...the Jones Act, Federal Regulation, politics in Washington, and other issues that impact Hawaii....

... In the past three years, violent crime increased 29% ....

...$4,540 a year in tax revenue per resident....

...Asian-Americans must score 140 points higher on their SATs than white students, 270 points higher than Hispanic students, and 450 points higher than black students....

...Aging fuel storage tanks at Red Hill could soon get an upgrade....

...Top HTA Exec solicited thousands of dollars in travel perks from Hawaiian, JAL, Starwood, China Air, and others.... 

...government’s real job is to out of the way, not create more costly programs that don’t work....

...four alternatives proposed for the facility....

...The Hawaii State Department of Education and TransPar have saved the state approximately $13 million annually through the Get on Board student transportation initiative....

• Senate: Nielsen Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Balash Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations
• House: Tax Overhaul – Motion to Request Conference
• House: Concealed Carry Reciprocity Between States
• House: Small Business Mergers Regulatory Exemption
• House: Short-Term Fiscal 2018 Continuing Appropriations

...Sapolu has worked as a Deputy Prosecutor since 2011....

...global warming is just an excuse for tax hikes and rate hikes....

...Deadline for GIA applications is January 19, 2018....

...The requirements outlined in the Decision and Order include....

...Hawai‘i legalized payday lending in 1999 as a way to regulate the check cashing business.... 

...The seeming political power play is actually a sign of Perreira’s weakness.... 

...This will give Warren Buffett et al a chance to “walk the walk” and pay millions more....

...Native American student group accuses Polynesian dance group of ‘appropriating Hawaiian and Tahitian culture’....

...The U.S. Census Bureau released its 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates on December 7, 2017....

...The pilot program requires the rideshare drivers to pay 7 percent of each fare to the state Airports Division....

The Defense Department is starting the first agencywide financial audit in its history....

...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....