Entries for May 2014

...We need to abide, throughout Hawaii, by the environmental and cultural regulations our state has enacted....

This year National Parents Organization of Hawaii introduced several bills related to addressing abuses of the Child Support Enforcement Agency....

"Sec. Shinseki's resignation, however, does not fix the underlying failures at the VA."

Cox tells how he has literally risked life and limb in the pursuit of the truth behind crime and cover-ups in Hawaii government....

...HSDC today announced the State of Hawaii’s $4.5 million commitment to Startup Capital Ventures II....

...there is no Constitutional theory which endorses an executive agency alone to conduct foreign relations with existing (and for that matter, former) sovereign nations....

“In New Zealand we are trying to make new geothermal power stations work, competing with other forms of generation at probably 7.5 cents per KWh."

Today the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled on Hanabusa v Honolulu, Colleen Hanabusa's fake effort to fight to close Waimanalo Gulch Landfill....

It was on this day in 1984 that the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 8-0 decision in Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff....

Pledges to oppose race-based nation plans and meet real needs of Hawaiians....

...I wrote to OHA on May 15 asking for a copy of the agenda and minutes of the meeting. They had 10 working days to reply....

For the first four months of 2014, total visitor expenditures fell 2.9 percent to $4.9 billion and total arrivals dropped 2.6 percent to 2,720,760 visitors....

If anyone is looking for evidence that Faleomavaega really has lost his mind, perhaps his reaction to the growing Veterans Affairs crisis is providing it....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

...6 million people have had their insurance policies canceled, and another 19 million are enrolled in private health plans that do not comply with the Affordable Care Act....

Among the candidates to represent District 41 in the state House are a convicted criminal who found God and two outspoken contenders who bring their own brand of controversy....

The investigation showed Aduja’s campaign issued $30,000 worth of checks to her former husband, Lee Williams.... Williams subsequently was arrested during a Chinatown drug bust....

The meeting, to be held at 10 a.m. at the OHA boardroom in Honolulu, will be streamed live on the Web....

...the Environmental Protection Agency, which will release its carbon-dioxide regulations for existing power plants on Monday....

...1,500 residential units in five towers will be the city’s first catalytic Transit Oriented Development project along the rail route....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

"A compelling spot..." -- Political Radar

Rudy was internationally known and respected for his war and peace modeling....

...Hawaii Shippers Council discussed its noncontiguous trades Jones Act reform proposal and related issues on Guam’s leading radio talk show....

"CitiBike has put out 6,000 bikes at 325 locations at a cost of $6,833 per bike."

Only some of each president’s speeches are billed as “major,” and today’s is one of them....

...there is only one region (Honolulu) in Hawaii that has records dating back "nearly a century"....

This would be an end-run around both Congress and the Constitution....

Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chair Colette Machado and Ka Pouhana/CEO Kamana'opono Crabbe issued a joint statement today commending the Obama Administration....

A Hawaii court decided Tuesday to dismiss most of a renewed lawsuit against two Oahu churches....

Three previously undiscovered announcements were titled “Procedures for Reorganizing the Native Hawaiian Community as an Indian Tribe.”....

• Senate: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: Water Projects - Conference Report
• House: NSA Metadata Collection - Passage
• House: Fiscal 2015 Defense Authorization - Passage

Children are crossing the border – and they’re doing it without their parents....

Flashback 2012: "Members, Donors Threaten to Resign as Sierra Club Oahu Group Votes to Back Rail"

The director of VA's Sierra Pacific Network, Sheila M. Cullen falsely claimed in "numerous official documents" that Bernard M. Baruch College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine awarded her a master's degree she never earned....

It has been just over seven months now that Faleomavaega continues to have been absent from public view....

I was at the airport with my family on Friday evening, when we noticed Schofield-based soldiers heading for Afghanistan....

For myself and many other veterans, Memorial Day is encapsulated in one unforgettable experience....

Yesterday, Hawaii Democrats held their state convention and speaker after speaker made solemn promises to continue the status quo of one-party rule....

NOTE: Flags to fly at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day....

...the only thing standing between the bill and the rest of us is Governor Abercrombie's veto pen....

“Go NON-GMO so you have a chance with a girl like Ryelee,” reads the caption to her picture....

Let’s use the discussion over this credit to help us all determine what time it is....

...the Interior Department has quietly launched “Procedures for Reorganizing the Native Hawaiian Community as an Indian Tribe” three times since 2012....

...proposed rule-making in order to, "solicit public comments on whether and how the Department of the Interior should facilitate the reestablishment of a government-to-government relationship with the Native Hawaiian community."...

What They're Really Trying To Save Explains How They Behaved....

The Jones Act no longer fulfills its intended purpose of maintaining a dependable marine fleet for national security and emergencies....

Last year’s tourism weakness continued in the first quarter of this year, and incremental gains for 2014 will be slight....