NAIT is an unindicted co-conspirator named in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism-financing trial of 2007-08....

... but, but, but--How can we make the humans feel guilty now? ....

...bills heard this week (HB76, HB233, and HB234) attempt to amend the law passed last summer by adding new severance options for the hospital employees....

Chief Justice Mark E. Recktenwald has appointed Brian A. Costa, Darolyn H. Lendio Heim, and Trish K. Morikawa to the District Court of the First Circuit (Island of Oahu) ....

Don’t expect the Ninth Circuit to stand in the way. It was that court that pointed the way for the Hawaii judge....

...Hawaii’s public pension system has been operating like a Ponzi scheme....

…instead of ruling on the Trump administration’s revised policy, Judge Watson has ruled on the character of Donald Trump....

The panel overwhelmingly objected to the lack of local input, transparency and scientific scrutiny in the marine monument designation process....

...Ige’s current budget overspends by $292 million next year....

...what the beneficiaries say....

The Civil Rights Commission said that Hawaii “is in a league by itself” when it comes to officially sanctioned discriminatory conduct....

... Kupuna Caregivers $70/Day Appropriation SB534 / HB607 ....

The House Health Committee is poised to pass a bill requiring pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to disseminate pro-abortion messages....

...The 26-member Judicial Conference is the policy-making body for the federal court system....

...the audit of “OHA and its subsidiaries” should include the six secretive LLCs owned by OHA....

...the claim that it is a Muslim ban is contradicted by Iraq’s removal from the list because arrangements have been made for the Iraqi government to provide the information needed for effective vetting of Iraqi nationals....

...the potential rate of return for associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, and post-graduate degrees....

MegaVote for Hawaii's 1st & 2nd Congressional Districts....

...Watchdog Group Says State Budget Must be Reevaluated....

“The Search Committee appreciates the forthright statements of a public that is unafraid to speak up and who is passionate about the education of our students...."

The House Finance Committee March 9 passed out a proposed budget that reflects slower economic growth in Hawaii based on General Excise Tax collections and projections by the State Council on Revenues....

A federal judge found that the island’s efforts to restrict voting to “native” residents violated the Constitution....

...American Telemedicine Association Releases Report Highlighting Critical Gaps in Coverage and Physician Practice Standards....

...IRLI called the court's attention to at least seven distinct provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) that authorize the President to implement the EO. Unsurprisingly, Hawaii's new complaint fails to deal with these provisions, mentioning one such provision only once and in a cursory fashion....

The caller had reported that she had seen a farmworker taken off of the field via ambulance and quickly assumed he had been poisoned....

The "shall make sufficient sums available" language is used in one more place in our constitution. It's in Article XII, Section 1, relating to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands....

Community Symposium and Complete Streets expo this Wednesday, March 15, 2017 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m....

The application deadline is April 14, 2017....

Thursday, March 9, 2017, was the deadline for bills to pass third reading in order to move (or "crossover") to the other chamber....

On the trail to Hawaii Islam Day: Saudi money, Libyan assassins, Palestinian Jihad, London bombers, Malaysian sodomy, and laughing Islamists....

He represents Bin Laden’s bodyguard for free, but charges the State of Hawaii $600/hr....

The plaintiff listed in Hawaii’s lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order on immigration is a member of an organization that has several current and former leaders tied to terrorist activity....

Hawaii’s lawsuit consists almost entirely of policy arguments as opposed to legal claims, and the legal claims that are made are far-fetched....

...5,000 Hawaii voters sign petition against assisted suicide....

With tax collections falling behind expectations, State lawmakers are pressuring the tax department to increase effort to collect uncollected taxes from internet sales....

DBEDT is measuring dollars not taxpayers. One out-of-state owner of a shopping mall, golf course, or hotel equals 1000s of individual local homeowners....

Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin, is endangering the people of the Hawaiian Islands....

This Resolution directs the State Auditor to conduct a cost comparison between completing the rail system from Middle Street to Downtown Honolulu with street level versus an elevated rail system....

It's true that the session is far from over. And this bill could certainly end up morphing yet again....

The Ninth Circuit rejected the appeal by the arcade owners and affirmed United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi’s April 30, 2014 ruling....

...why are we paying an east coast law firm for a legal cut- and-paste job which will accomplish nothing?....

It’s a litany of reasons why Hawaii and the Imam think the order is a big scary monster that’s embarrassing and keeps the Imam’s Syrian mother-in-law from visiting even though she hasn’t come to visit since 2005....

“Recent developments led the Foundation to have deep concerns that one candidate may have an unfair advantage over other applicants."

One side doesn’t have to lose in order for the other side to win....

Nothing of substance has changed....

...this policy likely would backfire and make all housing in the islands more expensive....

Senate Bill 898, sponsored by state Senator Ronald Kouchi (D-8), would permanently strip an individual of their Second Amendment rights, not based on a criminal conviction or mental adjudication, but based on a quasi-criminal proceeding....

...a Hawaii bill that would force the state’s five pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise taxpayer-funded abortions was sent along to the house Tuesday....