Entries for August 2017

...Apo violated the State Ethics Code by using OHA resources, and his position with OHA, to advance his private business interests....

...a 1% increase in health care costs equals a $2 billion increase in unfunded liabilities....

...FTA is complicit.  That’s why it is likely to approve a Plan B that stops at Middle Street....

...Visitor spending statewide increased through the first seven months of 2017 (+8.9% to $9.95 billion)....

...to give Gregg an opportunity to show her awareness of her injuries had been delayed....

...While all eyes are on rail....

...There's a sucker born every minute....

...John Paul Jones detected and tracked a target missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai....

...The library recently finished cataloging and digitizing 1,400 boxes of materials it received in 2014. ...

...Elon Musk made lots of campaign contributions.  He expects to be repaid....

...McDermott said that, after talking to my family, friends, and members of the Ewa Beach community, the general consensus was that my voice was still needed to represent the residents of West Oahu....

...President Keli'i Akina Discusses Act’s Economic Impact, Reform at SBA Hearing....

...Burned Out: Is Your State Full of Overworked Doctors and Nurses?....

...The Court ruled the State holds an easement over the seawalls and is not liable for attorneys’ fees....

...Whatever the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, it will have a limited shelf life as the Supreme Court will take up the travel ban’s constitutionality on Oct. 10....

...Presidents Bush and Obama mocked the Antiquities Act’s limitation that monuments can only be designated on federal ‘land’ by designating huge ocean monuments....

...SB1 has been deleted from the WAM Hearing notice and replaced by SB4.... WAM Hearing Monday 3pm, Capitol Auditorium....

Senate Committee on Ways and Means to hold hearing Monday, August 28th beginning at 3pm...

...People who aren’t aware of what happened may find themselves with property tax bills many times what they are now....

...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....

..."Chapter 89, might not allow an appropriation be made during a Special Legislative Session"....

...If you retire with $1 million in Hawaii, you have just shy of a dozen years to ride out your savings....

“Matson signs contracts for a total of six new and upgraded cranes for Honolulu terminal” 

Hawaii lawmakers are finally embracing the call for a “deep dive” audit of the Honolulu rail project, but how they follow through on that embrace could make it all for naught....

...we were told that this was not a negotiation but a take it or leave it situation....

...HDOT recently expended hundreds of millions of dollars to install energy efficient lighting improvements at the State airports and commercial harbors....

...The State has asked the Intermediate Court of Appeals to affirm Judge Nacino’s decision to dismiss the case....

...Pasha Hawaii’s announcement is in direct response to Saltchuk Resources Inc.’s press release....

...there is, in fact, another feasible option: no tax increases at all....

...how much U.S. taxpayers deduct in home mortgage interest by county....

...According to the Center for American Progress....

...The senator also purports to somehow raise the payment rates that Medicaid doles out to hospital systems and physicians, but how he would do so remains unclear....

...buried in one of the technical reports that are referenced and made part of the FEIS so you would not be able to say they didn’t tell you....

...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....

...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project!....

...expedite the return of the 10,000 acres to the State of Hawaiʻi and pursue a new lease or land tenure for the reduced acreage that will support the continued viability of astronomical research....

...UH Manoa anti-GMO prof Hector Valenzuela curiously worked hard to hide part of his emails....

...College Choice Releases 2017 Rankings of the Best Colleges in Four Western States....

...to transform the community....

...Judge Fujino dismissed the case because plaintiffs cannot file suit directly in the circuit court challenging the application of a rule....

...about 30 percent of reported transactions involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report....

....2017’s Best & Worst Community Colleges....

...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....

...How Congress abets seaway robbery....

...In a week, lawmakers will be opening a special legislative session to determine how they are going to raise our taxes....

...US Vets provided transportation to its Waianae Civic Center shelter....

...it has not been easy going for Saleem Ahmed....

...the center's "planning committee will work to develop practice spaces focused on creating new narratives and new relationships while naming and honoring the ongoing pain and trauma wrought by belief in racial hierarchy, structural racism, and white privilege."....

It’s disheartening to see intelligent individuals on the political left like yourself continue to focus your efforts on this issue despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that indicates you are simply tilting at windmills....

...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....