The 2017 Legislative Program for the Hawai‘i State Senate is as follows....

In my past opening day speeches, I didn’t talk much about policy....

Limit opioid painkiller prescriptions to one week at a time....

...how you can raise your voice for life, family and religious freedom in Hawai'i....

The Rap Back services began retaining fingerprints for all new firearms on December 4, 2016....

...Total Cost Per Smoker: $2,048,587....

A nearly one-mile stretch of pristine coastline is adjacent to the Kahuku Golf Course....

The State of Hawaii Attorney General is looking for a Deputy Solicitor General....

In August 2016, Oahu brokerage and property management firm Re/Max Kai Lani abruptly shut their doors, disconnected their phones, and took down their website....

In the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill did....

...Total leftover income after cost of living expenses: -$367.09  Hawaii is the only state where the median earner is in the hole....

Household Gun Ownership 12.5 percent....

Listings booked more than half the year on AirBnB make up only 0.18% of Hawaii housing stock....

Twenty-two veterans have now successfully completed the First Circuit program since it was initiated by Judge Edward Kubo in 2013....

Today, there is a growing stereotype of Native Hawaiians as a monolithic group that opposes all that is American and asserts exclusive rights against the majority of others who have made Hawaii their home. This stereotype is clearly not the true picture....

Convening at 10AM ....

Modifying the HART project to allow street level operation for the final five miles will save money ($2.9 - $4.2B), will save time (completed in 2020 vs. 2025) and will provide a much more environmentally acceptable system Downtown that can be easily extended to Waikiki and UH Manoa....

On December 13, 2016, Governor Ige signed off on, and thereby finalized, significant increases in fees charged by the Department of Transportation Harbors Division....

...we have adjusted upward modestly our forecast for gross domestic product in 2017 to 2019....

... Native Hawaiians are the largest indigenous group in the United States that lacks a government-to-government relationship with the United States.  (Because 'indigenous' does not equal 'tribal'.  Hello?) ....

Hawaii CD1 has the lowest Obamacare enrollment in the USA....

The success of today’s students in the future workplace and in our communities requires an absolute reboot of the rigid school system....

The accumulation of excrement and hundreds of flies have now become a serious public health problem in the front yard of the Hawaii State Capitol....

Dr Goodman is one of four people who have most influenced the changes shaping our health care system....

...some great scores...and some very, very poor ones....

... the parcel is zoned "Hotel" but is designated on the Community Plan as "park" ....

...Writ to Watch: Hyland v. Gonzales....

...faculty need to make arrangements with their chair or dean for absence....

Just in case Ige chickens out on the ICA nomination ....

Robert Farrell retired in 2015 as Assistant Chief for the California Department of Fish and Game. After retirement, Robert went to work for DOCARE as a conservation officer assigned to the Hilo district....

Additionally, the shelters are proposing to double the number of people they place in permanent housing from approximately 3,000 to 6,200....

...the state and two federal departments formalized an agreement adding OHA as a co-trustee of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument....

... What do we have to show for $2B in High-Tech tax credits?  Nothing ....

Home Ownership More Costly Than Renting on Oahu, Maui, Big Island ....

...older adults are over-represented among pedestrian deaths....

It will be the largest solar-plus-utility-scale-battery system in the state of Hawaiʻi and one of the biggest storage systems in the world....

State lawmakers were in shock this week as Hawaii’s pension debt increased from $8 billion to $12 billion....

Case on appeal to Supreme Court challenges "chilling effect" of campaign finance law....

...states that rely heavily on federal assistance tend to have modest tax collections and a relatively large low-income population....

Heads Are Starting To Roll At The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs....

Robel was (allegedly) originally identified as a finalist (but not publicly identified) and invited to campus at the same time as finalists John V. White and Sonny Ramaswamy, (who were identified as the only two finalists) but was unable to accept the invitation at that time.  (Whatever that means.)....

From April 1, 2010 through April 30, 2014, Ponce, also known as Mary Jane Dalumpinis, was overpaid $3,723.00 in food stamp benefits....

...the OR&L ROW, a 40-foot wide stretch from Central Waipahu to Piliokahe Gulch in Nanakuli, owned by HDOT....

...the State’s first interagency and comprehensive biosecurity plan to protect Hawai‘i’s agriculture, environment, economy and health....

According to Deputy Attorney General Diane Tiara, the Hawaii Kai Homeless Map poses no legal or constitutional issues....

“Hawaii policymakers have long been warned that without a long-term plan to manage the growth of incarceration, the state could revert to conditions that led to class-action lawsuits and federal oversight."

The deadline to apply as a candidate is February 17, 2017....

The tiny anti-GMO movement in Hawaii grew into a sizable force in 2013-14, thanks largely to funding and directional support from organizations on the US mainland....