But Hawaii is #1 for “highest percentage of the population spending more than they make”....

...every state receives a Report Card that grades the state on 41 key legislative components that must be addressed in a state’s laws....

...a confusing patchwork of different laws around the country, driving up the cost of food as much as $500 to every American family....

...the extremely wealthy establish various special interest groups dedicated to crafting draconian regulations in the name of the public good, tackling hot-button social issues, and riling the hopes of easily led ideologues....

...new and important cases were decided by the Hawaii courts this year....

...The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued a unanimous opinion in Friends of Makakilo v. D.R. Horton-Schuler Homes, LLC....

Under the TBOR, tax increases and significant government borrowing had to be presented to the voters before they could take effect....

Destruction of their crops would be an unconstitutional taking without just compensation, the farmers say....

... effective January 1, 2015, persons with disability parking permits will be charged the standard parking rate at city parking lots ....

In a hastily called faculty and staff meeting at the Cancer Center at about 2:30 p.m. Friday....

Hawaii’s state campaign spending commissioners want the Honolulu city prosecutor to investigate a case brought by former Gov. Ben Cayetano against Pacific Resource Partnership’s political action committee....

The team estimates the new system will reduce electricity usage by more than all of the utility scale photovoltaic systems currently operating in Hawaii....

5,454 individuals (38%) were continuing clients from FY 2013....

"...the Pono Choices survey instruments ... are part of an ongoing research project...."

"We actually share some important common goals with the Sovereignty activists."

...will lose their rural designation that allows acute care facilities within their boundaries to receive extra payments as critical access hospitals....

Senator Slom discusses  Police Reform with Prof Aaron Hunger....

...Hawaii taxpayers can now breathe easier because he was defeated in the Democratic primary....

...fight for an allocation model that allows tuition money to follow the students....

...Hawaii’s $30-billion unfunded liability per resident is $21,852, the seventh highest in the nation....

...to conduct a tour of the Army installations here to get a first-hand view of capabilities of the units....

We crunched the numbers using the six criteria below to determine if the state you live in is prime habitat for a downer of a Thanksgiving....

...Families are changing, with fewer married couples and more single-parent families and cohabiting unions....

...life amid the palm trees can cost, especially at quality nursing facilities and hospitals. Special needs transport is adequate, but work commutes are time-consuming....

...the number of states sharing teacher performance information with educator preparation programs has more than tripled....

If current trends hold, the black hole will grow 'like a cancer' (hint, hint) and swallow the entire system....

It's Official - The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Have Committed An Illegal Act....

From 2011 to 2013, Carlson was the deputy joint base commander at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam....

Democratic leaders in Washington should put job creation ahead of the ravings of environmental wing-nuts and their deep pocketed billionaire funders....

State Senator Sam Slom is interviewed by Keali’i Akina on the November 10 edition of “Think Tech Hawaii”....

...the voters agreed that there's no good reason to keep the JSC lists secret, the same result as the lawsuit....

...the state may one day be forced to break the promise it made to its employees regarding their pensions and benefits....

The students have decided that the concessions granted by the interim Chancellor are not enough....

Fuchigami had been tapped by Mayor Kirk Caldwell last month to lead the city’s Department of Enterprise Services....

...adults 20 and older represented 84 percent of bicyclist fatalities in 2012, compared to only 21 percent in 1975....

Hawaii has employed gimmicks to give the appearance of fiscal improvements in their entitlement programs....

...this proposed transaction undervalues the Company to the detriment of Horizon’s shareholders....

SunEdison to become world's largest renewable energy development company....

The homeless are everywhere but a national report shows Hawaii is 6th lowest for child homelessness....

Senate: Child Care and Development Block Grant - Cloture

House: Keystone XL Pipeline - Passage

HCDA will be having at least 3 meetings on Tuesday, November 25th….just 6 days before the Ige Administration is installed....

DLNR sued the County of Hawaii for its ban on aerial hunting....

Does this mean the Ige administration will break from the HSTA and propose a publicly funded voucher program so we can all give taxpayer money to private schools?

For many rural hospitals, partnering with big health systems is the only hope for survival....

The Tax Foundation just released its 2015 State Business Tax Climate Index....

State Office of Planning Hosting a Series of Stakeholder Meetings to Discuss 'Improvements' to the State’s Land Use System....

...the ban will "probably bankrupt Molokai"....