...The state Department of Education is instructing schools statewide to create a “designated walkout area” for students...to participate in upcoming protests against gun violence, Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said in a Friday letter to parents....

...calls on the Planning Department to propose rule changes to the Maui, Molokai and Lanai Planning Commissions to include sea level rise in their shoreline setback calculations....

... HTDC awarded 15 Hawaii-based companies $1,417,050 ....

...Nine towns in Hawaii rank in lowest quintile....

...The ESRB’s decision to label video games with paid add-ons essentially does nothing to address the complaint that loot boxes are akin to gambling....

...tag-team efforts of Russian trolls and ‘keep it in the ground’ activists....

...After 4 Hours of Testimony, Democrats take 13 minutes to PASS HB-2739 HD1 out of committee....

...With its founder locked in a Federal Penitentiary on felony tax evasion charges, Sandwich Isles Communications is closing and laying off all 40 of its remaining employees this Friday March 2, 2018....

...We will have more opportunities to voice our concerns in the remaining half of this session....

...José Torra, an economist and research director for Caminos de la Libertad in Mexico City....

...the PUC’s $2.8 million Document Management System (DMS) is almost universally considered by management and staff to be difficult to use, unreliable, slow, and obsolete, with staff developing elaborate workarounds to accommodate for the system’s shortcomings. Yet the PUC has no firm plans to fix or replace this problematic system....

...Air Service to Hawai‘i Increased 9.7 percent in January....

...OHA’s Old Guard Trustees Giving Cash To Their Friends....

...Russian news organizations RT and Sputnik used the term GMO in more articles than HuffPost, Fox News, CNN, Breitbart and NBC combined....

...All members of the committees voted “yes” on the bill, except Rep. Andria Tupola and Rep. Bob McDermott .... We were asked to vote without our members having seen a written draft of the revised bill....

...Hawaii’s total consumer debt per capita of $64,642 averaged more than $20,000 above the nation....

...Hawaii shines in one area of 'best states' ranking....

...Committee members asked some very telling questions that identified loopholes that still remain in the bill.  The Attorney General's representative couldn't definitively state that all their concerns from the 2017 version were resolved in this current version that is supposed to have more robust protections.... 

...House Bill 4135 passed the Oregon Senate 17-12. While the stated intent of the bill’s authors was to update the advance directive, it also paves the way for healthcare representatives to remove access to food and water for vulnerable Oregonians with dementia and Alzheimer’s....

1. Peter S. Hoffmann
2. Duane Kanuha
3. Albert Nahale-a

...Hawaii Annual Taxes on Home Priced at State Median Value -- $1,459 (33rd–highest)....

...The results from this year’s NCS ....

...On Tuesday, February 27th, the Hawaii state Senate Committee on Judiciary will hold a decision making hearing on Senate Bill 2046 and Senate Bill 2436.  The committee is only accepting written testimony for this hearing....

...The immense political influence of public sector unions appeared imperiled Monday, as several justices of the U.S. Supreme Court grilled labor lawyers over the constitutionality of mandatory union dues....

...NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that school’s security preparedness, the failure of America’s mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Check System or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement....

With this information out in the open, what is left for Crabbe to blackmail Trustees with?

...Do the problems in our classrooms have anything to do with special funds at all?....

...Supreme Court to hear Trump v Hawaii April 25, 2018....

... Insurance companies denied treatment to patients, offered to pay for assisted suicide ....

...just 14 traditional public schools offer AP Computer Science....

...House Health & Human Services and House Judiciary Committee have scheduled a joint hearing on HB2739--assisted suicide--Tuesday, February 27, 2018 @ 10:30 a.m. in Hawaii State Capitol auditorium.... 

...The Heritage Foundation hosted on Friday, February 23, 2018, a panel discussion, “Time to Reform the Jones Act?”....

...the court held they could be held liable, even though it is their home, first concluding that renting out a room in your home qualifies as offering a public accommodation, even though it is your residence....

...All House bills are in their final committees, they have until March 8th to pass out of their last committee and pass third reading to cross over to the Senate....

...Hawaii takes the longest in the nation to make decisions about transparency disputes....

...politicians striking a fashionable pose against corporations and business, fearmongering by special interest groups with an agenda....

...Cycling lanes consume more space than they free up, add to pollution and drain the public purse....

...the oft-cited, debate-driving statistic that Americans use 500 million plastic straws a day is the product of a 9-year-old's guesstimations....

...HTA’s autonomy, which includes permanent funding and an exemption from the State Procurement Code, has facilitated lax oversight, deficient internal controls, and, ultimately, less accountability....

...Sewage poured out of Caldwell's plants for ten hours starting 2pm Sunday Feb 18....

...More than 69 million passengers in Honolulu ride TheBus annually....

...This Time She's Promising To Clean Up OHA After The State Audit Results....

...Hawaii ranks as 4th most expensive state for aging parents, study finds....

...Residents of Hawaii spend, on average, 36.2% of their monthly paychecks on credit card, student loan, and housing payments—the highest percentage in the nation....

...Some states are more well-behaved than others....

...Brig. Gen. Kenneth Hara today released the All Hazards Preparedness Improvement Action Plan and Report....

"...As fiduciaries, Trustees must act immediately...."

...Hawaii General sales tax collections per capita: $2,090 (the highest in USA)....

...Hawaii is in the North Pacific, not the North Atlantic....