FLASHBACK Oct 18, 2013: “We urge you to allow Bill 2491 to become law.  We will be there to defend it.”....

After the first year of implementation, the state reduced its corrections population 4 percent, averted $2.5 million in costs, and allocated $3.4 million into its reinvestment strategies....

President Obama tells us that "health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years."....

These bills offer 50 million dollars in bonds for the Ikehu Molokai project proposed by Molokai Ranch and Princeton Energy....

Policymakers should adopt privacy measures to protect patients from potential problems with electronic health records....

Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....

February 12, the House Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts is scheduled to hear House Bill 2148 at 8:30 a.m., in House conference room 312....

If he loses their August showdown, Schatz will be the first appointee spurned in a primary since 1996....

How vibrant Hawaii’s fiscal health is depends on who you ask....

Hurting workers doesn’t play well in an election year.....

...examining allegations of administrative abuses and an ongoing failure to provide a safe work environment at the Hawaii State Hospital....

...Abercrombie today announced the appointment and promotion (resignation) of Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia as Chief Advisor for Technology and Cyber-Security (CIO), effective Feb. 18, 2014....

It doesn’t take long to figure out that people haven’t learned a blessed thing from flushing $20 billion down the toilet....

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Military Retirement Pay
• House: Consumer Financial Protection and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013

This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....

"I will be out of the office starting 02/07/2014 and will not return until 04/30/2014....."

On the 50th anniversary of the ‘War on Poverty’, poverty and income inequality are major policy issues ....

The Lincoln Day Dinner registration deadline is February 13th....

Shapiro has closely examined the relationship between law and freedom....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 7, 2014....

"He specifically targeted troubled and special-needs children...."

Iwasa said her top priorities for both her district and Honolulu County as a whole are budget, transparency and accountability, and land use and infrastructure....

Hawaii legislators set to hear a bill to combat fraudulent lien filings on February 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in room 229 at the Hawaii Capitol....

The Hawaii Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("Little RFRA") of 2014 would restrict government actions against people of faith by applying the "compelling interest" test....

...Hawaii has some of the most generous welfare benefits in the country, and one man took full advantage of them....

93 percent more liberal than the rest of the Senate on economic issues, 73 percent more liberal on social issues, and 71 percent more liberal on foreign policy issues....

Balli, 42, of Kapolei, was killed in an insurgent attack in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 20....

...replacements, renovations and upgrades to our aging infrastructure at several state hospital facilities....

Watch the Senate committee system falling apart....

The fundraising event was organized for the benefit of the Hawaii Republican Assembly's political superpac HIRA Action....

President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....

Initiatives include studies for a space exploration R&D park, international flight training center and a laser optical communications ground station in Hawaii....

These bills have been set up on the front burner of this year’s legislative agenda after the pre-empted initiative to “Let the People Vote” during last year’s “not -so-special-session” on same-sex marriage....

...“tax exclusions,” “tax exemptions,” “tax deferrals,” “preferential tax rates,” and “tax credits”....

32 states have similar exemptions, and research has demonstrated that low and middle-income families spend a larger proportion of their income on food costs....

"Last month, the Republican National Committee filed public-records requests in Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Oregon seeking information about compensation and vacation time for the exchange directors, four of whom have resigned."

The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Jin-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine is set to begin patrols in 2014 — armed with the PLAN’s new Ju Lang 2 (JL2)....

Several House Democrats want the state to take over the Hawaii Health Connector, set up last year as a private, nonprofit....

With retread opposition and the wind at his back, don't be surprised at yet another landslide win for Abercrombie....

By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....

We found no small irony in Gabbard quickly taking the seat Faleomavaega waited years to earn....

Two important bills (SB2153 and SB2519) that promote greater fiscal transparency and protections for Hawaii's taxpayers passed the Ways And Means Committee today....

...the creator of the "Lifetime Stand," a prison rehabilitation program that stresses work ethic, perseverance, discipline and personal responsibility....

...nine months in Afghanistan supporting Operation Enduring Freedom....