Entries for January 2016

...the story begins with poor Hawaiian farmers’ Maunawili Valley leasehold homes being bulldozed and cattle being slaughtered as Honolulu police stand by with fraudulent eviction notices....

...From Hawaii Coalition Against Legalized Gambling....

...allowing a lottery in Hawaii could open the door to other things....

...Honolulu’s inflation-adjusted land and housing prices have been highly volatile in the medium term since the 1960s....

"We are...acutely aware of the burden high electricity rates place on both the cost of doing business and living in Hawaii"

Applications for a vacant position on the State Commission on Water Resource Management are now being accepted for a new term that will begin July 1....

We don’t need lawmakers deciding what therapies should be supported or legal....

...studies invariable degenerate into preachy Gospel-like statements parroting back talking points from whichever side commissioned the particular economic study....

...featuring members of the "We the People" civic club from Kahuku High School....

The Legislature is currently involved in contesting the decision in Nelson v HHC, which has been confused with contesting funding for DHHL....

January 27, 2016 was the last day to introduce bills....

Interested persons must attend a mandatory CASA training program....

The recent rise in Hawaii's homeless population has highlighted the need for a better standard in involuntarily hospitalization.....

...at the Royal Hawaiian Golf Club in Kailua....

...retirees tend to live in rural or suburban areas with pleasant climates....

"...the federal government has imposed the most liberal immigration policy in U.S. history upon our island...."

For the fourth straight year, Hawai‘i’s tourism industry set new records....

...vacation days “not properly supported by leave application forms” are being handed out to union workers between 10% and 30% of the time....

This is the latest picture of the first four rail cars that are “expected to arrive this Spring”....

...Grassroot Institute of Hawaii offered comments before the CPC Committee deferred HB326....

Hawaii residents reach the top spot for the fifth time since Gallup and Healthways began tracking well-being in 2008...

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1 through June 7, 2016....

February 25 on Oahu ....

Only 4 days remain before final enrollment deadline for 2016 coverage....

...HTA claimed, up to 47,000 additional tourists visited the Hawaiian islands to watch the game...analysis of flight records at all of Hawaii's airports around game time found that claim to be false....

... commissioners decided to defer Proposal 17, which would have repealed the Affordable Housing Fund, Clean Water and Natural Lands Fund, and Grants in Aid Fund as well as returned authorization for special fund creation back to the mayor with council approval ....

...a planned drop in expenditures that has not been accounted for by any significant cuts....

"...the Sanctuary will not have an expanded purpose...."

... Ige will select senator’s successor from Democratic Party nominees ....

...hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars that are being wasted on biofuels....

The cost of merchant ship construction in the U.S. is approximately five times that of building comparable ships in South Korea and Japan....

ETS is looking to formalize its reorganization of ICSD and OIMT into ETS, as well as expand its team with the addition of up to 31 new positions....

By the year's end, the utility will need to collect $7,940,691.56 more to fulfill "revenue requirements" for GEMS....

February 10 and 11, and May, 4 and 5, 2016....

...unfunded liabilities, over-estimated revenues & skyrocketing expenses....

Jack P. Suyderhoud, Professor of Business Economics and Director of the MBA Program, Shidler College of Business, University of Hawaii at Manoa, answering a question about the Jones Act....

House and Senate Republicans respond to the State of the State Address .... 

Sugar is gone, as are many other aspects of the Hawaii we once knew. In their place, however, there is an exciting new world....

This new model prioritizes Bishop Museum's Kapālama campus and...the disposition of assets that no longer fit the long-term mission and goals of the Museum....

There is no estimated date of completion to the repairs....

The tribal plan is a combination of Larry Mehau’s goal—controlling the ports and airports--and Al Hee’s goal—stealing as much money from Hawaiians as possible and getting away with it....

On a per-capita basis, this will be the nation’s largest infrastructure fiasco....

"This is wholly unacceptable behavior in a democracy."

...he released seven chickens in the revenue office lobby....

Four years after the ‘Bank of Abercrombie’ bill was laughed out of the legislature, the push for a state-owned bank is being revived....

The bills, SB 2127 and HB 1658, say UH has “failed to charge sufficient sublease rent...."

Daewoo designed the Marlin Class containerships, built the main engines, and arranged the supply of much of the equipment installed on board. DSME engineers were on board for the sea trials....