Entries for December 2012

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Monday, January 7 at their introductory luncheon at the Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island from 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m....

The interim appointment fills a new seat in compliance with Act 139 of the 2012 Legislature, which increased Hawaii Paroling Authority members from three to five.

No public testimony will be accepted....

NOTICE OF INFORMATIONAL BRIEFING SCHEDULE January 3-18, 2013

A half-century into the War on Poverty, liberals can hardly declare victory. But they can claim the dominant anti-poverty narrative: Fight poverty by spending more....

With protesters unleashing their fury on Abercrombie’s Public Lands Development Corporation, political insiders have been scheming.  And on December 28, they quietly announced their plan....

On January 1, regardless of the outcome of fiscal cliff negotiations, Americans will be hit with a $1 trillion Obamacare tax hike....

...a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home....

On January 11 & 12, 2013, I Aloha Molokai is hosting our second annual Alternative Energy Festival....

I will be filing additional resolutions today before my term officially ends on January 2nd, at noon....

Next step the Ninth Circuit?

As a result of being the beneficiary of such generous bounty from the federal government, Hawaii really has not had to face head on the fact that it is a poor place to do business....

Jesse Broder Van Dyke – Director of Communications....

"The proliferation and use of unpermitted kayak rentals being conducted at Napoopoo have resulted in concerns .... " 

Hawai`i residents join nearly 6,500 others nationwide in saying no to the wind PTC ....

The managers who made this year’s list of America’s Worst Bosses were named in workplace lawsuits filed by their employees ....

Judge Ochiai, 57, will fill a vacancy left by Judge Richard Pollack, who became Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court....

The U.S. Department of Education releases first-year progress reports for the 12 winners of the Race to the Top grant....

The report’s recommendations come after a series of meetings between state government officials, private sector leaders and non-profit representatives....

Angry comments were plastered on Abercrombie's Facebook page following the announcement of his decision Wednesday, with some predicting he would be a one-term governor....

Senate Vice President Donna Mercado Kim (Sen. District 14) has been selected as the President of the Senate ....

In the past year, regulators drafted rules that addressed everything from caloric intake to dishwasher efficiency....

Judge Tashima issued his final ruling yesterday and that allows us to at last appeal both this ruling and the others that he has made over the 19 months that this case has taken....

Plans are underway to establish an additional Office of the Lt. Governor on Maui....

...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....

The nine-member Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force today presented its findings and recommendations to the Hawaiʻi Legislature....

Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald today appointed Kevin A. Souza to the District Family Court of the First Circuit (Oahu). 

...just days left for President Obama and lawmakers in Congress to avert a major tax hike, sequestration, and other major policy changes....

“This does not make any logical/political sense, so therefore it must be personal.” --Washington Post

Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....

Matson will continue to provide service to Reef's historical core trade lanes from Auckland, New Zealand and Fiji to the island nations of Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu, Tarawa and Majuro ....

...it will administer college and career readiness assessments to all middle and high school students statewide in grades 8, 9, 10 and 11 beginning next spring....

Inouye's chief of staff, Jennifer Sabas, says despite the disappointment, Inouye's office wishes Schatz "the best of luck."

"For me, personally, I believe global climate change is real, and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation," Schatz said.

"The lesson for everybody is you don't want your town to turn into this."

...will increase the average cost of a new car by $3,000 by 2025....

Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks is speaking January 6-9 at events throughout Hawaii.

Heritage will be entering a new chapter with the new year. Not only will we celebrate our 40th anniversary, we will have new leadership as Senator Jim DeMint succeeds Edwin J. Feulner as president in April....

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar....

With time running out for President Obama and Congress to reach an agreement, this Christmas Eve we bring to you 2012 twist on Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem....

"Our Hawai'i has never faced such a precarious position on Capitol Hill"

Of course, we disagreed later over how to ensure Hawaii's representation in the Senate in a post-Inouye world, and that cost me dearly....

The fight between Hanabusa and Hirono over Inouye’s seat is the latest flare-up of the battle between old-boys and progressives within the Democratic Party....

• Blake v. County of Kauai Planning Comm'n,
• Kanahele v. Maui County Council

The notion that religion belongs in the realm of governance has its origins in the host culture, said Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies....

In Hawaii, hunting has had a long tradition that for political reasons is being eradicated....

...this year the tax scramble is not so much for shifting income and deductions from one tax year to the next as much as it is about getting one’s solar energy device installed....

...first joint enforcement action against a nationwide debt-relief services company that illegally charged advance fees for its services....

No taxpayer money will be used for construction, operation or maintenance....