...EPA inspectors identified multi-unit residential buildings illegally discharging wastewater into eleven cesspools in Kealakekua, Hawaii....

...House Speaker Scott K. Saiki today announced the appointment of individuals to serve on the Select House Committee on COVID-19 Economic and Financial Preparedness adopted through House Resolution 54....

...19 Hrs Driving time spent in congestion in 2019....

...work towards a solution that included balancing their fiduciary duties to the Native Hawaiian community with their primary focus – building telescopes on the mauna....

...Legislators propose to pile on the taxes....

...Hawai‘i is the thirteenth U.S. state to sign a Shared Stewardship Agreement with the USDA Forest Service (USFS)....

...This Week's Bills Introduced and votes cast by Hawaii Congressional Delegation....

...the Department of Taxation, is behind a few of them....

...The EB-5 program offers alien investors a family-sized set of green cards if they invest....

...Associate Judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals, State of Hawaii....

...The rules had to be changed because Gabbard won two delegates on Super Tuesday in American Samoa.....

...programs at Kailua Pier from 8am to 10:30am, as well as free programs at Mokuaikaua Church and Huliheʻe Palace from 11am to 4pm, April 4, 2020....

...Hawaii citizens can count on seeing a slew of bills introduced to raise taxes on somebody....

...Legislative Crossing: Bills Start Over Again in the Opposite Chamber....

...February 26-29: Nawiliwili, Honolulu, Lahaina, Hilo....

...the pros and cons of ships, trucks and trains....

... 10am Saturday, March 7, 2020 ....

... Just last year, a 9th Circuit opinion ruled that California's ban on standard capacity magazines was unconstitutional ....

...almost 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese....

...Carbon Tax to become $15B Slush Fund for Developers....

...Senate Bill 3104, Senate Draft 2, relating to Land Development...and...Senate Bill 3103, Senate Draft 2, relating to a School Facilities Agency....

...hearing and floor session videos have been and continue to be archived, unedited....

...The National Marine Fisheries Service has until June 30 to make its decision....

...several victims testified at trial that they relied upon Williams’s representations and went into foreclosure as a result of the MEI program and lost their homes....

"...The government of Japan reduced its budget allocation for the TMT project in Japanese FY2020 (April, 2020 to March, 2021) due to the stalemate of the construction in Hawaii...."

...Green: Put Corona Virus Quarantine Patients in Leahi Hospital with Nursing Home Patients....

...The fortnightly EXX (Hawaii) service is the third iteration of a contemporary APL Asia – Hawaii service they’ve attempted since August 2017.... 

...Hawaii collects $103 per person....

...Convicted cocaine dealer and MMA fight promoter Chad Tsuneyoshi may not be satisfied with just having his wife on the Honolulu Council....

...In 2017, only only 3.5 percent of Hawaiian high school students reported using e-cigarettes daily and only 1.2 percent reported smoking combustible cigarettes daily....

...Saturday, March 7, at the Bishop Memorial Chapel at Kamehameha Schools Kapālama, 1887 Makuakāne Street. Public visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. with services scheduled to start at 10:45 a.m....

...A total of 355 bills have been sent from the House to the Senate for their consideration....

...During the recession of 2008, the state government was forced to reduce the school week to four days, cut millions of dollars from social programs, and reduce public employee salaries by 5 percent....

...“We should hold off on ‘nice-to-have’ projects like construction at Blaisdell Center and focus on fiscal prudence,” said Pine....

...Hawaii is the 8th-richest state but has the 5th-lowest per capita income in USA....

...A group of bills will be up for third reading in tomorrow’s crossover session in the Hawai‘i State Senate tomorrow, Tuesday, March 3, 2020, starting at 9:30 a.m....

...California’s neighbor to the left is seeking to outdo the Golden State tyrants with an even more intrusive scheme to harass law-abiding gun owners....

...some immigrant families have decided to forgo all government benefits....

...Thursday March 5th is the 2020 Legislative session first crossover....

...Weekly Update From GovTrack.us, February 29, 2020....

...The average daily census of total visitors in the Hawaiian Islands on any given day in January was 269,421, up 2.0 percent....

...a 0.5% GE Tax hike to pay for 'climate change'....

...Money management is a life skill that unfortunately isn’t taught as often as it should be.... 

...See all 2019 and 2020 House bills that have crossed over to the Senate this session....

...The House passed HB 1902, HB 2736, and HB 2744. The bills will now move to the Senate for further consideration. On the Senate side, the Judiciary Committee passed SB 2519 and SB 2635, both with amendments....

...some of the bills we have been tracking are dead....

...The campaign against disposable bags and other products is harming the planet and the public....

...77% of the Jones Act fleet consists of unpowered barges....

...It's the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years....

...Hawaii 2.11 drunk driving fatalities per 100,000 people--down 26.83% from 2017....