Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi white supremacists was morally deficient....

...the U.S. military will shoot down North Korea’s missiles if they fire on U.S. territory....

...today's information hearing is nothing more than kabuki theater designed to make us believe they're concerned....

“What is needed is a full, independent forensic audit of the project, to identify the reason — or reasons — for its significant cost overruns and missed deadlines...."

...the Central Services Skim has redirected about $45 million a year from the special funds to the state general fund....

...2017’s States with the Most Underprivileged Children....

...compare drunk driving penalties in all 50 states and D.C.....

...After two years of consecutive growth above 2 percent, Hawaii’s economy grew by 0.9 percent during the first quarter of 2017....

LifeSmarts is a free, national educational program that teaches students critical life skills in five key areas....

...Honolulu, HI, hit #3 in July with an increase of 8%, and returns to the list at #4 in August for another 6.7% increase. For August, that means median one-bedroom rent is $1,766 — the tenth highest in the country....

...the immediate cash flow problems have been solved for the most part by the Honolulu City Council, which authorized the sale of $350 million in bonds to help bail out the project....

...Mahalo for helping this idea to catch on....

...Honolulu Rail Project is on track to becoming the costliest and most mismanaged public transportation project in our nation's history....

... Hawaii ranks 4th with an average deduction of $2629 ....

...students and parents of Maui are being held hostage to bureaucratic bumbling that would make the keystone cops envious....

...Believe this?  Got Hawaii oceanfront real estate? I will buy it off you for 10% of assessed value cash money....

...Hawaii’s congressional delegation is hoping they’ll hook the big fish....

...Cliff Slater told the HART board that “everything should come up on the table, as John Henry Felix is calling for.”....

...a proposed Hawaii wind farm admits it will be lethal and seeks government permission to commence the killing....

...the Jones Act has stifled coastal shipping and shifted the movement of freight to the nation’s roadways....

...Telescope: For OHA, it’s all About the Rent Money....

Grant applications for land acquisition....

“While highways funding is limited, we haven’t let that stop us...."

...2017’s Best & Worst States for Health Care....

...once their Marshall Islands service is in place, Matson will no longer use Kyowa Line to transship cargo....

...North Korean state media warned Wednesday that it is considering launching strikes on U.S. forces in Guam, as well as the U.S. mainland....

...The Hawaii Legislature is hosting a public informational briefing on state funding for the City & County of Honolulu’s rail project at 10 a.m. Aug. 14 in the State Capitol auditorium....

...technical assistance grants totaling $467,095 to continue support for the Micronesia Resource Center One Stop Shop on Guam and the We are Oceania Hālau Ola One Stop Center in Hawaii...

...The contract features 10.65% wage hikes over four years and a reopener for years three and four -- conveniently timed for after the next gubernatorial election....

Texas has no personal income tax....