The quotes below are a sample of the responses I received to part 1 ....

...ten species that – thanks to the Endangered Species Act’s protections – are either steadily improving or have been recovered and removed from the list of imperiled species....

Please mark your calendars and join your fellow patriots and conservatives for our next two "2nd Cup of Coffee" discussions....

...the episode focuses on the attempted murder of a Pearl Harbor veteran that lead Five-0 to use decades old evidence to investigate....

The developed world has continued to perform below potential this year .... 

Christmas trees are pretty unpopular, right?  The House must think so, since its farm bill would pave the way to set up a Christmas Tree Promotion Board....

• DATE: Monday, December 9, 2013
• TIME: 2:00 pm
• PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol 

Because the new predictions are less dire than in the past, the IPCC’s old fans have suddenly become the new climate deniers, calling the IPCC’s latest report “political” and ignoring its key findings....

On the morning of 7 December 1941, twelve Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses were approaching Hawaii after a 14-hour flight from California....

Opening night shimmers with “Santa’s Underwater Adventure” for the 29th annual event....

Just wait til the police start using this law to seize GMO marijuana plants and imposing $$$ fines on growers....

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating  the Hawaii State Hospital, hospital administrators have confirmed....

...recommended legislation related to Hawai`i’s insurance exchange for the 2014 legislative session....

The plan on the table in Congress would raise the federal minimum wage above $10 an hour (which is higher than all existing state rates)....

These meetings are designed to demystify the State lawmaking process, and will demonstrate ways that you can speak out at the legislature....

...informational briefing is to provide the legislature with an update on the ERS’ financial status and actuarial valuation report prepared by Gabriel Roeder Smith and Company....

• DATE: Monday, December 09, 2013
• TIME: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...the way it was conducted and its honest conclusion gives me more hope than I’ve had in a long time concerning the integrity of climate research....

This is a huge victory for Native Hawaiians.  Hawaiian affairs are returning to the channel created in the Hawaii Admission Act....

In a State Public Utility Commission (PUC) hearing this morning, Commissioners issued an order confirming a motor carrier violation for SER Trucking connected with the August 31st sludge spill on the H-1....

Despite receiving a “D”, Hawaii’s financial disclosure law ranks as sixth best out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.... 

...supporters of Preschool for All, including some academics who are way out in front of what the evidence says and know it, have turned a blind eye to the mixed and conflicting nature of research findings....

It is easy to manipulate the numbers when it comes to talking about subsidies....

The President said yesterday that he’s “learned not to make wild promises” anymore....

...violating federal law by failing to pay foster parents enough to adequately care for the foster children in their homes....

...the Black Knights from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point played the University of Hawaii Warriors, Saturday, Nov. 30....

...the AG told the league the health connector is not required to provide voter information on its website because it is an independent, nonprofit agency....

Ruth has been with the Department of Public Safety since June 1995....

The contracts are among major reform efforts underway since December 2012 to meet recommendations by the State Office of the Auditor....

Grant Y.M. Chun to the Board of Education (BOE); Doreen Napua Gomes to the Hawaiian Homes Commission; Aaron D. Mahi to the Land Use Commission (LUC); and Brian T. Tamamoto to the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA), Kakaako District....

...to be placed on the December 6, 2013, Council agenda....

What happens if one picks the wrong authority and psychologically ties oneself to a person expressing an argument, rather than to the evidence....

Law imposing a one-year moratorium on HCDA approval of new projects that renews automatically....

High HIV prevalence, lack of awareness of HIV-positive status, unprotected anal sex, and increased viral load among HIV-positive MSM not on antiretroviral treatment contribute substantially to new infections among this population....

HealthCare.gov can’t fix anything that’s wrong with Obamacare....

The DOT vendors that appear to have paid for John Doe’s golf are Mitsunaga & Associates, Inc., TM Designers, Inc., Bowers + Kubota Consulting, Inc., and R. M. Towill Corporation....

An administrative fine of ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED FORTY DOLLARS ($1,940.00) for the violations ....

A bipartisan group of state and county leaders age 40 and under ....

Because Hawaii legislators exempted the health law from many of the rules that hold other government ventures accountable, there remain more questions than answers about the debacle....

...the liberals I encounter are all in the academic and public policy world ― far away from the poverty population they so often talk about....

The law is a complicated one, made so in an effort to get around the Supreme Court’s past rulings that states could not require sales tax collection by a company if that company is not physically present in the state....

This effect may be span any number of areas ranging from fear of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), fear of nuclear power, fear of vaccinations or even fear of child abduction by strangers....

...in January she was listed as one of Hawaii Island's most wanted....

The Department is conducting this study under contract with The Urban Institute and its subcontractors, NORC, Econometrica and SSI....

The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) will be placing Pono Choices implementation on hold as it conducts another review of the pilot curriculum....

This UHERO 101 intends to clarify some of the rate and policy aspects of PV in Hawai‘i, and explores the two opposite driving forces of PV adoption....