Entries for 'News Release'

...the state has seen an overall improvement in proficiency levels with 79% of fourth graders reading below proficiency in 2003 compared to 70% in 2013....

HUD determined that the city’s median income for a household of four is $82,600, down from $86,300 last year....

...after five years of promises, what do we have to show for it?....

Let’s make this a year of action....

Hawaii P-­‐20 Council established a goal for 55 percent of Hawaii’s working age adults to have a two-­‐ or four-­‐year college degree by the year 2025....

While there has been a lot of discussion about Monsanto, there seems to be little understanding about our operations and what we do....

The nominating committee for the state Commission on Water Resource Management (Water Commission) is still accepting applications for one (1) position on the commission....

This Wednesday, January 29, the House Committee on Water and Land is scheduled to hear several important hunting bills....

...for the impending vacancy in the judicial office of the Associate Justice, Supreme Court, State of Hawaiʻi upon the mandatory retirement of Associate Justice Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. in March 2014.... 

The meeting to discuss the East Kapolei and UH-West Oahu rail stations is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 28, at the Kapolei Middle School....

Mr. Damas was arrested at the Halawa Correctional Facility where he was employed as an adult corrections officer....

$9,694,000 – Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (NELHA) Frontage Road and New Intersection Connections, Hawaii Island – Construction of a 0.8-mile frontage road....

...Along with our own State Representative Beth Fukumoto, the Daily Beast website named Colonel McSally as one of the "Nine Women Remaking the Right."...

KIUC has charged $10.27 a month to customers who choose not to use a wireless smart meter....

Senator Hee introduced a bill to “generally” reenact Hawaii’s Shield Law.  So has Senator Ihara and a host of others....

Initial mentions of the economy, the recession, budget deficits and jobs have fallen from a high of 52% in 2010 to just 22% at the end of 2013....

During this quarter, the status of the Office of the City Auditor projects is as follows....

Students, parents, teachers and community leaders across Hawaii will rally this week in support of school choice at 30 “School Choice Week” events across the Aloha State....

...the administration filed a proposed ordinance seeking approval for a new Request for Proposals....

...the facility will reopen at 8 a.m. tomorrow, Saturday, January 25....

Xtreme Power...announced today that it filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11....

A total of 17,609 solar installations with more than 129 megawatts capacity were added....

Three states had union membership rates over 20.0 percent in 2013: New York (24.4 percent), Alaska (23.1 percent),and Hawaii (22.1 percent)....

The bill also discontinues the requirements for the minimum number of student instructional hours effective at the end of the 2014-2015 school year....

SB 2982 proposes a constitutional amendment to exclude certain retirement benefits from income taxation....

Please contact members of the House Committee on Water and Land and respectfully urge them to support House Bill 1907....

Annual Economic Cost Due to Motor Vehicle Crashes in Hawaii: $655 Million....

...NOAA has quietly elevated its tsunami warning center in Alaska by relegating its Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii to secondary status....

There are thousands of ICAC leads in the state of Hawaii trafficking in sadistic images and videos of children being raped and tortured....

...how we can move the aerospace industry forward in Hawaii....

Beginning in fiscal year 2015, the distribution of tobacco settlement funds for tobacco prevention and control will return to 6.5 percent after being redirected into the general fund to offset budget deficits for the past several years....

...the first in the nation to have a statewide, pedestrian-only focus....

The Kuakini project is part of Metrus' $75 million commitment to the White House's Better Buildings Challenge....

Areas Where the Transformation Effort Fell Short in 2013....

In 2011 Colleen worked with Senator Akaka and the rest of the delegation to author and introduce the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act....

...a “glaring problem” with Mr. Asquith’s motion was that it did not include the PUC....

We must address the unfunded liabilities of public employees before we can truly begin talking about a surplus in the budget....

...approved fees were charged for services before the services existed....

The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) Nominating Committee has confirmed 11 candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 8, 2014....

HECO enjoys full revenue decoupling, fuel and purchased power pass-through recovery, rates based on forward test years...and recovery of increases in certain operating expenses and capital investments between rate cases through riders....

I believe we may be able to reduce taxes in key areas....

... why should an ever-expanding list of business risks be transferred from the utility to its customers? ....

...five bills aimed at recognizing the impact of hunting on Hawaii’s outdoor heritage and focusing on ways to help strengthen and improve hunting activities....

Sound financial management required making tough decisions and hard choices. All with NO furloughs** (this is a lie, Abercrombie continued Furloughs, renamed as DLWOP Days)....

... each year OHA submits a package of proposed bills to the Hawaii State Legislature, and the agency’s Board of Trustees also votes to take positions on a wide variety of legislation ....

This is the first combined House-Senate Majority package since 2008....

HSLDA advocates in state legislatures, at the invitation of state homeschool organizations....

Recipients are automatically renewed for another year if they don't respond to the annual query....

AARP Hawaii will ask lawmakers to support a bill requiring hospitals to formally acknowledge a patient’s family caregiver at the time of admission ....