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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....

...the Illinois veterans are allowed to continue voting in Illinois by absentee ballot ... if they reside in the Northern Mariana Islands (“NMI”),  American Samoa, or in a foreign country, but not if they reside in Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands....

Raising a family in the Aloha State comes at a high price....

"The ratio of homeless veterans to the veteran population is 28 times higher in San Francisco than in Virginia Beach, Va"

instead of getting credited for the full retail rate for the energy they produce, customers will be credited for a fixed rate between 15 cents and 28 cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the island....

Lobbyists thrive in land of sunshine....

The map shows the average amount of EITC taken per tax return in every county in America....

Our data set ranges from the percentage of adults and children who are overweight and obese to the sugary-beverage consumption among adolescents....

WalletHub’s analysts compared 1,268 U.S. cities....

If you’re Social Justice Warrior, you’re a liar....

Hawaii has a low business survival rate, with only slightly more businesses created in 2013 than failed that year....

...mass shootings in this country are more a reflection of problems identifying and treating people with mental health problems....

PUC Chairman Randy Iwase seems confident that the ruling will stand....

The Dole fruit and Dow chemical companies must face a lawsuit from migrant farm workers who claim they were harmed by a pesticide, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled....

Hawaii has grabbed tens of millions of dollars from Honolulu County taxpayers and diverted it to the general fund, rather than using it for a mass transit rail project as intended....

The Department of the Interior will conduct four meetings by teleconference....

Hawaii ranks 44th at $58 per person ....

...This is a question for Congress to decide, not a small band of lawyer-activists inside the Obama administration....

Sylvia Luke wants it as a slush fund to purchase Ali’i Place. Ernie Martin wants it to build affordable housing....

Faleomavaega's sister, Vaitunasa Salu Hunkin-Finau is prepared to make a bid to return the office to family hands....

NextEra reported that long-time Abercrombie confidant, Senator Brian Schatz and aide Josh Handleman, had a meeting on April 7, 2014 at NextEra Energy Headquarters in Juno Beach, Florida....

The state lawsuit also claimed Ciber used lobbyists and “exercised inappropriate political influence” to persuade the state to continue making payments to the company....

...the average property tax deduction taken on the Schedule A, per tax return, for each county....

...if you thought this was an isolated incident, you haven't been paying attention to Tulsi Gabbard....

Hawaii residents had the highest financial well-being in the nation in 2014, followed closely by Alaska residents....

"...it kind of reminds me of how high school teenagers act,” Ms. Gabbard said....