Entries for 'Andrew Walden'

For over a year, Hawaiian Electric has been claiming that the "green infrastructure fee" now beginning to appear on electric bills statewide is not a rate hike....

Does this mean the Ige administration will break from the HSTA and propose a publicly funded voucher program so we can all give taxpayer money to private schools?

Two new House Republicans elected.  Anti-GMO initiative wins on Maui ....

A $150M Hawaii subprime lending scheme is receiving an “AAA-“ rating from Fitch because repayment is guaranteed by a surcharge on your electric bill....

PLDC and Kakaako Makai were just a warmup exercise....

If approved, this would be the largest rate hike in recent HMSA history....

...Coburn's newly released “2014 Wastebook” has only one sad and lonely reference to federal spending on “silly, unnecessary, and low priority projects” in Hawaii....

Maui Weekly competed with Maui Time which continues to publish an independent bi-weekly print newspaper on Maui....

...it almost worked, until Goldman Sachs taught them all the meaning of "preferred stock"....

"...The State Ethics Code does not prohibit legislators from introducing or voting on legislation...that affects their non-state employment interests...."

...Galuteria landed a lucrative position as "Director, Community and Civic Engagement" with the Pelatron Center for Economic Development headed by OHA Trustee Robert K. Lindsey, Jr....

Seabright's order enjoins against Hawaii's current ban on resident aliens owning firearms....

Cult members laboring for the Imam under "Tuzuk contracts" are obligated to kick back all of their salaries beyond a bare minimum needed to survive....

Ige, Chun-Oakland, and Fukunaga were the three bitter-enders holding out for the full $791M in GE Tax hikes....

Even weeks after angry kupuna and union members began crowding committee hearings to protest, Takai voted 'aye' for the pension tax bill HB1092 HD1....

...find your state representative and determine how he or she voted every time the pension tax was up...

...Online registration is available and will remain open until a few weeks prior the election....

...Waihe‘e also contracted Dennis Dwyer for a total of $1.3 million dollars to be Kana‘iolowalu’s federal lobbyist....

The following letter has been sent out to all HHSC employees....

"I'm not convinced, especially with what happened with the Department of Interior hearings, that there is consensus...."

David Ige may have been afraid of the video, but hundreds of other people weren’t as a standing-room only lunchtime crowd packed the downtown Honolulu Pacific Club for today's Grassroot Institute gubernatorial forum....

...With Puna voting completed and 800 mail-in absentee votes 'found' on Maui....

On Kauai, pro-GMO mayor Bernard Carvalho crushed anti-GMO candidate Dustin Barca, leader of the so-called "Kauai Rising" protests....

...With Abercrombie out of the picture, education reform advocates can reinterpret the rules for vouchers to open the door to church preschools....

"You have mentioned this frequently as a reason for loss of confidence in me from you and the Board."

...Ige over Abercrombie 49-39% and Schatz over Hanabusa 45-34%....

With two counts, the total federal incarceration for OHA Trustees could add up to 10 years....

"Witnesses say that the suspect ran from the police earlier that day, for allegedly not having license plates or a driver’s license...."

One thing is certain ... the “organic governing documents” don’t need to be approved by a majority vote....

A May, 2014 TRO filed by SORT Kalaeloa Raceway operator George Grace III against fellow Kalaeloa DHHL industrial tenant Mark Aiwohi....

When the people are nearly 100% against that for which the political class is nearly 100% in favor there is a lesson in political cowardice for all who wish to learn it....

"I, Liliuokalani Dominis, do solemnly swear in the presence of Almighty God that I will support the Constitution, Laws and Government of the Republic of Hawaii...."

...when the Managing Director appeared before the Commission ... her comments focused on the employee grievances that might result from finding that personnel had misused City resources....

...plaintiffs sued alleging First Amendment violations after the HPD allegedly removed Second Amendment activists' Facebook comments from an HPD Facebook page....

One could tell this morning's hearings weren't going to go well for the Akaka Tribe when the first question from the audience was, "Under what authority do you have jurisdiction here?"....

In December, 2009, then-Representative Neil Abercrombie introduced an amendment to the Akaka Bill HR2314 which marked a sharp departure from previous versions....

...even a failed grab for federal money has apparently been enough for CNHA to turn DHHL and OHA inside out....

...twelve candidates have no challenger....

Today the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled on Hanabusa v Honolulu, Colleen Hanabusa's fake effort to fight to close Waimanalo Gulch Landfill....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

NOTE: Flags to fly at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day....

...the Interior Department has quietly launched “Procedures for Reorganizing the Native Hawaiian Community as an Indian Tribe” three times since 2012....

The Hawaii Office of Elections has released its candidate report for the week ending May 23, 2014....

"...we wrote to our congressional delegation and were told, in no uncertain terms, that we would not be able to secure it...."

GOP Candidates were center stage at the Hawaii Republican Party State Convention at Kaneohe's Koolau Ballroom Saturday....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending May 16, 2014....

"The stakes are far too high for OHA to proceed...." -- Crabbe