Entries for 'News Release'

26,010 individuals enrolled in Medicaid between Summer 2013 and April 2014....

Hawaii Appleseed has released a report, “Hawai‘i’s Affordable Housing Crisis: The High Cost of Our Affordable Housing Shortfall,”....

...After reviewing 245 measures passed by the 2014 Hawaii State Legislature, Abercrombie today notified legislators of his decision to veto seven bills and to allow six bills to become law without his signature....

The city is preparing a request for proposal to form a public-private-partnership that will replace all 51,700 city streetlights with LEDs....

With increased numbers of unmarried couples, single parents, broken marriages, and couples who choose to delay or forgo childbirth....

$88 million in energy financing statewide....

The deadline to register to vote in this year's Primary Election is this Thursday, July 10th....

...nepotism and preferential treatment that could have been mitigated if the Department had implemented the Commission’s instructions from a prior investigation of the same situation....

SORT does not have a rental agreement. A demand to vacate the premises has been delivered. No one is authorized to occupy the property and therefore any racing activity thereon is also unauthorized.....

Bill Would Require Congressional Approval for Marine Monument Declarations....

...In 2013, the state spent $199,000 a year for each bed at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility (HYCF), yet 75 percent of youth released from HYCF were re-adjudicated or convicted as an adult within three years....

individuals looking to serve the public should apply for state board or commission openings that will occur as Senate Bill 2682 takes effect on July 8....

The First Circuit Court of Hawaii will have to decide whether employers in the state have a legal obligation to preserve an employee’s original position indefinitely ....

In another first, Gov. Neil Abercrombie today at Hilo Yacht Club enacted measures....

The filings launch FIRE’s new Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project, a national effort to eliminate unconstitutional speech codes through targeted First Amendment lawsuits....

...For all OPR combined, the prescribing rate in Alabama was 2.7 times the rate in Hawaii....

This year, the state says project enrollment is about 10,500. Last year, enrollment was about 16,600....

...Abercrombie today sent a letter to Senate President Donna Mercado Kim and House Speaker Joe Souki stating that he will let the measure become law without his signature....

Abercrombie today signed House Bill 2590 (Act 166), a measure that will allow voter registration at absentee polling places beginning in 2016 and late voter registration, including on Election Day, beginning in 2018....

dozens rallied Saturday at the capitol to promote voter registration in churches and to defend religious freedom....

A published analysis by a senior political reporter for the Honolulu Star-Advertiser rates Andria Tupola as the GOP’s best young prospect....

...the agreement would cost $32 million over two years, a cost that needs to be approved by the Legislature.....

Brower has lost the confidence of the groups and individuals who once supported him....

Under the most severe scenario, Schofield would lose about 16,000 employees, leaving 2,441 on base....

Two separate polls recently released show Duke Aiona as the clear choice for Hawai‘i voters....

...This is just an example of the "same old, same old," where the Governor and his appointees get to wield power with a distinct lack of public scrutiny....

Year-over-year growth in the residential sector (60%) outpaced the overall U.S. market (41%) for the first time....

IDEA mandates that the Department must take specific actions, which can include requiring the state to prepare a corrective action plan, enter into a compliance agreement or, ultimately, withholding a portion of the state’s funding....

...he must either veto or sign by July 8, 2014, or allow them to become law without his signature....

“It took 4 years to add 2 lanes to the old 4-lane Kalanianaole Highway while at the same time paving 6 lanes...."

...Tom Brower's use of state money to buy the sledgehammer that he used to smash the shopping carts of the homeless is a story that just won't die...

An “open” endorsement means the union does not endorse a candidate....

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today signed....

No other VA site is over 100 days, the next-worst is Fayetteville, NC with a 91-day wait time for new patients....

This document has a comment period that ends in 60 days (08/19/2014)....

We ask all those who are not already registered to fill out a voter registration application, which will be made available to you at Mass the weekend of June 21/22....

...a lawsuit was filed in February of this year by four companies that would be directly impacted, challenging the legality of the new law....

“Six more members of board of directors for the Hawaii Health Connector will vacate June 30 leaving the board without a quorum.  It is a perfect time to replace it with a solution that is more appropriate for the state of Hawai’i."

...the Department of Community Services will soon be able to begin the implementation of an ambitious plan to use a historically high amount of funding as expeditiously as possible to make a marked, immediate difference on Oahu’s homelessness crisis....

The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Rhode Island, followed by Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey....

Another Back Door Deal Has Now Been Revealed.  We've Solved Who's Involved & Have The Facts On This Inside Contract....

First Hearing Monday, June 23 -- Honolulu – 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Hawaii State Capitol Auditorium....

"...Brower abused the power of his position last year by using legislative office funds to purchase a sledgehammer which he subsequently used in raids to destroy shopping carts used by the homeless...."

...in the not-too-distant future all of America’s tuna will be caught by foreign vessels....

Meanwhile in Hawaii: Cayetano vs PRP: You're corrupt so you have no right to say I'm corrupt....

...preserving the United States' right to prosecute straw purchasers of firearms....

Statewide, 16.9% of public HS students had seriously considered attempting suicide during the 12 months before the survey....

Both are interim appointments subject to state Senate approval....

Corruption increases and distorts spending by U.S. states....