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Saturday, April 8, 2017 |
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Schatz-Connected Developer building ‘Shopping Center’ at Pupukea
By Selected News Articles @ 5:52 PM :: 11338 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Development
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...the Star-Adv omits any reference to “Hanapohaku Project Manager Linda Schatz”, also known as Mrs Brian Schatz....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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DLNR: Waikiki Eco Confab Cost Taxpayers Millions
By News Release @ 11:57 PM :: 10259 Views :: Environment, Ethics, OHA, Tourism
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...and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs ponied up $500K buying Kamanao Crabbe the chance to MC the event....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Time for change at Hawaii’s airports
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:12 PM :: 137408 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Tourism
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For Randy Perreira, head of the Hawaii Government Employees Association, the problems at Hawaii’s airports are just a matter of not enough kumbaya....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 7:13 PM :: 7960 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life
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...Upcoming Legislative Dates....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Dairy: Billionaire Developer Omidyar Creates More Precedents Farmers Can’t Follow
By News Release @ 6:37 PM :: 6623 Views :: Environment, Agriculture
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...the Makauwahi Cave Reserve be the recipient of $125,000 for a supplemental environmental project to be funded by Hawai‘i Dairy Farms....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Ige Energy Code: Increase Home Construction Costs by $4700 per unit
By News Release @ 3:56 PM :: 6244 Views :: Energy, Cost of Living
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Gov. Ige’s signing of the new IECC will pave the way for the eventual adoption of the code by Hawai‘i’s counties, requiring that all new commercial and residential construction meet the code....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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HB1022: $10M for Latest Honolulu Airport Mess
By News Release @ 3:51 PM :: 6028 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Small Business
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“Settling these claims now spares all parties years of litigation and lets HDOT use existing project monies to pay subs for the work that was done,” said Doug Chin....
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Friday, April 7, 2017 |
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Good Citizen or "Vexatious Requester"?
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:41 PM :: 7157 Views :: Ethics, First Amendment, Hawaii State Government
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When first introduced, HB1518 put forth a very worrisome proposal....
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 |
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Hawaii Pensions Underfunded by 39%
By Selected News Articles @ 7:04 PM :: 5505 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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Pension obligations must be fulfilled eventually....
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Thursday, April 6, 2017 |
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Deal Announced to Preserve Ka Iwi Coast
By News Release @ 7:00 PM :: 4697 Views :: Environment
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...ending a 40-year-long battle to preserve the area....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Hawaii 2nd-Highest Tax Burden in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 8:54 PM :: 5763 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...Total Tax Burden: 11.27% – #2 in USA....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Who lives longer: Hawaii life expectancies examined in research study
By News Release @ 8:42 PM :: 5995 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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The life expectancy at birth in Hawaii in 2010 was 82.4 years....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Who’s Hiding Behind Homes for Hawaiians?
By Video @ 5:41 PM :: 6076 Views :: DHHL, Ethics
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...A Grab For Money & Power....
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017 |
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Hawaii: Monsanto is First Farm Awarded Zero Waste Certification
By News Release @ 5:04 PM :: 8479 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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The first business in Hawaii to earn the certification, Monsanto’s Upper Kunia Farm has been focused on increasing yields while using fewer resources, and has successfully diverted 98 percent of its waste....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii Cannabis Tracking System Designed By Feds, Silicon Valley Billionaires
By Selected News Articles @ 4:26 AM :: 7366 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Drugs
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Don’t worry: You can trust the Feds and Silicon Valley with your ‘medical’ marijuana records—unless you annoy them in some way....
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017 |
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Caldwell Appoints Banker to be Deputy Director of Budget and Fiscal Services
By News Release @ 3:14 AM :: 5614 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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Most recently, Biggs developed a series of lectures for the University of Hawai‘i Shidler School of Business and Hawai‘i Pacific University providing an overview of local banks and the Hawai‘i banking market....
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Monday, April 3, 2017 |
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Survey: Hawaii Stressed over Money, not Family
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 7414 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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Hawaii Ranks #1 for Fewest Hours of Sleep per Night ....
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Monday, April 3, 2017 |
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Brian Schatz and the Story of How Senate Dems Went Anti-Israel
By Selected News Articles @ 1:29 AM :: 7251 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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Brian Schatz sold his hardly used soul for a low six figures. And George Soros probably overpaid for a worthless product....
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Sunday, April 2, 2017 |
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Carnival Cancelled Thanks to OHA Money Grab?
By Andrew Walden @ 5:32 PM :: 8874 Views :: Maui County, OHA, Small Business
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“A little over half of this increase is attributable to State wharfage charges"
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Sunday, April 2, 2017 |
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Economic Nexus: Solving the Online Tax Dodge
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4324 Views :: Taxes
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...SB 620 would redefine how our general excise tax laws define “doing business”....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Putting Patients First by Reducing Administrative Tasks in Health Care
By News Release @ 11:20 PM :: 4744 Views :: Health Care
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The authors note that their recommendations are important as the healthcare system moves toward value-based payment....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 11:06 PM :: 7523 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Life
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...14,000 Hawaii voters sign petition against assisted suicide....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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After $2B in Tax Credits, High Tech Scammers Pay Only $27M in Taxes
By News Release @ 6:35 PM :: 7110 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tax Credits, Taxes
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After burning $2B, the state received a pathetic $27.1 million in taxes from 150 companies tied to the High Technology Development Corporation....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Hawaii lawmakers barreling toward $1 billion spending increase
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:10 PM :: 5873 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Taxes
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Hawaii lawmakers would like us to believe that they are cutting the state budget in the current legislative session, but it’s not true....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Rickrolling Rail
By Robert Thomas @ 5:01 PM :: 5078 Views :: Rail
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...city officials feel they have been given the green light to get the project finished, whatever the eventual cost might be....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Video: Should Being Homeless in Hawaii be Considered an Illness?
By Video @ 4:33 PM :: 5602 Views :: Homelessness
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Question: How can we increase homelessness 100-fold?
Answer: Make housing a right.
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Abortionist Moves to Hawaii after Undercover Video Expose
By Video @ 5:14 AM :: 6125 Views :: Life
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Dr. Deborah Nucatola, former Senior Director of Medical Services for Planned Parenthood’s national operation relocated to Hawaii as the abortion giant’s Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands medical director....
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Friday, March 31, 2017 |
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Travel Ban: 9th Circuit Court Will Reverse Hawaii’s Political Hack Judge
By Selected News Articles @ 4:55 AM :: 7028 Views :: National News
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U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii "is so way out – he's such a political hack . . . that I think even the Ninth Circuit will reverse him...."
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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As Expected, EPA Rejects Anti-Pesticide Activists’ Petition to Ban Chlorpyrifos
By News Release @ 6:12 PM :: 8395 Views :: Environment, Agriculture, GMOs
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...in response to a petition from the Natural Resources Defense Council and Pesticide Action Network North America....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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OHA seeks input on upcoming budget (for three days)
By News Release @ 6:04 PM :: 5728 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) is accepting community input through March 31...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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OHA issues two more business loans
By News Release @ 6:00 PM :: 6070 Views :: OHA, Small Business
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...two Hua Kanu business loans, totaling $450,000, to Reliant Trucking Inc. and Goldwings Supply Service Inc....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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UHERO: Electric Car Batteries Part of Plan to Go 100% Renewable
By UHERO @ 5:58 PM :: 4997 Views :: Energy
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...plan to achieve 100% renewable power on Oahu by 2045, subject to a 5% limit on biofuel....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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Micronesian students head to International Robotics Competition
By News Release @ 5:10 AM :: 6599 Views :: Education K-12, National News
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The famously traditional Island of Stone Money is sending top students to a high tech global robotics competition....
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Thursday, March 30, 2017 |
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Senate WAM Budget -- $386M More Spending than House
By News Release @ 2:28 AM :: 5316 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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HB100 HD1 SD1 proposes reducing the Governor’s budget request by $114 million in general funds over the biennium -- The House version reduced the Governor's increase in spending by $500M....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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All Talk, No Action: State’s Low Refugee Count Works Against Hawaii v Trump
By Selected News Articles @ 7:38 PM :: 6501 Views :: National News, Hawaii Statistics
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Just 20 out of more than 530,000 refugees settled in the United States since 2010 were brought to Hawaii....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Report: Big island Hotspot for ‘Premature Death’
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 5913 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Rates of youth disconnection are higher in rural counties than in urban counties....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Sabotage in Store for OHA Audit?
By Video @ 5:17 PM :: 5611 Views :: Ethics, OHA
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...Two Strategies That Could Compromise The Audit & Who Might Want That To Happen....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Trump Economy: Visitor Spending Increases 11.5% in February 2017
By News Release @ 4:13 PM :: 5091 Views :: Tourism
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...the average daily census rose 4.9 percent to 240,382 visitors per day....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Doubling Hawaii’s Food Production?
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:52 PM :: 5286 Views :: Agriculture
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...The Governor did, at least, stop short of calling it his “Five Year Plan”....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Hawaii Dithers while Telescope Prepares to Build on Canary Islands
By News Release @ 5:02 AM :: 6020 Views :: Higher Education, OHA
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On October 31st, 2016, the TIO Board of Directors selected the ‘Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos’ (ORM), in La Palma, on the Canary Islands (Spain) as the alternate site for TMT....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Travel Ban: Hawaii Judge’s Ruling Based on Fake DHS Document
By Selected News Articles @ 4:38 AM :: 7797 Views :: National News, Ethics
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On February 24, AP reporters Vivian Salama and Alicia Caldwell published an AP “exclusive”: “DHS report disputes threat from banned nations.”....
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017 |
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Cover-up: How Wind Farms Hide Bird and Bat Kills
By Selected News Articles @ 1:29 AM :: 7600 Views :: Energy, Environment
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If it were not for groups like Audubon and the Sierra Club etc. making millions off dead eagles and endangered species through mitigation, these groups would probably have a completely different opinion about wind energy’s “incidental take” permits....
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 |
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Taxpayer Return on Investment? Hawaii ranks 49th
By Selected News Articles @ 8:15 PM :: 5443 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...contrasting state and local tax collections with the quality of the services residents receive....
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 |
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FCC, DHHL Ask: Exclusive License to Criminal Al Hee Company Illegal?
By News Release @ 7:04 PM :: 7151 Views :: DHHL, Ethics
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...DHHL granted an exclusive license “in perpetuity” to Criminal Al Hee. Now he's in prison....
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Monday, March 27, 2017 |
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Here's why rail is going to cost $12 to $13 billion
By Honolulu Traffic @ 11:27 PM :: 6016 Views :: Rail
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...this project started with a rock solid $5.3 billion projection cost....
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Monday, March 27, 2017 |
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Hawaii Ranks Among Worst States to be a Doctor
By News Release @ 8:43 PM :: 6321 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Avg Annual Wage for Physicians (adj for cost of living) – 50th....
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Monday, March 27, 2017 |
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Hawaii Suicide Bill Would Have Let Nurses Diagnose Fatal Illness and Prescribe Death Pills
By Selected News Articles @ 8:30 PM :: 6840 Views :: Health Care, Life
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People with years or decades to live may qualify for assisted suicide....
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