Entries for July 2013

It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....

The Examiner used the Census Bureau's 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll to rank every U.S. city with a population of 200,000 or more....

Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) this morning received notification from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) that its Race to the Top (RTTT) grant is no longer considered “high-risk”....

• Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates – Passage
• House: Defense Appropriations – NSA Phone Record Collection Amendment
• House: Defense Appropriations—Final Passage
• House: Coal Ash Regulations – Passage

The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....

As much as an additional 12 cents/kilowatt hour could be added to each HECO bill on O`ahu, just for the undersea cable, according to an Integrated Resource Planning Final Report filed recently with the PUC....

...community forum on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in the Queen’s Conference Center Auditorium....

it may in fact require everyone who wears or eats or sells a GMO food or other product to register with the county and pay a fee....

In addition to the fees and charges levied for these required permits and licenses, there is the time that it takes to secure many of these permits and licenses....

Correcting the misinformation being spread by special interest groups about how we farm....

The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there....

Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries....

Visitors who came to Hawai‘i in June 2013 spent a total of $1.3 billion, an increase of 7 percent from June 2012....

Sue and Settle process has left Hawaii burdened with an EPA mandated ‘Regional Haze’ plan which forces human emitters to make up for emissions from Kilauea Volcano....

The same author in 2011 made the same type of claims in the run-up to Civil Unions....

...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....

Tracking the success of the plan will be coordinated with the state Office of Information Management and Technology....

Caldwell announced today the selection of veteran transportation planner Harrison Rue as the Administrator of the City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Program....

...create a limited exemption from the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act allowing foreign-built ships to transport bulk cargoes the domestic Puerto Rico trade...

1. Obamacare is going great.
2. I cut the deficit in half.
3. Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.

The feedstock for the biofuel is anticipated to be woody biomass-based....

Renewable fuel credit prices rose to record highs recently, reigniting the debate over repealing the federal government's ethanol mandate....

Jacksonville, Florida, brings in coal from Colombia rather than West Virginia.....

The airline industry, whose largest expense is fuel, is also behind the structural change in the legislation that would allow foreign-made vessels to transport on U.S. waters....

As Native Hawaiians and residents of Hawai‘i, we take serious offense at your public attack upon a local fisherman for catching ahi....

"...make the investment ... now...."

States with more homeowners and businesses “going solar” share these policies....

On our international routes we are seeing the strengthening of the dollar undermine some of the excellent results we have had in the last couple of years but this portion of our business remains the core focus of our expansion plans....

There are plenty of people out there telling us what we should eat—and worse, trying to use public policy to make us live by their opinions....

fraud has flown under the radar. And as sales have boomed and the stakes have risen, the scale of deception has broadened....

Obama says he’s ready to get back to the “kitchen table” issues after months of focusing on gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and other tangents....

As billionaire Larry Ellison makes gestures....

Board of Regents has identified Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner as Interim President of the university and will vote on the appointment at a special board meeting July 30....

With a vote of 7-0, the Hawaiian Homes Commission voted to amend its long-standing revocable permit (RP) program....

“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....

Here are some short key points regarding the impact of the decisions....

...the institution of marriage is morphing into a whole new thing....

"...the budget includes new spending on program enhancements that could eventually result in fiscal pressure...."