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Let me warn you in advance that I plan to talk big picture here tonight, and I plan to say some things that may challenge your assumptions....

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Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....

In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....

"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."

Repeal Bills:  SB 1; SBs 245, 246; SB 338; SB 425; SB 480; SB 663; SBs 780, 781; SB 866....

...the state Office of Planning is now drafting a resolution for Abercrombie to sign as an executive policy, recognizing that TOD is a priority of state government....

...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?

In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.

In 2003, Hawaii congressman Ed Case introduced legislation to free his state from the Jones Act....

A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....

The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News....

“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”

ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....

"Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health." 

Approximately four years ago, the Hawaii State Legislature commissioned Stroudwater Associates to evaluate our Hawaii Health System Safety Net Hospitals....

...Candidate filing is open from now through February 22nd for Honolulu Neighborhood Board elections....

ORMP sets its own ”Management Priorities” and right at the top of the list is priority #1....

The Drug Policy Action Group interviewed 603 Hawaii voters....

What would happen if voting by mail became compulsory? ... We answer that question in this paper....

"Tesoro does not know what potential buyers might ask of state of Hawaii or federal officials."

...a South African company, announced its intention to build a 96,000-barrel-per-day gas-to-liquids plant in Lake Charles, LA....

Fluorescent lights hang above; though they appear to be on, the room seems eerily dark....

“There is buzz that folks are going to get primaried, there’s no question about that.”

Hawaii's largest oil refinery is closing, precisely as we predicted it would....

...the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Hawaii legislature from substantively constraining the Governor’s choices in making a temporary appointment....

there are now more Republican minorities in the Senate (South Carolina’s Tim Scott, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Texas’s Ted Cruz) than Democrats (New Jersey’s Robert Menendez and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono).…

The mother claims that her daughters teacher and state administrators not only failed to investigate the abuse that occurred on and off school grounds, but conspired to cover it up, and then suspended her.

The deal also greatly relaxes the standards for companies to qualify to grab that tax credit.... 

When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....

...a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home....

Angry comments were plastered on Abercrombie's Facebook page following the announcement of his decision Wednesday, with some predicting he would be a one-term governor....

Judge Tashima issued his final ruling yesterday and that allows us to at last appeal both this ruling and the others that he has made over the 19 months that this case has taken....

...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....

“This does not make any logical/political sense, so therefore it must be personal.” --Washington Post

Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....

Inouye's chief of staff, Jennifer Sabas, says despite the disappointment, Inouye's office wishes Schatz "the best of luck."

"The lesson for everybody is you don't want your town to turn into this."

Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks is speaking January 6-9 at events throughout Hawaii.

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar....

The notion that religion belongs in the realm of governance has its origins in the host culture, said Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies....

The wind lobby is working overtime to convince Congress to pass an extension before the clock runs out on December 31st....

If Hanabusa is appointed senator, you can take the names of most of the folks listed above as possible candidates in the special election ....

Operation Southern Fist II near Shor Bak, Afghanistan....

“…we’re electing our next senator-for-life in this process….”

...Federal Aviation Administration issued several flight restrictions for Hawaii from 8 P.M. Friday through midnight on Sunday January 6....

Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's biggest utility, will pass on about $700 million in annual costs to people without solar systems ....

...parts are still arriving there and automobiles still being produced....

...the U.S. build section of the Act should be modified in certain trades of domestic shipping in order to support the U.S. Merchant Marine....

Hawaii had three major industries: tourism, the military, and Sen. Dan Inouye....