Long term risks to taxpayers: How Projects Get out of Control Using the Wrong Procurement Methods....

Any program changes from this proposal would apply only to new customers....

...Complications from her previous cancer treatments have arisen in recent months....

This agreement provides NextEra Energy Resources with long-term access rights to PRFT lands to develop renewable energy derived from PRFT's wind resources....

...McCain’s instant amendment would be a rider to the Keystone Pipeline legislation....

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

...Danny Kaleikini speaks in this Martin Luther King Day interview as an ambassador for racial harmony....

...the appointment of James “Duke” Aiona as interim executive director will strengthen the organization’s ability to speak for families across the state....

Republicans will gather to elect precinct and district officers, and elect delegates and alternates to the 2015 State Convention....

...it's been at least a decade since I or any agent or broker prepared a time line or ordered a condo doc....

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.”

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees has approved the following bills and resolutions to be put forward as OHA’s 2015 state legislative package....

The state has been draining money out of the rail surcharge. Lots of money....

The Alaska governor is actually required to “use best efforts and all appropriate means to persuade the United States Congress to repeal those provisions of the Jones Act formerly codified at 46 U.S.C. 861, et seq.”...

...current admin budgeting format and procedures create an open checkbook under various program areas....

...newly eligible adults will have access to addiction treatments this year, many for the first time....

Senator John McCain introduced a measure to modify the Jones Act so that American ship companies can purchase their ships from our allies....

This annual resource, dubbed “the playbook” of model legislation, combines more than 50 pieces of our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators....

The drop in crude oil prices from $112/ barrel in June of 2014 to $46/barrel today will, if sustained, provide a nice boost to Hawaii’s economy....

"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"

Doug Chin is former managing director for the City and County of Honolulu.  Randy Iwase was Supervising Deputy Attorney General whose division provided legal counsel to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Public Utilities Commission....

Tuesday January 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Kailua District Park, Multipurpose Room, 21 South Kainalu Drive....

...a new report from the Hawaii Commerce and Consumer Affairs Department shows the Connector won’t be fiscally sustainable until 2022....

...at the Wai'anae Boat Harbor, outreach workers are trying to help transition to supportive housing....

The collaborative is a partnership among four Hawaiian firms: Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation; DTL; PBR Hawai‘i; and WCIT Architecture....

At that point—and hopefully sooner—all students should have transferred to other schools....

...to fill one Maui County seat and one City and County of Honolulu seat for 5-year appointments, beginning July 1, 2015....

Firearms Policy Coalition and a dozen other civil rights groups ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on an NRA-backed lawsuit....

the text of McCain's proposed amendment repeals the US Build requirement of the Jones Act....

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders...”

...keeping the Oahu half-percent rail surcharge in place will only encourage lawmakers to increase the surcharge whenever there is a rail transit shortfall....

State land records show the couple illegally built two bed and breakfast units and operated the lucrative business for more than a decade in a conservation district in Hanalei....

Insurance Division Releases Annual Premium Comparison Guide to Help Residents Shop and Compare....

Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:30PM William S Richardson School of Law ....

The Native Hawaiian Roll Is Filled With Fraud - All Those Names Of People Lifted From Other Lists....

...for not permitting it to use their site on Maui's north shore for things like weddings....

Hawaii's Effective 13.4% rate of taxation on the poorest 20% is second only to Washington State....

Top concerns include the state economy, education, the Hawaii Health Connector, oversight of the Public Utilities Commission in light of the Hawaiian Electric Industries/NextEra merger, and positively affecting the cost of living for Hawaii residents....

The annual median wage for STEM workers (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Houston than in Honolulu....

The Affordable Care Act is now law, but controversy over the bill is far from over....

American sugar prices would be a lot lower if the government would stop interfering in the sugar market....

Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ Kewalo Basin Park- check in 6:30 am- start @ 7:00 am....

OHA's promised 'neutrality' regarding any choice between State recognition, Federal recognition or International recognition is gone....

...Caldwell announced that the rehabilitation of Kamehameha IV Road in Kalihi Valley will include a “road diet”....

Students were given a letter to take home to their parents as a reminder ....

Retailers in the gun industry say they’re being discriminated against....

...To date, the ILWU and PMA have reached tentative agreements on health care and increases to pay guarantees....