...currently, the state pension plan is only about 61% funded....

Candidates may apply online at www.honolulu.gov/nco ....

Hawaii remains at the bottom of the list for voter registration and turnout....

Tuesday, January 27th at 6:30 p.m. during the Church with No Walls service at Nanaikapono Protestant Church....

3,500 is far short of the 130,000 cited by Kissel in a Nov 28 Star-Adv interview as a break-even figure for the Connector....

...to design and test health care payment and service delivery models that will improve health care quality and lower costs....

Benjamin has served on the Hawaiʻi Board since 2007 and has worked closely with Conservancy staff....

...Any Oahu resident who will be at least 18 years of age by February 20, 2015 can be a candidate....

The city has prepared the real property assessment notices for 2015, and the total assessed valuation of all taxable real property on Oahu has increased from $200.74 billion to $214.90 billion....

...The study examines environmental costs for cars' entire life cycle, including where power comes from and the environmental effects of building batteries....

...resulting in employers paying $50 million less in taxes, or $100 less per employee on average for 2015....

...it's jarring that the first order of business under new leadership is to challenge OIP's solid ruling that seeks to keep OHA's business transparent....

• Senate: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Motion to Concur
• House: Fiscal 2015 Omnibus Appropriations - Passage

Study sheds new light on e-cigarette behaviors in teens as regulators consider curbing sales to minors....

NextEra paid just $88 million in taxes on earnings of nearly $7 billion. That’s a tax rate of just 1.25 percent when the statutory rate is 35 percent....

...when a Hawaii taxpayer reaches $200,000 in federal adjusted gross income, a number of bad things happen that, in total, can result in a marginal tax rate of 367,100% on that last dollar....

...ordered by the college administration to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day....

From 2009 to 2011, he served as the FBI liaison officer to a counter-narcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii. In 2012, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division....

according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations....

It was done in 2002 and 2006 and it can be done again....

...urban trends are driven more by the masses and less by the political, academic and "environmental" elites that love to dictate how the hoi polloi should live....

Low Ranking on Small Business Policy Index Points to Need for Economic Reform....

Deal after deal has fallen through...The Entergy Merger Failure....The Constellation Energy Merger Failure....

...there’s a big difference between insurance coverage and access to health care services....

WalletHub ranked the 100 most populated U.S. cities to find the ones that offer the most cost-effective and accessible fitness and sports facilities....

The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....

FreeHawaii looks at Kelii Akina's interview with Leon Siu....

“Evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are being used by students who are not cigarette smokers....”

...the “2014 Congressional Pigbook,” published by the Citizens Against Government Waste identifies federal government “pork” spending in the millions of dollars in Hawaii....

Hawaii’s strengths include low prevalence of obesity and low rate of preventable hospitalizations; state’s challenges include high prevalence of binge drinking and high incidence of infectious disease....

...the LUC violated petitioners’ constitutional rights....

“The only thing these churches have done is serve the schools and bring great benefit to their surrounding communities. They don’t deserve to be dragged through court any longer by two people who are seeking financial gain by attacking these congregations.”

“It takes a lot of energy to extract and process solar-grade silicon,” says co-author Seth Darling. “And in China, that energy tends to come from dirtier and less efficient energy sources...."

...Robert K. Lindsey Jr. is the Trustee who put Sen Brickwood Galuteria on the payroll of Peletron Inc while Galuteria was pushing against his own community for OHA's Kakaako Makai schemes....

...On Aug. 3,  2013, Sherbow sent an email to the FBI and the media with the headline “Cutting Off Tulsi Gabbard’s Head.”....

...legislation to prohibit the federal government from “mandating, incentivizing or coercing” states to adopt the national education standards known as Common Core....

List of candidates who have filed as of Dec 7, 2014....

Grassroot President Keli’i Akina speaks with Darrel Galera (President) and Roberta Mayor (Board Member) of the Hawaii Center for Instructional Leadership about their work to reform education in Hawaii....

...2014’s Cities with the Highest and Lowest Population in Need....

We continue our series of pending U.S. Supreme Court cases....

...a nonprofit organization was lobbying at the State legislature, but had not filed lobbying expenditures and contributions reports with the Commission....

Today, after two decades of "political correctness", nursing grievances has become a primary theme of the popular culture.  But in the 1940s, the opposite choice was made by thousands of young Japanese Americans in Hawaii.  They stood up, volunteered to join in the war effort and proved the doubters wrong.

The average price of the seven new solar projects is 14 cents per kilowatt-hour....

Notably, five of the eleven highest performing public high schools in the state and two of the four highest-performing middle schools, as measured by Strive HI, are charter schools....

Nineteen funds and accounts did not meet criteria....

Hawaiiloa Foundation collected approximately $468,000 from approximately 200 individuals who went through the debt elimination process. Many of the individuals tried to use the bonds but ultimately lost their homes through foreclosure....