Entries for July 2020

...no new deaths, no new hospitalizations....

...Ige's COVID order suspends law requiring that people who want to do business with the State or municipal governments need to be current with their state and federal taxes....

...no new hospitalizations, no new deaths....

...Friday July 10, 2020 Adjournment Sine Die....

...celebrate the nation’s independence … while still under lockdown....

...The HPUC perceives the underlying problem as YB management’s inability to control costs and operate an effective service....

...The intense secrecy that has come to characterize the Honolulu Police Department....

...one new death, two new hospitalizations....

...The Real Plan for Fall Semester—School 2 Days per Week, Teachers Get Paid for 5 days....

...no new hospitalizations, no new deaths....

...the institute said it "continues to have grave concerns," since "the powers contemplated in this bill are so sweeping and broad as to raise significant questions about privacy, civil liberties and constitutionality."....

"...Reducing the number of in-person courses by using online and hybrid options while ensuring students can achieve the same learning objectives regardless of instructional format...."

...Despite making a commitment to working on COVID-19 related legislation and budget issues, anti-gun legislation continues to move forward in the Hawaii legislature....

" ... the fate of the Thirty Meter Telescope really coincides with the entire astronomy industry in the United States...." --Ige

...which would inflate the cost of government while Maui’s economy has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic....

...Like many Hawaiians, I believe there is room on the Mauna for both science and the sacred.  But we must protect the environment and honor the culture.  With pono management, the presence of world class scientific equipment will benefit Hawaiians and all people through advances in education, jobs, economic opportunity, and global competitiveness.”....

...three new hospitalizations, no new deaths....

...videos show multiple confrontations between Republican HD49 candidate Michael 'Kilomana' Danner and police....

...A lawsuit was filed in Hilo Circuit Court in 2017 alleging essentially the same set of facts on the same date....

...the defendant has been and is currently involved with managing and/or coaching youth sports teams, and was the agent and President of Kainalu Little League, Inc. ...

...The anti-mask rhetoric has become absurd: We all know that decades of use of masks by doctors, nurses and the Japanese did not asphyxiate them, and did not turn them into communist peons or face covering Muslims....