OHA

The State Attorney General Steps In and ....

...provides supplemental awards “to school districts that agree to adopt weighted student funding combined with open enrollment systems that allow Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice...."

My testimony today focuses on what I perceive to be OHA’s misuse of wholly owned LLC subsidiaries to avoid laws applicable to OHA and OHA trustees.....

...more opportunities for local high school students to use Maunakea Observatories for their innovative research projects....

...the SOQ will allow OHA to engage an auditor or auditing firm to conduct an examination of not only OHA but its subsidiary LLCs, for a period reaching back five years....

...Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Are Afraid Of You....

RM #17-06 is both the authorization to retain an auditor to perform the independent audit of OHA, and is the final approval for funding of the audit itself....

Thursday at 6 p.m. at Windward Community College in Kāneʻohe....

...Hawaiiʻs Attorney General Had No Choice But To Start A Criminal Probe....

...I observe a seriously diminished vigilance in contemporary Hawaiian society on maintaining the cultural dignity of our traditions in the absence of a collective will to check our facts....

OHA tries to co-opt any aloha `āina, Mauna Kea and Independence events every time....

Someone Wants To Stack The Deck Against You ....

...OHA Gets An F Grade For Not Telling You How It Spends Your Money....

Multiple procurement violations underlie a secret $435,000 contract between the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) and a company owned by UH Law Professor Kamana Beamer.....

"...Kaiama, with reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity of the allegation, accused the presiding Judge of committing war crimes under international Conventions, and thereby filed a frivolous document that served no legal or practical purpose...."

...The May 1, 2017 decision by Judge Jeffrey P. Crabtree has been posted to OIP’s website....

State Senate asks OHA to convene a group of Hawaiian leaders, legal scholars, and Hawaiian community members to review whether it’d be better to appoint OHA Trustees rather than elect them....

...this audit seeks to identify areas of “waste, abuse and fraud...”

...re-writing the rules....

OHA today named David K. Laeha as the agency’s new Chief Financial Officer and Resource Management Director. He will start on May 16....

OHA Edited That Part Of The Meeting Video Out Before They Later Posted It Online....

...June 13, 2017....

...attorneys representing Abigail Kawananakoa effectively debunk arguments used by the LLC lawyer Kimberly Greeley in opposition to an earlier open records request--which is still pending--from Hawai'i Free Press....

The Historic Hawaiʻi Foundation will honor the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Office of Maunakea Management (OMKM) for its outstanding preservation efforts of Maunakea....

'Maunakea World Park' Advanced by Hawaii Mayor Kim at ILOA Galaxy Forum Kona....

...Trying To Get Their Hands On Your Beneficiary Funds....

...and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ponied up $500K buying Kamanao Crabbe the chance to MC the event....

“A little over half of this increase is attributable to State wharfage charges"

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is accepting community input through March 31...

...two Hua Kanu business loans, totaling $450,000, to Reliant Trucking Inc. and Goldwings Supply Service Inc....

...Two Strategies That Could Compromise The Audit & Who Might Want That To Happen....

On October 31st, 2016, the TIO Board of Directors selected the ‘Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos’ (ORM), in La Palma, on the Canary Islands (Spain) as the alternate site for TMT....

...Trustee Keli‘i Akina appointed to chair audit committee....

This coming Thursday, March 23, 2017, at 10:00 AM....

...Implement a forensic audit of OHA’s expenses, especially in regards to “Hawaiian Nation Building”....

...what the beneficiaries say....

...the audit of “OHA and its subsidiaries” should include the six secretive LLCs owned by OHA....

...When It Comes To OHA Misspending Funds, That's Just The Tip Of The Iceberg....

...the Congressional Review Act allows Congress a certain time to object to any new rule if it believes, for example, that an agency has overstepped its legal authority. If the President agrees, the rule is repealed....

Who Violated The Law & Why They Got Away With It....

In spite of zero media attention, HB1297 drew 747 pages of opposition testimony from angry Hawaiians ....

...information and developments that are about to be announced by Office of Hawaiian Affairs Chair Colette Machado....

...OHA Professional Services Contract awards for the past 36 months....

... Auditor: OHA Fails to File Oversight Reports as it Drains Public Land Trust Fund ....

Maunakea Scholars is an innovative program designed to bring Hawaiʻi’s young, aspiring astronomers into the observatory community by competitively allocating observing time on Maunakea’s world-class telescopes....

"The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, just like every governmental agency, must follow its own rules and state law."

Trustee Dan Ahuna was named board vice chair....

...Akina Appointed to Ad Hoc Audit Committee....

... Kaniela Ing has spent years trying to force Hawaiians into a fake Indian tribe ....