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This all began in Hawaii in 2011 when Act 195 was passed....

...the Obama Interior Department’s proposed regulation would be contrary to laws against racial discrimination and would be an unconstitutional end-run around Congress, which has repeatedly rejected legislation granting tribal status to Native Hawaiians....

...Department of Health (DoH) officials faced scathing rebukes for doing their job well....

... states with low levels of support tend to have higher per capita tax collections and populations with lesser reliance on federal assistance ....

One hundred and fifty years ago the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished....

The nine teachers who are suing their union in Friedrichs v. CTA are doing so because they believe that many union stances taken in collective bargaining are bad for public schoolteachers and bad for the children they teach....

“We are not doing enough” to educate Samoan students in math and science....

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration volunteers, who shot the video, called police and told them he was "sitting next to the seal and possibly was harassing the seal,"....

"the university could look to what Oyama said as an indication of what he would do once certified."

For California, the passport requirement is set to take effect May 10 ....

This Thursday night, millions of Americans will celebrate the New Year with close friends, good food, and champagne....

Hawaii's Green Energy Market Securitization program (GEMS) financed with $145 million in bonds....

Our rent vs. buy metric is especially tight for young prospective buyers....

A federal jury on Tuesday found the state of Hawaii and the Hawaii Department of Transportation's airports division violated a former employee's civil rights....

Smugness and happy talk about sustainability aren’t working anymore....

...require Nai Aupuni to get a court’s official clearance under the Federal Voting Rights Act before they take any further steps....

The push for a tribe has always been the agenda of an entrenched elite....

Plaintiffs outline possible responses to the Nai Aupuni Oprah Aha....

Star-Advertiser is calling for new laws when existing laws aren’t enforced by the state....

Honolulu residents Roxayne Spruance and Leimomi Dierks brought the suit on Dec. 8 against the United States Soccer Federation, Stadium Authority of the state of Hawaii ....

'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....

...spending per privately insured beneficiary in the highest spending HRR (Napa, CA) was $5,515.95, more than three times as high as spending in the lowest spending HRR (Honolulu, HI), which spent $1,707.38 per person....

With more than half of all adults in the U.S. being single....

Hawaii’s tax on Internet access, as well as those of six other states and their localities, will end by mid-year of 2020 if a congressional plan to permanently ban taxes on Internet access makes its way to the president’s desk....

...The number of homeless residents per capita is highest in Honolulu....

In July, 2015, chaos erupts at the progressive NetRoots Nation conference in Phoenix, Arizona....

Medicare will lower all its payments to the penalized hospitals by 1 percent over the course of the federal fiscal year, which runs through September 2016....

...nearly a third of all annual giving taking place in December....

The FEC claims authority over regulating press coverage of elections....

To make matters worse, both of the OHA Employees have also run for a seat in past OHA Board of Trustees elections....

Memo to candidates for Congress next year:  If you are seeking signatures for your nominating petition, you might start in the DOE director's office....

...the vote on this emergency injunction application was 5-4, with Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissenting....

TASC’s efforts in defense of NEM in Hawaii have incurred a similar response....

In the wake of a violent tragedy, Planned Parenthood has redoubled its efforts to silence its critics....

...Gabbard suggested that Obama’s decision to place American fighter jets equipped “to target Russian planes” on the border between Turkey and Syria, and his stated opposition to Russian-backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, could lead the U.S. into a nuclear war....

The 9th Circuit held the ban satisfied exacting scrutiny....

The Court’s docket shows the briefing on the emergency application is complete, but Justice Kennedy’s order contemplates a further order....

Gabbard criticized Ms. Wasserman Schultz, the top officer, last month for leaving her and other party officials out of the discussions about the Democratic presidential debates....

The three most open states are Hawaii, New Hampshire, and Oregon, all of which provide an online searchable database for consumers....

US Rep Tulsi Gabbard has pointed out again and again and again the President Obama is materially aiding Islamist Terrorists....

It’s like a bad Monty Python sketch....

...Ige's office has been flooded with over 500 phone calls and about 300 emails from constituents....

True to Form: Enviros win 90% in Hawaii Supreme Court....

'Screening': Syria is 10% Christian, 'Refugees' are 2% Christian....

Deirdre Marie-Iha, a lawyer from the Hawaii Attorney General's Office, asks for help defending against a free speech case....

Hawaii Ranks 44th with a 6.3% Tax Rate....

...it will likely move public sentiments substantially in one direction and Establishment policies in quite the opposite....

...Hawaii only granted permits to U.S. citizens until a federal judge in Honolulu last year ruled that's unconstitutional.  The department is trying to get around that ruling....