Entries for July 2016

...Qualified Hawaii residents may now register and vote on the same day, at Early Walk-In Locations....

...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....

...Kirk Caldwell has done everything possible to evade questioning and withhold the details of the rail project....

The special treatment applies only to subcontractors....

At the rate Hawaii is spending and taxing, projected budgets will only be sustainable for two more years....

...kabuki theater aimed at baffling and confusing union members to make it look like their union bosses are actually doing something for them when they’re not....

Officials in Maui County are set to impose stringent standards upon short-term housing permitting while serving Airbnb hosts with harsh civil penalties....

Against all odds....

...on track to burn almost 10 million gallons less oil than it did in 2006....

One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....

...projects and initiatives by Hawaiian Electric to significantly increase its production of renewable energy by the end of the decade....

...A Caucasian woman came up to my dad as he was working on the field and started yelling at him that he was poisoning her....

$3,273,533 in funding from two grant programs to 13 Hawaii companies to help support development of new products....

June 2016 Arrivals Up 4.2 Percent, Expenditures Gained 4.3 Percent....

...Ing claims a long-running conspiracy is out to get him....

...vote for OHA Trustees in the August 13 Primary....

Rats’ blood vessels took at least three times longer to recover function after only a minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke....

Now showing on Oahu, Maui, and Big Island....

"...there might be needles and other hazardous materials in here, so we don’t want people reaching in...."

“I was elected an independent,” Sanders told reporters at a Bloomberg-hosted breakfast the morning after....

... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....

The statutory deadline for candidates to file their financial disclosure statements with the Hawaii State Ethics Commission was Friday, July 22, 2016....

...Horizon Line Inc. covered up unsafe conditions on the Jones Act containership HORIZON TRADER employed in the Puerto Rico trade....

"This plainly is the outgrowth of industry lobbying to get CBP to take Jones Act enforcement more seriously."

...the combined federal, state, and local rate paid by the taxpayer on capital gains income....

Registered To Vote On Oahu? - Hawaiian Or Not, This Message Is For You....

The most expensive nationwide is Honolulu, where coffee costs an average of $7.56....

The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....

You would think that posting care home inspections online would have been easy....

Rep Tulsi Gabbard speech nominating Sen Bernie Sanders for President at Democratic National Convention July 26, 2016....

Letter to Obama from Sen Akaka, Gov Cayetano, and Gov Ariyoshi ....

...at $6,000 per resident, the burden of Hawaii’s pension shortfalls is among the highest in the nation....

There are less police officers on the streets today per person than there were in the 1990’s....

There is a clear pattern....

A Message from State Senator Sam Slom:  From time to time there is a candidate who is really worth supporting....

These meetings are part of the ongoing outreach effort in the updating of the Strategic Plan....

She’s a lawmaker who has a soft spot for dictatorial regimes....

...assessing the financial health of the state general fund as a result of key decisions made by the legislative and executive branches during the 2016 legislative session....

This week our City government mailed two very important documents:  your property tax bill and your absentee ballot....

...researchers claim that much of the collection is inaccessible....

Caldwell promised that rail is 'fully paid for.'  But yesterday....

...there were multiple days where no deposit or revenue was recorded....

...in Hawaii, parents aren’t allowed to send their children to a different school unless they get a rare district exemption....

...a tax bill that tries to reverse progress made toward fairness and taxpayer rights....

Average debt for 2015 UH Law School graduates who took out loans to pay for their legal education was $54,988....

The deadline to submit proposals is 4 p.m. on August 19, 2016....

...why it's so expensive to cool Hawaii schools....

When politics start to affect public health and well being, there’s a major problem....

...the company improperly enrolled several thousand Hawaii customers as eligible for enhanced Tribal support reimbursements....