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Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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Assisted Suicide Bill Scheduled for Senate Hearing
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 10:49 AM :: 5152 Views :: Health Care, Life
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...Friday, March 16, 2018, 8:30 – 11:25 a.m., Conference Room 229, State Capitol....
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
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Taxpayers and Ratepayers Forced to Fund HECO Flywheel Scheme
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 6617 Views :: Energy, Tax Credits
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...Notice that they never mention the Cost?....
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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Community Well-Being: Honolulu Ranks 18th
By Selected News Articles @ 8:25 PM :: 4997 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...186 communities ranked based on their Well-Being Index scores....
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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Adjusted for Cost of Living, Hawaii Taxes Highest in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 PM :: 5486 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...$8,277 -- Annual Hawaii State & Local Taxes on Median State Household....
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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Attorney General Sessions Announces New Actions To Improve School Safety And Better Enforce Existing Gun Laws
By News Release @ 3:31 AM :: 8697 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care, Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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“...We are increasing the number of school resource officers, improving background checks and more aggressively prosecuting those who illegally attempt to purchase a firearm, and reviewing and enhancing the way our law enforcement agencies respond to tips from the public...."
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
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White House studies permanent Jones Act waiver for Puerto Rico
By Selected News Articles @ 3:25 AM :: 4418 Views :: Jones Act
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...One issue the group is grappling with is how to justify a waiver for Puerto Rico while keeping Jones Act requirements for other US ports, such as Hawaii....
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Monday, March 12, 2018 |
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Narcissists
By Joni Kamiya @ 7:13 PM :: 6168 Views :: GMOs
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..."I only eat organic”....
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Sunday, March 11, 2018 |
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Gun Control Rallies: How Today’s students have been Brainwashed to prepare for this moment their whole lives
By Selected News Articles @ 10:35 PM :: 9993 Views :: Education K-12, Second Amendment
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...Their educational experiences have been shaped by concepts like collaborative work, project-based learning, real-world scenarios, finding innovative solutions, and the underlying mantra that they can save the world....
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Sunday, March 11, 2018 |
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KIUC Board Election Results
By News Release @ 3:36 PM :: 5728 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...Newly-elected director Janet L. Kass will join incumbent directors David Iha and Teofilo Phil Tacbian who have been re-elected....
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Sunday, March 11, 2018 |
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Assisted Suicide Bill Now in Senate
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:38 AM :: 7001 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life
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...HB2739 has been assigned to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection & Health and Senate Judiciary....
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Sunday, March 11, 2018 |
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Groundhog Day in the Hawaii Senate
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 4043 Views :: Taxes
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... “It wasn’t that long ago that I was before this same committee testifying on a very similar bill on the very same tax provision, seeking to do the very same thing....”
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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State Audit of OHA is just the tip of the iceberg
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 11:35 PM :: 4874 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...There is much more that needs to be examined, and that will be the purpose of the upcoming independent audit....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Akana: Some OHA LLCs Created Secretly
By Selected News Articles @ 11:23 PM :: 6734 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Three of them were secretly created by two former Trustees and the former Administrator without Board approval....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Trask: Coco Palms Occupiers Duped by White Supremacist ‘Sovereign Citizens’
By News Release @ 7:10 PM :: 10464 Views :: Kauai County, Greenmail, Land Use, Tourism
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...Furthermore, according to official court documents of the State of Hawaii, Moses Enoka Heanu, the alleged “Chief Justice” of your “court” is a registered sex offender who was sentenced to five (5) years in prison for three (3) felony counts of sexual assault in the Third Circuit court of the State of Hawaii in 1998....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Five Political Parties Qualify for Hawaii Ballot
By News Release @ 1:51 PM :: 4988 Views :: Office of Elections
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...For the 2018 Elections, five political parties have qualified to appear on the ballot. They are....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Oahu LED Street Light Conversion Project set to begin
By News Release @ 12:51 PM :: 7570 Views :: Honolulu County, Energy
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...converting approximately 53,500 city-owned street lights to more energy efficient LED (light-emitting diode) lights....
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Study: Hawaii Obamacare Prices to Jump 50% by 2021
By News Release @ 2:49 AM :: 5713 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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...will they believe us if we blame Trump?...
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Saturday, March 10, 2018 |
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Auditor: Ten Years Later, Hawaii's Forgotten 2050 Sustainability Plan
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:27 AM :: 7399 Views :: Environment, Hawaii History
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...This report found that through the course of the past ten years, the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan was disregarded....
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Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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Ward: Trump, Kim Should Meet in Hawaii
By Rep Gene Ward @ 10:13 PM :: 5866 Views :: Military
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...Ward urges Trump to hold the meeting in Honolulu....
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Friday, March 9, 2018 |
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Janus: Abolishing mandatory fees could help unions
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:53 PM :: 5701 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...Will Hawaii’s public unions lose power if their membership dues become voluntary under a pending Supreme Court ruling in the case known as Janus v. AFSCME?....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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Schatz: Farrakhan Unacceptable in Progressive Coalition
By Selected News Articles @ 5:54 PM :: 8252 Views :: Democratic Party, First Amendment, Religion
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...“This is unacceptable in a progressive coalition or any political coalition. Antisemitism has no place in American society. We must reject this, left right and center,” Schatz wrote on Twitter....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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Hawaii Planned Parenthood Cuts Ties With Women’s March Co-Chair in Wake of Farrakhan Controversy
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 10890 Views :: Democratic Party, First Amendment, Life, Religion
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...Mallory received backlash for attending Farrakhan's annual Saviours' Day address, an event where the Nation of Islam leader attacked "that Satanic Jew," called Jews "the mother and father of apartheid," and proclaimed that "when you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door...."
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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CIA Warns of Extensive Chinese Operation to Infiltrate American Universities
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 PM :: 7325 Views :: First Amendment, Higher Education, Military
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...Chinese Communist 'Confucius Institute' a Threat to Academic Freedom at UH Manoa....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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Judiciary Program Dealing with bullies in school
By News Release @ 4:13 PM :: 6450 Views :: Education K-12, Judiciary
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...“How many of you know someone who has been bullied?” asked Judge Heely....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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Ige Names Lisa Ginoza chief judge, Intermediate Court of Appeals
By News Release @ 3:57 PM :: 5628 Views :: Judiciary
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...and James Ashford to the Circuit Court of the First Circuit....and Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald appoints Kevin T. Morikone to the District Court of the First Circuit....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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Three Republican Bills Cross Over in Legislature
By Rep Andria Tupola @ 3:30 PM :: 5686 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Republican Party
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...bills introduced by members of the House Republican Caucus that crossed over to the Senate....
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Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
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VIDEO: What happens if Hawaii becomes a Right-to-Work State Tomorrow?
By News Release @ 3:10 PM :: 9078 Views :: First Amendment, Labor
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...Panelists included: Tony Gill, partner at Gill Zukeran & Sgan Robert Alt, president of the Buckeye Institute....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii AG Sues Trump in Desperate Bid to Keep Health Insurance Expensive
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 6619 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
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... stop Trump from "provid(ing) new, more affordable options to Americans in the individual market who are getting hammered by skyrocketing premiums” ....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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A Month Later Crabbe Still Hasn't Released LLC Records to Trustees
By Video @ 5:20 PM :: 6474 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...one month ago, OHA Trustees voted to order managers of OHA's six LLCs to hand over financial records....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Philippines Reforms its own Version of Jones Act
By Joe Kent @ 1:40 PM :: 4790 Views :: Jones Act
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...Reforming its shipping laws to allow foreign ships to transport foreign goods between Philippine ports seems to have worked out well for the Philippines....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii Law 2nd Most Favorable to Renters
By Selected News Articles @ 1:21 PM :: 4330 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...We focused on 10 common aspects of the landlord-tenant relationship, which include security deposits, rent increases, the warranty of habitability and eviction notices....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Recession Made Renters Majority in Honolulu
By Selected News Articles @ 12:57 PM :: 5951 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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... the proportion of renters in Honolulu rose from 44.6% in 2006 to 56.1% in 2016 ....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Income Tax: Hawaii 2nd Highest n USA
By Tax Foundation @ 12:20 PM :: 5087 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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... Hawaii has reinstated its formerly temporary individual income tax brackets, ranging from 8.25 to 11 percent ....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Third Reading: House Sends 128 More Bills to Senate
By News Release @ 3:00 AM :: 4524 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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... these 128 are in addition to bills passed earlier ....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Senate Sends 420 Bills to House
By News Release @ 2:44 AM :: 3850 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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...The following are a few of the measures to pass on third reading....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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UH Reveals Clinton visit to Maunakea Telescopes
By Selected News Articles @ 2:23 AM :: 7623 Views :: Hawaii County , Higher Education, OHA
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...Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton traveled to the summit of Maunakea in early January 2018....
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Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
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Hawaii Anti-Gun Legislators Attack National Reciprocity
By News Release @ 1:21 AM :: 4454 Views :: Second Amendment
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... On Thursday, March 8th, a number of resolutions and concurrent resolutions will be heard to request the Congressional Delegation of Hawaii to vote against any national reciprocity legislation ....
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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Hawaii Democratic Precinct Meetings Set for Wednesday March 7 Statewide
By News Release @ 7:13 PM :: 4146 Views :: Democratic Party
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...between 6pm-8pm, see list of precinct meetings here....
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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Full Text: Assisted Suicide 16 Floor Amendments
By Rep Andria Tupola @ 2:39 PM :: 5815 Views :: Health Care, Life
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... Rep. Tupola offers amendments to HB 2739 ....
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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Sam King II and Keli'i Akina: OHA Audit Works for Betterment of Hawaiian People
By Video @ 2:24 PM :: 6907 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...In this conversation with Dr. Keli'i Akina, attorney Sam King discusses the recent audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, of which he is a beneficiary....
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
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Crabbe: Who is the Auditor to Judge ME?
By Andrew Walden @ 3:33 AM :: 7926 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...‘No. I think in this case the beneficiary may be right and you guys may be just a bunch of auditors.’ ....
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Monday, March 5, 2018 |
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2018’s Best & Worst States for Women -- Hawaii 7th
By Selected News Articles @ 10:30 PM :: 3403 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...the 50 states and the District of Columbia compared across 23 key indicators of living standards for women....
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Monday, March 5, 2018 |
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Effort to Digitize Records Stopped Cold by Outdated State Computers--But Still Cuts Wait Time for Workers’ Comp Hearings in Half
By Selected News Articles @ 5:58 PM :: 6383 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Labor
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...Thousands of files have been digitized at the state’s disability compensation program. However, they need hardware with capacity for more storage to continue progress....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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Auditor: Legislators 100% 'Fail to Meet Criteria' for New Special Funds
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:43 PM :: 7755 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii State Government, Tax Credits, Taxes
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...We reviewed 85 house and senate bills proposing 64 special and revolving funds during the 2018 legislative session of which none met criteria....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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By the Way, Could We Have $50 Million More?
By Tom Yamachika @ 4:00 AM :: 6564 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes, Tourism
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...In the middle of this process, sometimes a letter from the Governor arrives saying, “We need to make some adjustments...."
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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Republican Tax Cuts Pump $1.3B into Hawaii Economy
By UHERO @ 1:30 AM :: 7367 Views :: Economy, Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Democrat media unanimous: 'Nothing to see here'....
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Sunday, March 4, 2018 |
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UH, Feds Settle Title IX Case
By News Release @ 12:40 AM :: 4148 Views :: Higher Education
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...the Feds will monitor UH Mānoa until it completes its obligations under the agreement....
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