...the unemployment rate rose to 7.9 percent in October and the economy created about 171,000 jobs, roughly equal to the usual number of new workers in the labor force....

Abercrombie today said, “I want everyone to remember that trees and forests are what make life possible...."

It's very obvious that Hirono's campaign and her mainland operatives see the same polling numbers we do: that the U.S. Senate race is a statistical dead heat....

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GCA joins a growing coalition of business leaders supporting Linda Lingle for U.S. Senate, including the Associated Builders and Contractors, Maui Chamber of Commerce, and the Hawaii Restaurant Association, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce....

Yesterday’s report on campaign donations reveals that he continues to accept great numbers of monetary contributions from government contractors, including Honolulu rail contractors....

...behavioral health services to Medicaid-eligible adults who have serious mental illnesses, and who are participants in the state's QUEST Expanded Access, or QExA, health program....

Crony capitalism describes an economic system in which the profitability of firms in a market economy is dependent on political connections....

TONIGHT, Thursday, November 1 – 6:00-8:30 p.m....

It is clear that our state government has not been working for the people and I am running to change that.

After three years of hyper-regulation, the Obama Administration has noticeably slowed its rulemaking in recent months.... 

104,323 Hawaii County residents are registered to vote in the 2012 General Election....

"With the PLDC's recent efforts to exclude the public from commenting and the adoption of a toothless strategic plan, it appears our only alternative is to push for a repeal of the PLDC."

At $22,394, Hawaii's adjusted average income figure is more than $7,000 below that of the next lowest state....(we're 39% lower than Mississippi and 56% lower than Alaska)

2.9 percent of all new electric vehicles sold so far in the U.S. this year were registered in Hawaii, ranking the state 10th in the country. This rate is almost eight times the state’s share of all new car registrations in the U.S., where Hawaii ranks 41st overall at 0.4 percent.

Civil Beat's pollster over samples Democrats, using 56% self-identified Democrats. Our nationally-recognized pollster believes this figure should be 42%....

Hawaii looted its catastrophe fund to "balance" the budget and doubled down by taking borrowed money to replenish it....

"It's happening. Romney winning independents, safe Obama states no longer safe, female gap closing. Obama is in trouble."

There are some striking similarities between the private student loan market and subprime mortgage industry....

On this Halloween, a truly frightening specter is looming....