... Happy New Year and welcome to 2025! ....

... The Aloha State is finally facing the problem ....

... People inside and outside of CWS describe an uncoordinated system that works in silos and lacks proper resources and accountability. ...

...By 2035 one in four people in Hawaii will be 65 or older....

... January 6 –10, and January 13 – 16, 2025 ....

... Tuesday January 7, 2025 at 9am ....

... lawsuits challenging the Jones Act have failed to seize upon an important piece of the Constitution ....

... Those exposed to jet-fuel-contaminated drinking water from the Navy water line on Oʻahu are encouraged to fill out a short, five-minute questionnaire ....

... The nonprofit analyzed every gun law in every state ....

... 770,940 visitors in November 2024, growth of 5.3% compared to the same month last year. Total visitor spending measured in nominal dollars was $1.55 billion, up 2.0% ....

... Jan 3 and 6, 2025 ....

... fireworks explode shortly before midnight at Salt Lake home ....

... Sale price of $405M for 90.1% of ASB suggests that the sale is a 50%-off giveaway to ASB insiders ....

... dangerous and excessive quantities of opioids, early fills of opioids, and “trinity” prescriptions ....

... the Governor has signed an executive order directing the Department of Health to not use resources to address situations where a 'caregiver' is cultivating cannabis for a 'patient' ....

... It mostly comes down to one thing: housing ....

... $29 million lying around doing nothing ....

... the Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy ....

... a list of laws taking effect on January 1, 2025 ....

... Hawaii has the lowest average disposable income, $5,929 per working resident ....

"... iconoclastic inaccuracies and thought-terminating clichés ...."

... assess the readiness of the Giant Magellan Telescope (Chile) and Thirty Meter Telescope (Hawaii) to move into the major facility Final Design Phase ....

... informational briefings, to be held between January 6 through January 28, 2025 ....

... The race is noteworthy because the ‘pro-development’ candidate Cook, beat the ‘anti-development’ candidate King by 97 votes.  All it took to shift voter sentiment was Lahaina burning to the ground ....

... Honolulu residents have until January 7, 2025 to participate online ....

... OHA Trustees are hoping 2025 will be the year legislators stop laughing at their Kaka’ako Makai upzone bills ....

As presented by Hoku Paoa Stevenson at the Summer Palace....

... The word ‘plan’ occurs 526 times in this report.  The phrase ‘property rights’ occurs zero times ....

... Approximately $1.6B allocated for housing and $480M for restoration efforts ....

... two new Republican Governors ....

... The greatest statewide shortage remains in primary care, with 152 FTEs needed in total across all islands ....

... 118th Congress Decides it's Done ....

... Friday, December 20, 2024 – Candidate and Voter Registration Begins ....

... Deferred doesn’t mean dead ....

... The Honolulu City Council shelved Bill 46 while also approving bills that will actually be effective at facilitating more housing ....

... U.S. maritime jobs disappearing despite protectionist Jones Act ....

... a few requests for the people of Hawaii ....

... UH employees may negotiate and enter into contracts with the UH on behalf of their private businesses ....

... Feds, once again, doing the job the State Judiciary can/will not ....

... The Department of Taxation Requires Employers Decrease Withholding Amounts Beginning January 1, 2025 ....

... The House approved the bill by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 366-34 ....

... “birth tourism” scheme that charged Chinese clients tens of thousands of dollars to help them give birth in the United States to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their children ....

... Interior Secretary can approve American Samoa’s constitutional amendments now and in the future without unnecessary steps in Washington, D.C., that other territories do not have ....

... Hawaii will significantly modify its individual income tax brackets ....

... not for the faint of heart ....

... another $365 million is expected to be released by DOT as HART continues to meet the milestones outlined in the grant agreement ....

... the coalition plans to take concrete action by working together to leverage and enforce each state’s existing civil liability and consumer protection laws ....

... highlights FBI Honolulu’s casework in counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cyberstalking, drug and gun crimes, organized crime, violent crimes against children, white-collar crimes, and more ....

... $10.4 billion in fiscal year 2026 and $10.5 billion in fiscal year 2027, which represents an increase of $620 million (6.3%) in the first year and $664 million (6.7%) in the second year ....

... reforms implemented in 2019 have not reduced pretrial incarceration ....