'Screening': Syria is 10% Christian, 'Refugees' are 2% Christian....

Deirdre Marie-Iha, a lawyer from the Hawaii Attorney General's Office, asks for help defending against a free speech case....

"Commercial aquarium fish collecting, in fact, does not occur to any great extent off most of the Hawaiian Islands...."

Of 19 departments and agencies surveyed, 14 said capital improvement projects (CIPs) should not be handled centrally by the Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS)....

According to the NYT, so far no Syrian refugees have been resettled in Hawaii....

Hawaii Ranks 44th with a 6.3% Tax Rate....

House and Senate proposals to rewrite No Child Left Behind are set to head into conference early next week....

Offshore wind is 2.6 times more expensive as onshore wind power and is 3.4 times more expensive than power produced by a natural gas combined cycle plant....

...it will likely move public sentiments substantially in one direction and Establishment policies in quite the opposite....

...we at Hawai’i Free Press tried a novel approach—actually contacting FTA spokespeople in Washington to see what they had to say about it....

It’s bad enough having a state hold an election that is racially discriminatory. Now we have a judge willing to allow it to move forward....

Four responses have been filed before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to last week’s “Urgent Motion for Injunction”....

Hawaii-West Coast products deliveries have to be done by costly Jones Act tankers....

...the FTA has not reached out to HART and officials were not aware the money was in jeopardy....

Residential time-of-use rates would be most beneficial for customers who are able to use more electricity during the middle of the day until 4 p.m....

In Hawaii there are more than 14,000 women veterans; only 4,300 access their benefits and health care through the VA....

...how can the outcome be “rigged”....

The current Chipotle E-Coli outbreak offers an opportunity for shoppers to understand the true nature of the USDA’s organic certification program....

"...you are the executive director for the organization that received well over a half a million dollars for this Na'i Aupuni process...."

...what will the train’s power bill be for decades to come?....

Fundamental Change: Innovation in America's Schools under Race to the Top....

...Hawaii only granted permits to U.S. citizens until a federal judge in Honolulu last year ruled that's unconstitutional.  The department is trying to get around that ruling....

Nov. 12 at UH Campus Center Ballroom 5:30pm to 7:30pm....

Hawaii’s civil forfeiture laws are among the nation’s worst....

...the Illinois veterans are allowed to continue voting in Illinois by absentee ballot ... if they reside in the Northern Mariana Islands (“NMI”),  American Samoa, or in a foreign country, but not if they reside in Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands....

If we want to see more responsible and accountable government, then it's up to the public to set the standard for what ethical government looks like....

...the War on Poverty has launched a massive bureaucracy and a plethora of government programs that have negatively impacted the American family....

"As local workers prepare to begin work at the TMT site, we want to remind people of other simultaneous activities that may be occurring on the mountain.”

A rate that is higher -- above the existing energy charge rate -- from 4 p.m. to midnight (on-peak hours)....

July, 2015: East Oahu: 400 Testify Against Federal Takeover of Maunalua Bay....

Hawaii and Virginia were the last two states in the nation without a law specifically criminalizing sex trafficking; however, 2015 legislative gains in Virginia left Hawaii behind....

Corporations Buying Influence? Native Hawaiian Election Throws Out All the Rules....

Be sure to watch the U Missouri Mass Communications Professor looking for “some muscle over here”....

Raising a family in the Aloha State comes at a high price....

...project expenditures are $1,637M, $1,581M or $1,512M, depending on which report one looks at....

The uninsured rate pre-Obamacare was 7.89 percent and has fallen to a current rate of 5.27 percent, with 31,653 persons gaining health insurance....

88% of Hawaii residents agree there should be a way for science and Hawaiian culture to co-exist on Maunakea....

...her name does not appear on a copy of the print version of the Oahu ballot....

Nationally, Veterans Treatment Courts are serving an estimated 13,200 veterans who would otherwise be incarcerated....

"The ratio of homeless veterans to the veteran population is 28 times higher in San Francisco than in Virginia Beach, Va"

instead of getting credited for the full retail rate for the energy they produce, customers will be credited for a fixed rate between 15 cents and 28 cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the island....

Lobbyists thrive in land of sunshine....

Here's the trick.  The 'second' biofuel plant will soon be the 'only' biofuel plant....

...Tokuda, Kahele, Kenoi, Hannemann, Hughey, Takamine....

"There is no evidence that the Galuterias repaid the back property taxes on the Pakui Street residence...."