Entries for October 2018

...OHA Wants You To Watch The Left Hand So You Wonʻt See What The Right Hand Has Been Doing....

...Bill 42 break the promise made by the full City Council in 2006 that city funds or bonds would not be used to fund the rail....

...the day after Election Day, maybe nobody will notice....

...we are perfectly positioned to develop and model the behaviors we hope to see in our society-at-large....those who feel threatened should reach out for help from an appropriate campus office....

...2018’s States with the Most and Least Powerful Voters for the Midterms....

...visitor spending and arrivals are up sharply everywhere except the Big Island....

...The state depends on mostly low-sulfur fuel oil for about 70 percent of its power. In 2020, though, demand for that fuel is expected to surge, pushing up prices....

...Aloha State utilities cost $730.86 -- $202.90 more than #2 Alaska....

...a “blank check” for adding fees and increasing Oahu property taxes for rail construction and operations....

...FTA has exercised considerable patience in waiting for the City to identify and implement the method it would use to provide the $44 million, yet the process is still incomplete....

...it alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033....

...Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2017-18 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request....

...their overall statistics are in the bottom 10th percentile of the rating scale for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions, employee satisfaction, primary care new patient wait time, and mental health continuity of care....

...a prior Hawaii Supreme Court case, Cieri v. Leticia Query Realty, 80 Haw. 54 (1995), said, “[R]eal estate is, particularly in Hawai`i, both scarce and expensive. As a result, the purchase of real estate or a residence likely is the largest ‘investment’ a person in Hawai`i may make in a lifetime.”....

...Proposals responding to RFP Part 1 will be accepted up to 2:00 p.m., Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST) on December 21, 2018....

...Ranking Property Taxes on the 2019 State Business Tax Climate Index....

...Contact your City Council member and strongly urge them to vote NO on all these gimmicks....

...Hero of Holocaust Deniers, Alfred De Zayas....

...to duck budgetary limits in the short run and spread their higher costs over the long run....

...the Star-Advertiser, which earns most of its revenue from ads, ran six convention related ads—all in opposition—beginning on October 14, 2018....

...How Affordable is Your Electricity? Comparing Electric Rates, Bills, and Burden....

...Hawaii's adult obesity rate is currently 23.8%, up from 15.7% in 2000 and from 8.9% in 1990....

...It’s time to open a real dialogue in our state and work together to find real and lasting solutions for education....

...More HIDOE students are both taking and passing Advanced Placement Exams....

...Chemophobia may lead to real risks....

...not reported to the 2018 Legislature as required by Sections 37-47 and 37-52.5, HRS....

...Bat Killing Windfarm partially bankrolls purchase of 2,882 acres of Central Oʻahu forest and fallow lands from Dole Food Company....

...The UH Hilo campus and the Hawaiʻi Island community is invited to meet the finalists on the following dates....

…Why You Should Not Vote Bill Aila for OHA….

...On October 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in Portland charged retired attorney Bruce L. Lamon, of Hillsboro, Oregon, with evading $744,000 in personal income taxes....

...Sandwich Isles Communications is not before a Hawaii court.  You can be sure it is not by choice....

...Government and the Cost of Living: Income-Based vs. Cost-Based Approaches to Alleviating Poverty....

... The public may send comments to the Approving Agency -- DLNR ....

...Only Nevada, Mississippi, and South Carolina are lower....

...Maui County Office of Economic Development is accepting invoices from vendors who provided goods and services under the recently terminated $100,000 grant awarded to an executive assistant of County Council Member (and anti-GMO activist) Alika Atay....

...The executive committee voted unanimously to continue its commitment to address issues of concern to the people of Hawaii, starting with public education....

...He thanked Democrats for unifying the Republican Party.... 

...The DOE’s Financial Management System, which dates to the 1990s and is used to process purchase orders and payments, went out of service during an Oct. 6 upgrade....

...internet service providers sued Vermont on Thursday in an effort to overturn its recently enacted net neutrality rules....

...IMF provides a handy list of things HART is not doing....

...all four annual savings reports filed by Johnson Controls through 2017 indicated that actual savings exceeded energy contract guaranteed savings for each period....

...if the last convention was so great, why won’t the next one also be great?....

...October 23 through November 3, registered voters may visit any early walk in voting location within their county to cast their ballot....

...Welcome to newspeak, takings edition.... 

...If you do not farm, why should you dictate how farming should be done?....

...Short term extension valid for events scheduled between October 22, 2018 and February 28, 2019....

...The public is invited to prepare submissions for the contest, which is held as part of the traditional Honolulu City Lights celebration....

...another provision that was passed by the 1978 Constitutional Convention to assure our fiscal health—and what our lawmakers have done to marginalize it....

...Palestinians and white nationalists are behind Gabbard's effort to take the mantle of the Sanders campaign.... 

...the lambs (the voters and taxpayers) didn't have much of a say as usual, and portions of the arguments revealed what these folks think about the intelligence of the average Hawaii voter....