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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Honolulu Green Light-Red Light Ratio Designed to Jam Up Traffic
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 4:58 AM :: 4731 Views :: Honolulu County
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...A well managed arterial street should have at least a 7:3 green-to-red ratio--Honolulu has the opposite....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Hawaii School System Quality Ranks 42nd
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 AM :: 5127 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...With school resuming session, many parents might be wondering whether they’ve selected the best school to secure their children’s academic success....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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US News Ranks Best Hospitals in Hawaii
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 AM :: 5609 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Ratings for 28 Hospitals in Hawaii....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Senatorial Candidates John Carroll and Makani Christensen Challenge Senator Brian Schatz to Debate
By News Release @ 4:03 AM :: 6434 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Politicians
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We will be conducting a press conference to Challenge Senator Brian Schatz to a debate on August 4....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Maunalua Bay Recreation Advisory Committee Meets for First Time
By News Release @ 2:58 AM :: 3879 Views :: Environment
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...first official meeting on Thursday, August 18 at 6 p.m. at Koko Head Elementary School....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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DLNR Initiates Public Comment Period to Post One Sign at Marina
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 3750 Views :: Small Business
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DOBOR’s Hawai‘i district office received a request from one of the six commercial operators moored in Keauhou bay to install a sign in order to identify their business to their customers....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Chief Justice Seeks Public Comment on Judicial Nominees
By News Release @ 2:41 AM :: 4470 Views :: Judiciary
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...for two vacancies – one in the District Court of the Fifth Circuit (island of Kauai) upon the retirement of Judge Trudy K.T. Senda in December, and one in the District Family Court of the Third Circuit (island of Hawaii) as a result of the retirement of Judge Lloyd X. Van De Car....
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Thursday, August 4, 2016 |
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Hawaii Scores B+ for Laws That Help Expecting and New Parents
By News Release @ 2:25 AM :: 4454 Views :: Family
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...A State-by-State Analysis of Laws That Help Expecting and New Parents....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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Truth and Transparency Lacking at OHA
By Video @ 7:51 PM :: 6615 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA
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What Are The Two Most Important Things To Look For In OHA Candidates?
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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CD1 Special Election Set for General Election Day
By News Release @ 7:45 PM :: 5937 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Office of Elections
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Nomination papers will be made available, beginning on Monday, August 15, 2016, at the Office of Elections....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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Hawaii Offshore Windfarms An Expensive ‘Political Agenda’
By Selected News Articles @ 7:34 PM :: 5949 Views :: Energy
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...the Interior Department is accepting bids for offshore wind leases in two areas off the Hawaiian island of Oahu....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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Hawaiian Electric Begins Peddling Batteries
By News Release @ 7:01 PM :: 4423 Views :: Energy
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Barrons: Hawaii Only Place Anybody is Talking About Solar Battery Storage....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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Honolulu Ethics Commission Appoints New Director
By News Release @ 6:49 PM :: 4595 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Ms. Yamane previously served as the Acting State Auditor....
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016 |
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Elderly 45.8% More Likely to Suffer Traffic Fatality
By News Release @ 5:28 PM :: 3244 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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Traffic fatalities, 65 and older: 9.1 per 100,000....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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TOU Pricing: A Cool New Way to Raise Your Electric Rates
By UHERO @ 10:13 PM :: 4402 Views :: Energy
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...The proposed rates have the highest cost during the on-peak period from 5pm to 10pm....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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Will Olympic Visitors Bring Zika Back With Them?
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 4024 Views :: Health Care
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...the 2016 Summer Olympic Games are set to begin at the end of this week in Rio de Janeiro....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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Caldwell Hammered on Bank Job, Lack of Ethics
By News Release @ 7:59 PM :: 5786 Views :: Honolulu County, Ethics
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...Caldwell collects not only a $164,928 annual pay check from taxpayers but continues to 'work' a second job at a bank collecting an additional $200,000 per year....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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Why are more Micronesians coming to Hawaii?
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:28 PM :: 8865 Views :: National News, Homelessness
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...why they’ve chosen to leave their home islands....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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Hawaii Medicare: 50% of Payments to be on Incentive Plan
By News Release @ 5:28 AM :: 4375 Views :: Health Care
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...pay providers for achieving results in lieu of a traditional fee-for-service model....
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016 |
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Feds Contradict Caldwell: Hawaii Veteran Homelessness Only Down 3%
By News Release @ 3:57 AM :: 5677 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Homelessness
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...Feds say in Hawaii the drop was only 3% not the 58% claimed by Caldwell....
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Monday, August 1, 2016 |
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Papahānaumokuākea Expansion Public Meetings
By News Release @ 2:53 PM :: 6330 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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Meetings set for Oahu and Kauai ....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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Walk-in Voting Begins Monday Aug 1
By News Release @ 10:41 PM :: 5449 Views :: Office of Elections
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...Qualified Hawaii residents may now register and vote on the same day, at Early Walk-In Locations....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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A Dream and a Vision
By Joni Kamiya @ 5:46 PM :: 7708 Views :: Environment, Second Amendment, Small Business
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...the Hunting, Farming, and Fishing Association....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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On Rail, Caldwell Stonewalls Council, Legislature, and Feds
By News Release @ 5:34 AM :: 5976 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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...Kirk Caldwell has done everything possible to evade questioning and withhold the details of the rail project....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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Time for the Subcontract Deduction to Be Upended? Hafa Adai!
By Tom Yamachika @ 5:01 AM :: 4963 Views :: Taxes
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The special treatment applies only to subcontractors....
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Sunday, July 31, 2016 |
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Hawaii Budget: Taxes on the Horizon
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:35 AM :: 5147 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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At the rate Hawaii is spending and taxing, projected budgets will only be sustainable for two more years....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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SB2077: Randy Perreira Face-Saving Bill
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:49 PM :: 5748 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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...kabuki theater aimed at baffling and confusing union members to make it look like their union bosses are actually doing something for them when they’re not....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Maui County set to strangle Airbnb
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:37 PM :: 5465 Views :: Maui County
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Officials in Maui County are set to impose stringent standards upon short-term housing permitting while serving Airbnb hosts with harsh civil penalties....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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KIUC: 40% Renewable for 2016
By News Release @ 3:50 AM :: 6395 Views :: Kauai County, Energy
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...on track to burn almost 10 million gallons less oil than it did in 2006....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Almost All Hawaii Catholic School Graduates go on to College
By News Release @ 3:42 AM :: 5272 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Hawaiian Electric: Significant Alt-Energy Projects Underway Without NextEra
By News Release @ 3:37 AM :: 4479 Views :: Energy
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...projects and initiatives by Hawaiian Electric to significantly increase its production of renewable energy by the end of the decade....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Screaming Haole Trespasses on Farm, Destroys Papaya Trees
By Joni Kamiya @ 3:35 AM :: 10007 Views :: Agriculture, GMOs
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...A Caucasian woman came up to my dad as he was working on the field and started yelling at him that he was poisoning her....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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High Tech Corporate Welfare: State Gives Away Another $3.2M of Your Tax Dollars
By News Release @ 3:23 AM :: 4704 Views :: Tax Credits
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$3,273,533 in funding from two grant programs to 13 Hawaii companies to help support development of new products....
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Saturday, July 30, 2016 |
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Visitor Arrivals, Expenditures Increased in First Half of 2016
By News Release @ 3:03 AM :: 4765 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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June 2016 Arrivals Up 4.2 Percent, Expenditures Gained 4.3 Percent....
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Friday, July 29, 2016 |
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Rep Kaniela Ing Caught Lying About Arrest--Claims 'Conspiracy'
By News Release @ 10:30 AM :: 20829 Views :: Maui County, Ethics, Politicians
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...Ing claims a long-running conspiracy is out to get him....
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Friday, July 29, 2016 |
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Hawaiian Leaders Call on All Voters to Participate in OHA Elections
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 4:28 AM :: 4318 Views :: OHA
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...vote for OHA Trustees in the August 13 Primary....
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Thursday, July 28, 2016 |
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Heart Association: Second Hand Marijuana Smoke Worse than Tobacco
By News Release @ 11:49 PM :: 7253 Views :: Health Care, Drugs
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Rats’ blood vessels took at least three times longer to recover function after only a minute of breathing secondhand marijuana smoke....
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Thursday, July 28, 2016 |
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DLNR: Keehi Lagoon is Caldwell’s Mess
By News Release @ 3:53 PM :: 6030 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness
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"...there might be needles and other hazardous materials in here, so we don’t want people reaching in...."
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Thursday, July 28, 2016 |
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Bernie Sanders Resigns from Democratic Party
By Selected News Articles @ 4:46 AM :: 8296 Views :: Democratic Party, Politicians
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“I was elected an independent,” Sanders told reporters at a Bloomberg-hosted breakfast the morning after....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hot Schools: DoE Prepares for Illness and Exhaustion
By News Release @ 11:12 PM :: 8138 Views :: Education K-12, Energy, Environment, Ethics
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... Schools could have been cooled already but DoE insiders had to reward crony contractors so the keiki will just have to suffer until next year ....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Secrets: 24 Candidates Fail to File Financial Disclosure
By News Release @ 10:47 PM :: 4524 Views :: Ethics
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The statutory deadline for candidates to file their financial disclosure statements with the Hawaii State Ethics Commission was Friday, July 22, 2016....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Cover Up: Jones Act Whistleblower Case Costs Matson $1M
By Michael Hansen @ 10:23 PM :: 4976 Views :: Jones Act
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...Horizon Line Inc. covered up unsafe conditions on the Jones Act containership HORIZON TRADER employed in the Puerto Rico trade....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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U.S. establishes new Jones Act enforcement arm
By Michael Hansen @ 10:18 PM :: 4804 Views :: Jones Act
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"This plainly is the outgrowth of industry lobbying to get CBP to take Jones Act enforcement more seriously."
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hawaii Capital Gains Taxes 29.2%
By Selected News Articles @ 9:57 PM :: 10457 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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...the combined federal, state, and local rate paid by the taxpayer on capital gains income....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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OHA Elections are Decided by Oahu Voters
By Video @ 7:02 PM :: 4766 Views :: OHA
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Registered To Vote On Oahu? - Hawaiian Or Not, This Message Is For You....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Honolulu Tops Cities Where Coffee Costs the Most
By Selected News Articles @ 4:52 PM :: 5409 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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The most expensive nationwide is Honolulu, where coffee costs an average of $7.56....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Hawaii Supreme Court: Hanalei Boatyard Connected to Area 51?
By Robert Thomas @ 4:20 PM :: 6998 Views :: Kauai County, Land Use
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The case involves three parcels on Kauai -- one of which is owned by a fellow who has been a thorn in the County's side....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016 |
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Lawsuit: Compel Department of Health to post long term care home inspection reports
By Selected News Articles @ 4:14 PM :: 4985 Views :: Ethics, Health Care
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You would think that posting care home inspections online would have been easy....
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