Entries for 'Andrew Walden'

Senate: 21-3-0-1 / House: 26-10-13-2

...The Senate says 'yes' to marijuana and 'no' to anti-GMO protesters....

Senate 21-4 : House 39-12

...HB321, SD2 proposes a 15% gross proceeds tax and a 10% special sales tax on so-called 'medical' marijuana sold in Hawaii....

This looks more like Mark's excellent adventure....

...this type of rent-seeking activity is at the root of Hawaii’s high cost of living and lack of economic diversity....

...details for the House Finance Committee to work out in a hearing now set for Wednesday April 8 at 2pm in room 308....

Na'i Aupuni won't be told what to do by OHA.  And the contractors won't be told what to do by Na'i Aupuni....

Trustees have been drawing down the OHA Trust fund by amounts ranging from $5M to $30M per year every year since 2005....

"...Failure to comply with this regulation will result in disciplinary action...."

Kawika Burgess, who has been OHA’s chief operating officer since October 2013, is stepping down effective April 30th....

"... you may currently enjoy the privilege of occupying a seat, you do not own it - it does not belong to you.  Show some respect to the people who put you there ...."

...Kanaiolowalu's spending of OHA's rapidly depleting Trust is in excess of $4M.  But now, thanks to Grassroot Institute's open records request, we can discover where the money went....

Contracts with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) reveal hundreds of thousands of dollars in Kanaiolowalu “consulting” fees paid in 2012 and 2013 to Dwyer and Wong....

"...the very discussion we are having now is illegal...." -- OHA Trustee Peter Apo January 14, 2015

This is all part of a scheme hatched by two lawyers famous for helping OJ Simpson get off on his 1994 double murder rap in Los Angeles....

"...my goal is to elevate our status as a Board of Trustees...."

...Upset by their Board of Directors' January 17, 2015 decision to join in the push for creation of a fake Indian Tribe, Hawaiian Civic Club members February 20, 2015 filed an internal complaint....

...If approved, non-profits directed by Grace, the Paradise Lua porta-potty magnate who beat the rap for the 1999 Aloha Stadium porta-potty fire bombings, would be eligible for millions of dollars to fund proposals such as the "Paradise Ohana Heart and Vascular Center, Inc."....

...the proposed laws could actually increase obesity by increasing poverty....

...Tulsi Gabbard has quietly hired an identified associate of the Chris Butler Cult as her new Chief of Staff....

Under SB358, gas will be taxed more heavily than oil....

If approved, Hawaii taxpayers could find themselves providing $44M in loan guarantees to an Indian company's jet fuel deal in England....

UPDATE: HB1253 has been deferred. SB727 passed with amendments....

...their projects “are not obligated to physically deliver electricity.”...

What is missing on the conservative side is leadership....

Tom Lodge of the Hawaii Hunting Association is providing a list of hunting-related bills....

Will the trio of English, Keith-Agaran, and Shimabukuro be able to carry OHA's ball now that it has been dropped by Galuteria, Hee, and Solomon?

If the Legislature fails to grant MMMC permission to negotiate a partnership agreement with HPH and MMMC goes bankrupt, this interview will be the smoking gun....

Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....

In total, Crabbe's memo budgets $2,598,546 for "Consortium" and another $407,332 for the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission.  None of this is mentioned in HB209....

...it's been at least a decade since I or any agent or broker prepared a time line or ordered a condo doc....

...current admin budgeting format and procedures create an open checkbook under various program areas....

All of the problems sister isle medical patients face trace back to Randy Perreira's need to keep his pathetic little union presidency job....

Setting the stage as the executives walked in, the Hawaiian flag flew upside down outside HHSC's Leahi Hospital....

Without the six-month extension, Medicaid providers in Hawaii would have suffered a 48 percent pay cut....

After Apoliona's alleged cronies were allegedly finished, one of OHA CEO Kamanao Crabbe's cronies allegedly took a turn....

There are at least two class action suits filed against the HEI-NextEra merger....

UPDATE Dec 31: Rep Beth Fukumoto Chang has been elected Minority Leader and Rep Andria Tupola has been elected Floor Leader....

The balancing of million-dollar mortgages on inverse absolutes--paradise and illegality--produces a hyper-sensitive fear-and-hate-inspired psychology....

...Dr. George J. Petruncio described the cuts as a “bait and switch” move....

"...Defendants, pursuant to Hawaii law, selected this appointee through a process that ignores the Seventeenth Amendment...."

"Lindsey’s request for censorship is denied."