"... The prohibition of residential development via a 'perpetual easement' has too adverse of an impact on the future value of Hakuone lands ...."

"...what you’re really doing is just shifting the visitor impact around, and you’re creating new issues of congestion and use....”

... but you can settle for emotional well-being at $111,600 ....

... This unanimous ruling will allow any Hawaii governmental body to hide its corrupt dealings in bogus ‘Executive Sessions’ simply by paying a shyster to sit in and twiddle his thumbs ....

... DLNR pays $9000/mo for ‘security’ at Uncle Billy’s and somehow can’t keep the bums out.  Obviously this raid is timed to support the DLNR’s request for $12.5M to demolish Uncle Billy’s.  First Rule of Bureaucracy: “Maintain the problem” ....

... The Internal Revenue Service issued guidance today on relief payments ....

... The number of total positive COVID-19 hospitalizations has increased over the past week (3/26 – 4/4) from 39 to 74 patients, which is an 89.7% increase....

... motivating these businesses—or at least certain aspects of their business—to locate elsewhere ....

... impractical and legally dubious ....

... to provide input for the 2023 State Hazard Mitigation Plan ....

... Volunteer members of these Boards and Commissions serve for staggered terms ranging from four to five years .... 

... Your rates will be going up to pay for the infrastructure we need to make irregular and erratic wind and solar electricity less damaging to our grid ....

... In most US metro areas, millennials are buying homes at prices above the general market.  But in Honolulu millennials are buying homes 4.2% below the market average.  This is the biggest downside gap in any of the 56 large metros studied ....

... At one point, the school had racked up more than $400,000 in debt with $100,000 in undocumented expenses such as $12,000 for healing oils and acupuncture ....

... Audits can be a difficult pill to swallow ....

... adaptive reuse ....

... The bill will now move to the full Senate for a vote for 3rd Reading ....

... from Trilogy Media April, 2023: Today we’re showing up to the front door of a money mule scammer who’s expecting a check of $150,000 from a victim of a PCH/Lottery scam ....

... “It’s just four months of chaos" ....

... Has Hawaii’s corruption of FSM opened the doors to China’s corruption of FSM? ....