Entries for March 2017

The authors note that their recommendations are important as the healthcare system moves toward value-based payment....

...14,000 Hawaii voters sign petition against assisted suicide....

After burning $2B, the state received a pathetic $27.1 million in taxes from 150 companies tied to the High Technology Development Corporation....

Hawaii lawmakers would like us to believe that they are cutting the state budget in the current legislative session, but it’s not true....

...city officials feel they have been given the green light to get the project finished, whatever the eventual cost might be....

Question: How can we increase homelessness 100-fold?  

Answer: Make housing a right.

Dr. Deborah Nucatola, former Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood’s national operation  relocated to Hawaii as the abortion giant’s Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands medical director....

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii "is so way out – he's such a political hack . . . that I think even the Ninth Circuit will reverse him...."

...in response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network North America....

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is accepting community input through March 31...

...two Hua Kanu business loans, totaling $450,000, to Reliant Trucking Inc. and Goldwings Supply Service Inc....

...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....

The famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition....

HB100 HD1 SD1 proposes reducing the Governor’s budget request by $114 million in general funds over the biennium -- The House version reduced the Governor's increase in spending by $500M....

Just 20 out of more than 530,000 refugees settled in the United States since 2010 were brought to Hawaii....

Rates of youth disconnection are higher in rural counties than in urban counties....

...Two Strategies That Could Compromise The Audit & Who Might Want That To Happen....

...the average daily census rose 4.9 percent to 240,382 visitors per day....

...The Governor did, at least, stop short of calling it his “Five Year Plan”....

On October 31st, 2016, the TIO Board of Directors selected the ‘Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos’ (ORM), in La Palma, on the Canary Islands (Spain) as the alternate site for TMT....

On February 24, AP reporters Vivian Salama and Alicia Caldwell published an AP “exclusive”: “DHS report disputes threat from banned nations.”....

If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....

...contrasting state and local tax collections with the quality of the services residents receive....

...DHHL granted an exclusive license “in perpetuity” to Criminal Al Hee.  Now he's in prison....

...this project started with a rock solid $5.3 billion projection cost....

...Avg Annual Wage for Physicians (adj for cost of living) – 50th....

People with years or decades to live may qualify for assisted suicide....

...request that the President remove fishing prohibitions within the Marine National Monuments in the U.S. Pacific Islands....

...this study appeared to be an outgrowth of a move by our teachers’ union....

...Bully Bill Advances Out of Health Committee....

The action followed a Thursday report in the Washington Times revealing that Cronin had signed a letter in March 2016 along with 121 other former Republican national security officials opposing Trump's presidential bid....

Charli Scott, was five months pregnant with their unborn child when she was killed....

The budget proposal calls for anticipated revenues of $720.3 million....

Defending Hawaii must be a priority for the Trump administration, Congress, and the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency....

Mass legalization of assisted suicide is not inevitable....

When Governor Ige first announced his plan to double local food production, people wondered....

...the Honolulu rail boondoggle, Hoopili traffic impacts, smart city street intersections and rapid transit with Panos Prevedouros....

...Trustee Keli‘i Akina appointed to chair audit committee....

“Deaths of despair” in midlife rose most dramatically for white non-Hispanic Americans with a high school degree or less and more on the Sister Isles than on Oahu....

...Ms. Tupola said, “Every single past leader has told me, ‘You won’t succeed unless you fix the party.’’’....

...looking for the "real" motive behind a government action seems an awful lot alike to us? Our old friend, pretext in eminent domain....

...He even gave notice....

The information provided will be used directly in the planning of upcoming hunting seasons....

Seven People Cited So Far During Cleanup & Enforcement Operation....

"Ultimately, it will be up to Democrats to decide if they want to accept me or not...."

Maybe the Hawaii DoE will stop suing disabled children now?

This coming Thursday, March 23, 2017, at 10:00 AM....

By voluntarily filing an EIS for his dairy farm on Kauai, Omidyar has now brought about a court ruling for the first time ever mandating EIS for farmers statewide....

...Chin announced today that the state of Hawaii has moved to convert the temporary restraining order issued last week by Hawaii federal judge Derrick K. Watson....

Applying campaign statements when interpreting law “sows chaos,” said Judge Alex Kozinski, who has been on the 9th Circuit since 1985....