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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 |
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Old federal maritime law holds back Hawaii tourism, new report shows
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:53 PM :: 3498 Views :: Jones Act, Tourism
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...Ocean cruising has been suspended during the coronavirus lockdowns, but when it resumes, the industry needs more freedom to benefit Hawaii....
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 78 new cases out of 4,329 tests
By News Release @ 7:11 PM :: 2041 Views :: COVID-19
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... 8 new hospitalizations, 14 new deaths, 1.8% positive ....
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
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Convicted Palestinian Hijacker Set to Speak at UH Manoa--Unless Zoom Blocks her (again)
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 3625 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education
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... her terrorism convictions in connection with the 1969 hijacking of TWA Flight 840 and the 1970 hijacking of El Al Flight 219 ....
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Highest Young Adult Vaping Rate
By Selected News Articles @ 11:01 PM :: 3127 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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... A Growing Epidemic: States with the Highest Young Adult Vaping Rates ....
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 91 new cases out of 3,681 tests
By News Release @ 10:38 PM :: 1818 Views :: COVID-19
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... 13 new hospitalizations, two new deaths, 2.5% positive ....
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
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Ige Announces $25M 'Pivot Grants' for Businesses
By News Release @ 10:11 PM :: 2623 Views :: Small Business, COVID-19
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...$25M in financial and training support....
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 |
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DoH Revises COVID Guidance for School Reopening
By News Release @ 2:38 AM :: 2452 Views :: Education K-12, COVID-19
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... Last month, the Hawai‘i Department of Health issued a comprehensive, 28-page guidance document for public and charter schools ....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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Panos: What is the future of Honolulu Rail?
By Video @ 11:36 PM :: 3332 Views :: Rail
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...What are the latest developments and implications for the completion of one of the most challenged public works project in the nation?....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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Bill 80 Imposes Rehiring Formula on Hotels
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:03 PM :: 3929 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Tourism
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...rehire employees according to a strict formula based on an occupancy ratio....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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Rule by Decree: Ige 4th Extension of Kauai Flooding Emergency
By News Release @ 9:54 PM :: 1902 Views :: Kauai County
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...Ige has signed a fourth emergency proclamation for the County of Kaua‘i, which suffered extensive damage to public property caused by heavy rains and flooding on Mar. 27 and 28....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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COVID Count 39 new cases out of 1,985 tests
By News Release @ 8:43 PM :: 1798 Views :: COVID-19
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... 7 new hospitalizations, no new deaths, 2.0% positive ....
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Monday, October 19, 2020 |
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OHA COVID Money: Homeless not part of ‘Friends and Family Plan’
By Andrew Walden @ 1:11 AM :: 5759 Views :: Kauai County, Ethics, OHA, COVID-19
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"... the ones who are punished the most for allegations of OHA misdoing is the community ...."
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Sunday, October 18, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 83 new cases out of 3,735 tests
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 1737 Views :: COVID-19
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... 4 new hospitalizations, 1 new death, 2.2% positive ....
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Sunday, October 18, 2020 |
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Circuit Court Decision Upholds Lawfulness of Governor’s Emergency Proclamations
By News Release @ 4:24 PM :: 3331 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Law Enforcement, COVID-19
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...In Partal et al. v. Ige et al., the plaintiffs argued that the Governor’s emergency powers under Hawaiʻi law were time-limited....
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Sunday, October 18, 2020 |
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Ige Announces Testing Partners for Inter-Island Travel
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 2821 Views :: Tourism, COVID-19
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... Travelers register on and upload their test results to the Safe Travels Hawaiʻi account and inter-county travelers must have the test result with them upon arrival ....
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Sunday, October 18, 2020 |
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Pulling Teeth at OHA
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3688 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...An accounting firm can’t arrest people, throw them in jail, or otherwise find that they have committed illegal activity....
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Sunday, October 18, 2020 |
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JSC Seeks Nominees for First, Third Circuit
By News Release @ 2:54 AM :: 1985 Views :: Judiciary
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... The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancies ....
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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Nobel Prize Winner Talks About TMT Challenges
By News Release @ 10:43 PM :: 4352 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... “Having two disparate points of view is ultimately the way of finding a more creative solution. What I hope ultimately is having a better collaboration between the scientific community and the native Hawaiians will help us arrive at a solution that's right for all of humanity.” ....
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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How to diversify Hawaii's economy
By Grassroot Institute @ 10:35 PM :: 3806 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, Tourism
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“...If all of us had to go back and work in the agricultural sector, we’re not as productive in that, and we would lose income....”
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Saturday, October 17, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 96 new cases out of 3,897 tests
By News Release @ 7:44 PM :: 1848 Views :: COVID-19
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... 13 new hospitalizations, 1 new death, 2.5% positive ....
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Friday, October 16, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 89 new cases out of 3,654 tests
By News Release @ 7:19 PM :: 1884 Views :: COVID-19
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... 10 new hospitalizations, 1 new death, 2.4% positive ....
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Friday, October 16, 2020 |
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UHERO: Pandemic upends economic analysis
By UHERO @ 6:16 PM :: 2598 Views :: Economy, COVID-19
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... because the state GDP data is released with a three-month lag and undergoes many revisions after its release ....
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Friday, October 16, 2020 |
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Auditor Reports on Hawaii COVID Quarantine System
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 6:47 AM :: 3188 Views :: Hawaii State Government, COVID-19
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... Limited Scope Review of the State of Hawai‘i’s Mandatory Travel Self-Quarantine Program ....
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Friday, October 16, 2020 |
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UH News: University Enrollment Up--Community College Enrollment Down
By News Release @ 4:46 AM :: 2658 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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...UH‘s four year universities are up 1.9% and the UH community colleges are down 3.2%....
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Friday, October 16, 2020 |
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Regents appoint Maunakea Planning Task Group
By News Release @ 4:40 AM :: 4267 Views :: Hawaii County , Greenmail, Higher Education, OHA
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... The group will make recommendations to the board ....
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 |
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COVID: Hawaii debt increases by $9 billion
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:12 PM :: 3482 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics, COVID-19
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...Hawaii’s unfunded liabilities for infrastructure and public health benefits have increased so far this year to $97 billion....
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 |
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "We must lift the Jones Act, which has exploited Puerto Rican consumers and strangled the economy"
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:24 PM :: 4123 Views :: Jones Act
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...U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) used the recent three-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico to call for a lifting of the Jones Act....
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 |
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Virtual Town hall for small businesses not allowed to reopen
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 7:18 PM :: 3406 Views :: Honolulu County, Small Business, COVID-19
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...Closed local businesses feel discriminated against, seek to clear up misunderstanding....
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 91 new cases out of 3,489 tests
By News Release @ 7:03 PM :: 1823 Views :: COVID-19
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... 17 new hospitalizations, 1 new death, 32 new releases ....
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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Hawaii Least Politically Engaged State
By Selected News Articles @ 10:58 PM :: 3092 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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... Civic participation is a key ingredient of a well-functioning democracy ....
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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Hawaii To Welcome Back Travelers Starting October 15
By News Release @ 9:28 PM :: 2423 Views :: COVID-19
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... Ige signs 14th supplementary emergency proclamation extending COVID-19 emergency period through Nov. 30 ....
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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UH Manoa student loan defaults among lowest in the nation
By News Release @ 8:19 PM :: 2645 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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... UH Manoa’s default rate was 3.3% compared to 9.7% nationally ....
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 101 new cases out of 4,069 tests
By News Release @ 8:13 PM :: 2262 Views :: COVID-19
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... 10 new hospitalizations, 10 new deaths, 2.5% positive ....
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 |
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PBS: Hawaii Absentee Ballot Data Problems
By Selected News Articles @ 12:13 AM :: 2934 Views :: Office of Elections
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... Hawaii both indicate that they transmitted fewer ballots to voters than were submitted ....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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Debunking Hawaii Pesticide Study
By Selected News Articles @ 11:30 PM :: 3566 Views :: Agriculture, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...‘Heavy’ pesticide exposure linked to cardiovascular disease? Flawed study raises ‘troubling’ questions about public health research....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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Does Your State Have a Throwback or Throwout Rule?
By Tax Foundation @ 9:33 PM :: 3121 Views :: Small Business, Taxes
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... Hawaii has a throwback rule ....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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COVID Count 62 new cases out of 2,354 tests
By News Release @ 9:12 PM :: 1728 Views :: COVID-19
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... 12 new hospitalizations, 4 new deaths, 2.6% positive ....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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TMT: A Message from Aloha Aina Party Cofounder Pua Ishibashi
By News Release @ 8:42 PM :: 3022 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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"... With all that is needed in the Lahui we should not IMO simplify a candidate's worth for our Lahui based on his/her stance on a single issue ...."
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
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Hawaii GOP Ballot Recommendations
By Shirlene Ostrov @ 8:32 PM :: 3186 Views :: Republican Party
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...voting is kind of like catching a bus. It may not get you all the way to the front door of the place you need to get to, but you catch the one that gets you CLOSEST to your destination....
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Monday, October 12, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 42 new cases out of 1,405 tests
By News Release @ 7:12 PM :: 2052 Views :: COVID-19
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... 4 new hospitalizations, no new deaths, 3.0% positive ....
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Monday, October 12, 2020 |
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Lemming News: Maui County Jumps on 'Sue Big Oil' Bandwagon
By News Release @ 6:57 PM :: 3666 Views :: Maui County, Energy, Environment
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...every court to reach the substance of the allegations has dismissed them—including the U.S. Supreme Court....
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Monday, October 12, 2020 |
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Trans-Generational Corruption: Another Charged in Hawaii Lum Scandal
By Court House News @ 6:01 PM :: 4194 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii History, Republican Party
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...Federal authorities charged former top fundraiser for the Republican National Committee Elliott Broidy with conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent over his alleged involvement in a secretive effort to lobby the Trump administration....
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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COVID Count: 103 new cases out of 3,819 tests
By News Release @ 10:02 PM :: 1818 Views :: COVID-19
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... 6 new hospitalizations, 1 more death, 2.7% positive ....
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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A Critical Time for OHA
By Selected News Articles @ 6:43 PM :: 3379 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Unless the corrupt “old guard trustees” (or their clones now running for OHA seats) are replaced with honest people willing to clean up the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the state and federal government will step in and shut it down, saying: “See? We gave you Hawaiians chance, and you blew it.”....
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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Call for nominations for UH Board of Regents
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 2163 Views :: Higher Education
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...accepting applications for three seats on the Board of Regents....
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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Academic Leadership
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 3897 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Higher Education, Labor, COVID-19
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...an example of leadership in the face of the COVID-19 crisis....
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Sunday, October 11, 2020 |
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OHA Races: Miske’s Lawyer Leads Developers Targeting ‘Watchdog’ in Grab for Kakaako Makai
By Andrew Walden @ 3:10 AM :: 7727 Views :: Ethics, Development, OHA
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...Akina’s opponent, Jason Keoni Souza, is a Realtor who supports selling the Ceded Lands “to corporations.” Souza tells Ka Wai Ola he wants OHA to “collaborate with the Building Trades.”....
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Saturday, October 10, 2020 |
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Mililani Trask, Jackie Burke, Pua Ishibashi Endorse Keli’i Akina for OHA Trustee
By Video @ 11:57 PM :: 7769 Views :: OHA
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"...I will be voting for Keli’i Akina for OHA Trustee At-Large, Luana Alapa for OHA Trustee for Molokai and Lanakila Mangauil for OHA Trustee for Hawai’i Island...." -- Mililani Trask
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