Entries for November 2014

Keli'i Akina interviews Ron Iwami and Tom Iwai....

Delays to asset sales have prompted credit ratings agencies to downgrade the company to junk....

Ember Shinn will stay with Caldwell Administration through March to assist with budget proposal, strategic development office....

...James Pflueger has been released from jail by State Prison Head Ted Sakai after serving 1.5 months of an already meager 7 month sentence he was given for 7 felony counts of manslaughter....

Friday, Nov. 28 and Saturday, Nov. 29, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Moanalua High School....

...the State Land Use Commission wrongfully amended the land use boundaries from "urban" back to to "agriculture" after $20M of construction was complete....

Arrivals by air from U.S. West were up 9.1%, US East up 7.7% ....

Judge Kurren found that the County’s Ordinance “is preempted by Hawaii state law” ....

Think That's Crazy? Wait Until You Hear How The Others Got Elected....

...In addition, there were some people who did not like the changes we needed to implement in order to create a culture of productivity, accountability and meritocracy....

...Over the past few weeks, I have been in touch with our many stakeholders, including concerned Party members, donors and candidates....

A prominent gay rights activist charged last week with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy ... has visited the White House more than a half-dozen times in the past two years....

"I look forward to the process to select a new chair."

...Hawaii income taxes cost a single parent of two children $272 at poverty level....

...generally are around 300 square feet and occupied by no more than two persons....

...The original proposal of 2,000 cows on site was modified in July 2014 to 650-699 cows....

...to address operational issues associated with high degrees of distributed solar penetration on electrical grids....

"In the past decade, Matson has invested nearly $1 billion in four new containerships...."

"...researchers are asking 11-year-olds whether they’ve had sex, how many partners they’ve had and if they’ve had anal sex...."

In Hawaii 215 people have assets in excess of $30M....

...Waters argues that the voting results suggest 128 ballots may have been miscounted out of the 37,178 cast....

But Hawaii is #1 for “highest percentage of the population spending more than they make”....

...every state receives a Report Card that grades the state on 41 key legislative components that must be addressed in a state’s laws....

...a confusing patchwork of different laws around the country, driving up the cost of food as much as $500 to every American family....

...the extremely wealthy establish various special interest groups dedicated to crafting draconian regulations in the name of the public good, tackling hot-button social issues, and riling the hopes of easily led ideologues....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

...The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC....

Under the TBOR, tax increases and significant government borrowing had to be presented to the voters before they could take effect....

Destruction of their crops would be an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, the farmers say....

... effective January 1, 2015, persons with disability parking permits will be charged the standard parking rate at city parking lots ....

In a hastily called faculty and staff meeting at the Cancer Center at about 2:30 p.m. Friday....

Hawaii’s state campaign spending commissioners want the Honolulu city prosecutor to investigate a case brought by former Gov. Ben Cayetano against Pacific Resource Partnership’s political action committee....

The team estimates the new system will reduce electricity usage by more than all of the utility scale photovoltaic systems currently operating in Hawaii....

5,454 individuals (38%) were continuing clients from FY 2013....

"...the Pono Choices survey instruments ... are part of an ongoing research project...."

"We actually share some important common goals with the Sovereignty activists."

...will lose their rural designation that allows acute care facilities within their boundaries to receive extra payments as critical access hospitals....

Senator Slom discusses  Police Reform with Prof Aaron Hunger....

...Hawaii taxpayers can now breathe easier because he was defeated in the Democratic primary....

...fight for an allocation model that allows tuition money to follow the students....

...Hawaii’s $30-billion unfunded liability per resident is $21,852, the seventh highest in the nation....

...to conduct a tour of the Army installations here to get a first-hand view of capabilities of the units....

We crunched the numbers using the six criteria below to determine if the state you live in is prime habitat for a downer of a Thanksgiving....

...Families are changing, with fewer married couples and more single-parent families and cohabiting unions....

...life amid the palm trees can cost, especially at quality nursing facilities and hospitals. Special needs transport is adequate, but work commutes are time-consuming....

...the number of states sharing teacher performance information with educator preparation programs has more than tripled....