...two days after they lost their bought n paid for judge....

...Saturday, February 3, 2018 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Campus Center Ballroom from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m....

...Hawaii still leads nation in homeless count per capita....

...The rating is tempered by significant expense pressures across the 10-campus system, declining enrollments, and extensive capital needs with a large backlog of deferred maintenance....

...Takayama has served as the director of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) since April 2015. She will assume her new position on Monday, Dec. 11....

...2017’s States with the Best Elder-Abuse Protections....

...A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit heard arguments Wednesday....

...It was difficult to have to break the news to the parents that our findings did not result in charges against a perpetrator....

...The Hawai'i Auditorʻs Performance Audit Of OHA Is About To Be Publicly Released....

“This is like thinking a man pointing a gun at you wouldn’t figure out how to pull the trigger and kill you,”  Ward said.

...Judge Crandall's husband, David Schulmeister, and his law firm, Cades Schutte, represented the Kamehameha Schools, billing as much as $1 million a year....

...It may also lead to speculation that Pasha and the shipbuilder Keppel have not yet completed their ship design....

• Senate: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Proceed
• Senate: Tax Overhaul - Education Savings Accounts
• Senate: Tax Overhaul - Passage
• House: National Forest Mining
• House: Federal Workforce Probationary Period Extension
• House: EPA Brownfields Program Reauthorization
• House: Manufactured Housing Lending Regulation

The Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancies in the First Circuit (Oahu)....

...Interior will make sure local voices are not drowned out by “large, well-funded NGOs and special interests”....

...The Department of Justice asked the justices to lift lower court orders barring enforcement of the proclamation while legal challenges are adjudicated....

...In or around November 2009, Respondent Kanazawa-Yee and two other ACOs, ACO A and ACO B, planned to obtain money from Inmate....

...where are all the protesters?....

...The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received an application from the Lalamilo Wind Company LLC for an incidental take permit of the endangered Hawaiian hoary bat and the endangered Hawaiian petrel....

"Gabbard’s life would be unrecognizable without Butler’s influence.”

...Seniors in Hawaii are sick less often than those in any other state....

...the Tax Administration Special Fund is becoming an all-purpose slush fund for which corrective action is needed....

...this audit will, according to the SOQ, "provide recommendations on organizational, structural and procedural improvement[s] to strengthen the BOT's fiduciary oversight of the OHA and its LLCs."...

... no politician would want to get caught saying they supported limiting the number of  hospitals, dialysis facilities or MRI machines for rural areas.  And yet, that’s exactly what Hawaii's legislature has done ....

...Did you know that not all of our keiki get equal funding for school?....

...justice, reparation and healing for those individuals who were violated decades ago....

...regulations have also tended to reduce the supply of housing, including multifamily and low-income housing....

...“When marine mammals strand themselves it’s usually a signal that something in our environment is out of sync,” said Ing (wrongly)....

...nationwide injunctions foster forum-shopping for sympathetic judges....

...legal marijuana users in the state have been receiving letters from the Honolulu Police Department ordering them to turn in their legally owned firearms....

...a standing order to allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone....

...Gov. Ige will participate in discussions with U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao....

...These two factors combined mean Hawai‘i Energy operated at its most efficient, lowest cost of acquired savings ever....

...Through the first ten months of 2017 visitor spending exceeded results from the same period last year (+6.8% to $13.86 billion)....

...care for only one child in Hawai‘i consumes approximately 13 percent of the typical Hawai‘i family’s income....

...These gun surrender letters were first sent in September 2016....

...The executive order establishes an Administrative Director in the Office of the Governor who will support companies seeking to test self-driving vehicle technology in Hawaiʻi....

...The County wants to fill nine vacancies on the Cost of Government Commission, representing each of the nine Council Districts....

...beginning Friday, residents will hear the nuclear warning siren on the first business day of every month just before noon....

...Mana ka Lahui--what's their hidden agenda?....

...the State of Hawaii Dashboard and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Dashboard are only current up to 2013 for most of the categories presented....

...States such as Hawaii with especially high costs of living had ratios of debt-to-adjusted income of 26.43%, compared to the overall average of 15.9 percent....

...Monsanto took first place, scoring an impressive 91.6 percent....

...The complex system of the future that many of us envision — what some call Utility 2.0 — will require dynamic price setting....

...Actually, life is better now than it ever has been.  And the last 25 years have been very prosperous for humanity.  But lets not let reality get in the way of eco-socialism....

...DLIR did not file statutorily required reports for non-general funds and for administratively created funds....

...Earlier this year, the Honolulu City Council adopted Resolution 16-213 requesting the city administration to initiate eminent domain proceedings for several streets in Kaka‘ako....

...Challengers in Hawaii and Maryland responded today to the government’s request to have the Supreme Court intervene....

...Marijuana users in Honolulu are expected to turn over all firearms and ammunition to the state within 30 days of receiving the notice, according to a letter signed by police chief Susan Ballard....

... but Hawaii ranks 5th in Percentage of Population who Donate Time ....