...the loan would be repaid through revenues generated by a special assessment on the borrowers' real-property tax bills....

To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not include totals for effectuated enrollments.....

The legislative session has yet to even begin, and House leaders are already poised to fast-track a set of blanket exemptions for power producers....

State-backed Loans: $89M to Companies Tied to OHA Chair Robert Lindsey....

... DoI Adds 2,000 Pro Fed-Wreck Testimonies -- Many Dated After 12/30 Deadline ....

Statewide, about 18.5% of two-adult couples with no children and 45.5% of two-adult couples with two children had incomes below the self-sufficiency standard....

DHHL pushes funding parity, urges no further delay in funds to beneficiaries....

A case that we've been following with some mild amusement has reached the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...a net increase of $297.6 million in FY 2017, an increase of 4.4%....

AUL’s 2016 Life List Ranks the 50 States Based on How Well Women are Protected from Abortion Industry Abuses....

"...students will learn core principles of science and will see the relevance of community initiatives, such as moving to solar energy, limiting waste, encouraging recycling and reducing water usage with low-flow toilets...."

...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....

...another vote on Bill 23 (2015), CD1 - Relating to the Transportation Surcharge, will be required of Committee members at the Budget Committee meeting on Wednesday....

Many of Hawaii's political and business leaders are wanna-be dope dealers....soon we will find out which....

On Friday, Governor John Kasich's presidential campaign filed the necessary paperwork to appear on the Hawaii Republican primary ballot....

This morning, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the requirement in California that government employees, such as public school teachers, pay fees to the local union even if they choose not to join the union....

The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....

We are only days away from the opening of the Hawaii State Legislature....

This all began in Hawaii in 2011 when Act 195 was passed....

Serious students of history may wonder what is going on. There is, after all, a federal law that prevents Hawaii taxes from touching an airline’s gross income....

Hawaii Business Magazine published in its January 2016 issue an article entitled “Change Agents” profiling four Hawaiian activists and describing their visions for Hawaii....

Implementing K–12 programs in computer, engineering or biomedical science....

I don’t know whether or not I want to cry or scream today....

...the Obama Interior Department’s proposed regulation would be contrary to laws against racial discrimination and would be an unconstitutional end-run around Congress, which has repeatedly rejected legislation granting tribal status to Native Hawaiians....

...DLNR Officer “was fired (from Honolulu PD) in 2013 after he falsified records and lied to investigators about transporting a female runaway, who was underage.”....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

One of the leases at Banyan Drive has expired and has been placed on a month-to-month revocable permit. Other leases at Banyan Drive and in the Kanoelehua Industrial Area will expire in the next several years....

...Department of Health (DoH) officials faced scathing rebukes for doing their job well....

$104 million in omissions combine with mystery spending cuts to create unrealistic budget scenario....

... states with low levels of support tend to have higher per capita tax collections and populations with lesser reliance on federal assistance ....

One hundred and fifty years ago the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished....

...Grassroot Institute Calls Na'i Aupuni Process an Embarrassment to the Hawaiian People....

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Neal Blaisdell Center, Hawaii Suite....

Hawaii's Industrial Hemp Research Project exceeded expectations in not only the quantity, but the quality....

...Added were Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Rowena Akana, Rosalie Lenchanko, Kalaniakea Wilson and former legislator Karen Awana....

House Minority Caucus urges NRA’s Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre to scrap nomination of Wiles Lee to their Board of Directors....

Full Transcript of Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) Floor Speech January 5, 2016....

Two of our most supportive Legislators are holding fundraisers....

A recently published study proposes a pact between the public health community and the vaping community to combat a shared enemy, Big Tobacco....

Kelii Akina and Mike Hansen discuss the Jones Act and its implications for the economy of Hawaii....

The 20th annual edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts....

If you want a crash course in Hawaii's unique (some would say weird) water law, you can't do better than this video....

"Public-Private partnerships are really hard."

The estimated cost of the removal is $3.5 million. The additional $16.5 million assigned to the project will be returned to the Harbors Division for use in other improvement projects....

...construction cost escalation for Oahu for years 2013 and 2014 has averaged 10.3% per year....

...“We are happy" -- Burning Anti-Cane Activists ....