Remember This?  "Rail Construction Will Create about 10,000 jobs Each Year" ....

...ugly comments happily hoping to send people who work on these farms back to where they came from....

This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty....

...the Board itself failed to properly disclose that the “opt-out” policy was once again being considered....

The median income for families (dad present) with kids younger than 18 adjusted for cost of living is two times higher in the District of Columbia than in Hawaii....

...nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identify as multiracial....

Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)....

Clare Connors, David Louie, and Jill Otake....

2015’s Strictest and Most Lenient States on DUI....

Some play video games in homes littered with pizza crusts and empty Mountain Dew cans. Others watch daytime soap operas....

"...only if the student’s parent or legal guardian provides prior consent.…"

WalletHub compared each of the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 30 key metrics. Our data set ranges from crime rates to school system rankings to housing costs....

• Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Authorization -- Cloture
• House: CFTC Operations – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Transportation-HUD Appropriations
• House: Police Body Cameras – Passage
• House: Meat Labeling – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Defense Appropriations – Passage

Laurie Temple Field, a former associate of the ACLU and now a representative for Hawaii Planned Parenthood, lost no time....

The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake....

...many common vegetables contain nicotine....

“TMT and our partners support the Governor’s vision. In the past two weeks, Caltech and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have pledged their support...."

...retirement in Hawaii would require $65,822 annually in disposable income, and (given Hawaii’s relatively high income taxes) pre-tax income of $91,451....

...it does not specify any penalties. It also outlines broad reasons the requirements may be waived....

Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S....

This aquifer is also the same one that BWS uses to provide water to residents from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai....

...federal subsidies to wind power do not create investment out of nowhere; they simply distort the relative cost of producing wind energy, shifting investments from other sectors of the economy to wind projects....

Hawaii collects $2,088 per person....

The applicant is requesting an ITP to authorize take of one threatened and six endangered species....

...analysis reveals those who love their job enough to tweet about it in the United States live in the Western half of the country....

...Newsflash: The Land is Moving too....

...highlights of the media coverage of the decision....

These claims are separate and apart from matters being addressed in Arnold’s pending grievance....

Many fossil fuel producers will benefit, while the poor—and the economy—will suffer....

The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act now goes to the Senate....

...Secretly Scheming For Three Years To Turn Hawaiians Into A US Tribe....

...driving conditions for teens in the 50 U.S. states based on 16 key metrics....

"It must always be remembered how cost-effectiveness works in the public sector: the cost is the benefit."

...one more organ of old-boy power is dissolved into corporate America....

"...Calvin K.Y. Say is the uncle of one of my current law clerk’s spouse, and that another law clerk, prior to joining my staff, worked on a campaign involving Respondent Calvin K.Y. Say...." -- Rectenwald

In a June 1, 2015 letter, WASC Vice President Barbara Gross Davis wrote that panel members were “extremely impressed” by Mānoa’s Interim Report and its progress....

...and this time the outgoing leadership admits it....

...directing the state’s utilities to generate 100 percent of their electricity sales from renewable energy resources by 2045....

Organization presents comprehensive policy platform to lower aviation taxes, promote airline competition and fix air travel infrastructure in coming FAA reauthorization....

...the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship to unincorporated territories....

Na'i Aupuni's five directors have close ties to Kana'iolowalu including Pauline Namuo, wife of Roll Commission Executive Director Clyde Namuo....

Tourism will see additional healthy gains on the Neighbor Islands for the next two years, before rising occupancy and costs begin to bring down growth rates, something that has already occurred on Oahu....

...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....

...praise from the American School Counselor Association for their efforts to raise student achievement through comprehensive counseling services....

By adding a resort fee of $25 to a room rate of $125, the hotel brings in $150 per night but it can advertise a $125 room rate....

Now, appeals from both the TMT and ATST CDUPs are under review by the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court....

The federal government has been withholding about $70 million in grant money, but that will likely be released thanks to the board's vote, which will enable the exchange to continue doing outreach....

In order to further explore the possibility of Maui County running its own power utility....