The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider in blue states than in red states....

...several members of the State of Hawaii Land Use Commission were sued by the property owner in their individual as well as official capacities....

...between 1995 and 2000 roughly 12,000 people moved from Hawaii to Nevada, and about 1,850 moved from Nevada to Hawaii....

"...our elected leaders continually disrespect the voters by passing laws that the people have clearly said they do not want,” Bateman said....

...even a failed grab for federal money has apparently been enough for CNHA to turn DHHL and OHA inside out....

2012: Commission staff received a complaint that Employee was using city work time to stand in line to process residential building permit applications....

...4,342 registered voters in the County of Maui have signed the petition, while 5,284 signatures have been deemed invalid....

"I see that several of the points that we made in our January 31st McDermott Report are being addressed," said McDermott....

Grassroot President Keli’i Akina interviews a young man and young woman who share what it means to them to be both Native Hawaiian and a proud American....

Video from FreeHawaiiTV.com ....

The question of Hawaiian nationhood ... seems to be approaching the fish or cut bait stage....

The governor has gotten in some hot water for remarks seen as insensitive....

Mac Nut Farms of Hawaii LLC will pay the most, $1.6 million; Kauai Coffee Co. Inc. will pay $425,000; Kelena Farms Inc. will pay $275,000; and Captain Cook Coffee Co. Ltd. will pay $100,000....

Ohana Military Communities and Forrest City Residential Management are named as defendants in a lawsuit filed April 3....

The removal of and protection against “bad” and "ugly" natural capital such as invasive plants and feral animals....

...the share of income going to the “Dominant Class” increases while the share going to the “Lower Class” decreases steadily from the mid 1950s up to the present....

Nearly one in five of Hawaii’s waitlisted patients — that is, those remaining in a hospital after the need for acute care ceases — have an infectious disease....

...and the allowance was used to buy a sledgehammer for Rep Tom Brower to attack the homeless....

...Rough Seas for Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie's Obamacare Exchange....

More than 100 Soldiers from the 130th Engineer Brigade's headquarters reunited with their families here yesterday....

Since Abercrombie’s tenure as governor, hundreds of millions of dollars that should have been used to repair deteriorating highways and bridges have set untapped....

Here’s a copy of the questionnaire that they have been sending candidates....

...NFIB helped defeat three bills negatively affecting small business before the Legislature adjourned May 2....

...Hawaii ranks 49th among all states in accessing SNAP benefits with one out of every three eligible individuals not enrolled....

The public and the employees were told that county offices needed to be shut down because the county was in financial difficulty. This was not true....

Civil Beat tried to throttle and censor the work of Pritchett who has penned many stinging independent political pieces....

California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....

it would “...lead directly to government censorship of political speech...."

Azerbaijan has launched an unusual campaign to win influence among U.S. lawmakers, teaming up with a Turkish guru in exile and the sister of Texas Gov. Rick Perry....

...when the Bracy family investigated their options they couldn’t find any plan that didn’t both cover elective abortions and require a surcharge solely for that purpose....

Over 11% of Hawaii households are multigenerational, the largest percentage in the United States....

...even as the ailing, 13-term delegate was having his statement inserted into the Congressional Record, freshman U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) was upstaging him....

Reid has purposely tried to damage the names of Charles and David Koch, prominent conservative donors....

In Hawaii, despite almost 60 years of one-party rule, we see our quality of life declining....

The report found that the 2013 graduates who borrowed to attend Richardson carry an average debt load of $70,263....

...twelve candidates have no challenger....

...the Hawaii Supreme Court announced it would consider the four-year legal challenge waged by a hui of environmental groups against the City and County of Honolulu....

"...it’s all the more important the people of Hawai‘i have an electoral field that offers balance and choice...."

Only 31% favored federal recognition, while 6% chose "independence."....

Other states are being ordered to follow Hawaii's example and give lots of money to green energy scammers who in turn give campaign contributions to the politicians who made their scams possible...

"...immediately allow our veterans to use their VA identification card to obtain medical care through the private health care system, with the VA paying the bill...."

Some school principals are asking the State Board of Education to remove Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi and her deputy, Ronn Nozoe....

...what matters most is whether we end up with enough lawmakers in Congress willing to reign in the increasingly imperial Obama presidency in his final two years....

...The Act also increases the cap on the amount of the credit per production from $8 million to $15 million and moves the expiration date for the credit from January 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019....

“By the end of the first quarter, we had worked through the high-cost crude inventory...."

...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....