Entries for 'Selected News Articles'

...Trump announced on Thursday a plan to send $500 rebate checks to nearly 1 million Americans across 30 states for Obamacare overcharges. ...

...Vaccines are most effective when a large portion of the population gets them....

...One of the costliest parts of the law is the requirement that vessels used in domestic shipping be built in the United States....

... Balancing Bail and Pretrial Equity: Community Accountability and the Risk of E-Carceration ....

... Hawaii is the state with the third-best budgeters, and it boasts the second-highest percentage of residents who set aside money for emergencies ....

...For over 12 years, the two have fought three election battles that ended up before the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court....

... Will US Supreme Court grant the petition for a writ of certiorari? ....

... The suit follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling Monday ....

...Given these policies, why would any right-thinking entrepreneur, or growing business, locate in Hawaii? And how did the Wall Street Journal miss this?....

... how public school students can benefit from the FTCS ....

... the forces of segregation and racism in Congress effectively derailed statehood for more than a decade ....

... States prioritizing renewables over reliability, affordability see higher costs ....

...Twenty-two states have gone to court to block the Trump administration from accessing a database containing the personal information of roughly 17 million commercial drivers....

... Hawaii is more reliant on fossil fuels than any other state, deriving some 90% of its total energy consumption from oil ....

... If you or a loved one is still waiting in long lines for dialysis, you can blame embattled former state Rep. Ryan Yamane ....

...This is an important change for Hawaii CCW holders....

... A new Hawaii law reclassifies corporate political speech as a "power" the state can revoke at will ....

... The statutory definition of the "aloha spirit" seems very much like any other progressive non-deist religion ....

...The document also incorporated plans to withhold some information from the public surrounding the lawsuits....

...Four seats are open in Hawaii’s state legislative elections this year, meaning no incumbents filed.  That is the second-fewest since 2010....

August 6 and 9 have been made into International Days of Anti-American historical revisionism.  So here is a look at reality as seen from first-hand sources instead of whining activists.

... another lawsuit against the Trump administration over tariffs ....

... Fuchigami has quietly spent the better part of fifteen years moving through some of the most influential positions in Hawaiʻi government ....

... the ICC has become one of the most powerful and least transparent institutions in housing policy ....

... she’s been trying to add an additional building to run an infant-toddler center for seven or eight years, but on the island, the process is lengthy ....

"...Hawaii’s homeowners-to-population ratio (HPOP) is 18.9 percentage points lower than its owner-occupancy rate, the largest difference of any state...."

... the tax code treats different retirement dollars very differently ....

"Perhaps electrical grids are more complicated than the mandates."

...Ketanji Brown Jackson is creating a body of “KBJ law” that other judges can cite to defy SCOTUS....

"...This is nothing more than an unserious screed rather than a reasoned opinion....”

“...most of that gap is driven by just four states: California, Hawaii, Washington and Oregon....”

... The Trump administration has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to stop the litigation ....

... Program provides an early warning system for emerging threats ....

... Hawaii bought gasoline from Texas ....

"...These 'explicit conversations' provoke 'strong emotions' and crying students are expected...."

... In 2024, the median home price in Honolulu was about twice what a median-income household could afford ....

"...funding challenges, especially given the expiration of the UH master lease in 2033, in addition to the obligations contained in the UH Master Plan, led to the decision to end science operations...."

... patients with complex cancers, such as leukemia and brain tumors, were most likely to require out-of-state care ....

... included in the "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law in July 2025. It provides a $1,000 contribution from the U.S. Treasury Department to a tax-free account for babies born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028 ....

"Trustee conduct matters. When interactions become adversarial, dismissive, degrading or demeaning, it weakens the collective ability of the Board...."

...the report compares prices for both family-based and center-based care, adjusting them relative to median household income....

“If you’re an astronomer, for example, think about where your telescope is, she says. ‘Are you part of that community? Is that telescope put there with knowledge of the people who call that place their land?’” 

...empower the counties and municipalities of the state to issue housing infrastructure growth bonds for specified public works, public improvements, and community development....

...A dispensary owner believes Hawaii’s hemp regulations are unconstitutional. He’s suing to stop their enforcement, but the law may not be on his side....

...Thirty-one surface ships, five submarines, 197 aircraft and 30,000 personnel, including 1100 landing forces will take part in the drills....

... Joseph Dutton watched over the orphaned boys of Kalaupapa for 44 years ....

... Guru Chris Butler Directs Gabbard's 2016 Shift to Join 'Total Idiot' Trump ....

...FSM’s population decreased by 26 percent between the 2010 and 2023 censuses, and RMI lost 20 percent of its population from 2011 to 2021....

... SB3025: The Legislature's medical debt relief bill creates a timely opening to discuss deeper affordability failures ....

"...scholars standing up for scholarly rigor and not letting political goals corrupt the research...."