... California, Alaska, Guam, Guess Who’s Next ....

Legislative Recess - A Perfect Time to Meet with Your Legislators at Home.  The state legislature goes into a mandatory five-day recess from February 21-26....

“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering or an instrument to penalize Hawaiians for doing nothing wrong....”

...market withdrawal of select Organic Baby Spinach products with the potential to be contaminated with Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)....

It is also possible that LGBT adults make conscious choices to reside in certain states rather than others....

...Colleen Hanabusa underperformed Obama by the most of any incumbent in the nation....

Air carriers have optimistically boosted scheduled seats from Japan, although in our view yen depreciation and higher room rates will act to limit further Japanese market gains....

...it appears that over 301,000 government record requests were routinely fulfilled by the reporting agencies....

You’re busy. So busy you barely have time to read these words. So why should you care about the U.S. debt? Does it affect your life?

During a special premiere at the State Capitol, Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) today launched a new teen-focused multi-media campaign to combat obesity....

Really Obvious Question: They win by bribery in India, how do they win in Hawaii?

"After the hiring freeze was lifted staff hired still required Budget and Finance Approval and the Governor’s signature for general funded positions. This slowed the process down significantly. Around November or early December of 2011 the DLNR budget analyst left for vacation and all our paper work at Budget and Finance stopped moving...."

The proposed Jamaica logistics hub would act as a transshipment point for the Caribbean, Latin America and the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts....

...National Marriage Week (February 7–14) is drawing attention to the link between the collapse of marriage and child poverty—and its cost to America....

Medicare will begin adjusting payments to physicians based on “the value of the care provided” in 2015....

...hospice care was hit by a $17 billion payment cut from 2013 to 2022.  Now, contrary to all of the misleading claims, this effect is already beginning....

...lobbyists are relied upon heavily to vie for the interests of the higher-income consumers and producers, leaving the burden of the new tax to lower income consumers who cannot afford representation....

More than 46 million pounds of waste was generated from solar companies in California between 2007 and mid-2011....

The reality is that calories in the American diet from added sugars in soda have dropped nearly 40 percent since 2000....

On a dark night, with stars sparkling high above the shores of the Hawaiian Islands....