The House is in Recess until January....

Two of the problems Obamacare promised to solve were getting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and helping the uninsured get coverage....

We need to determine what is in the best interests of the state as a whole before this new and promising industry is literally pecked apart by local jurisdictions and activist mobs....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has issued its latest opinion in the apparently eternal metaphysical question of the circuit courts' appellate jurisdiction to review decisions under the Hawaii Administrative Procedures Act....

...the elected State Legislature has twice appropriated $618,000 of State construction and improvement funds specifically directed to the VSAS. The Governor of the State Hawaii, exercising what amounts to line item veto, has arbitrarily, for two years, withheld these funds....

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Our state’s lower-income families are faced with almost insurmountable structural challenges to escaping poverty....

... Hawaii Appleseed released a report entitled Reimagining Housing in Hawaii, detailing successful affordable housing models like microunits, ohana housing, modular housing, among others....

Now that everyone is aware that the tax increases of the last few years have allowed state government to accumulate nearly a billion dollars in surplus funds, it is time for policymakers to think about insuring that Hawaii is ready for the next downturn....

A key deadline on the election calendar passed with little notice December 3....

...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....

...the “Number of Individuals Who Have Selected a Marketplace Plan” is “pre-effectuated” -- including individuals who have not made any premium payments....

A review of Pono Choices confirmed the curriculum is ... aligned with ... state law ....

Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....

The State has hired some very big gun Supreme Court litigators at who knows what cost....

...FERC oversees all permits for hydropower plans. The process is so onerous that license-seekers sometimes have to obtain permits from up to 25 different agencies. It can take years....

...dedicated hospital observation units could lead to $950 million in national cost savings, according to a new study in Health Affairs....

...Abercrombie today announced the release of more than $3.03 million for various capital improvement grants to Hawaii-based nonprofit organizations whose missions benefit ....

...the policy recommendations are projected to accelerate current trends, reducing the HYCF average daily population by 60 percent by 2019....

Travelers are currently charged $2.50 per flight under the Transportation Security Administration’s airline security “fee.” Under the budget deal, that would increase to $5.60 per flight or $11.20 for a round-trip ticket....

“Maybe Hawaiians don’t want to be Native American Indians."

The interactive website allows users to click among multiple data streams comparing the state's Complex Areas, schools and student groups....

18th annual “Small Business Policy Index 2013: Ranking the States on Policy Measures and Costs Impacting Small Business and Entrepreneurship.”....

No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....

...nonessential management employees are being furloughed three days per month for the next six months as part of a cost-cutting drive....

Some Members of Congress are using this logic in their latest budget proposal.... 

Video of the State of OHA speech delivered at Central Union Church December 10, 2013....

• DATE: Wednesday, December 18, 2013
• TIME: 1:30 p.m.
• PLACE: Auditorium, State Capitol

• DATE: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...amid the rush to enroll as many people as possible by the Dec. 23 deadline, there's a huge caveat that isn't getting much public attention: For coverage to take effect on Jan. 1, enrollees must pay their first month's premium....

...a web-based application that allows citizens to access a wide range of campaign financial data on any elected official....

The authority’s incohesive, self-described “marketing plan” and poor reporting on measures of effectiveness impede transparency....

To meet the promise of free preventive care nationwide, every family doctor in America would have to work full-time delivering it, leaving no time for all the other things they need to do....

Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM....

Hawaii's four members of Congress are pretty terrible by ACU standards....

Consumers choose plastic bags far more often than paper or reusable bags to carry their purchases.... 

Many had high hopes that the first budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment toward fixing the U.S. spending and debt crisis.....

In Hawaii, 48.2 percent of adults aged 25 years and older with at least a high school education report their health is very good or excellent compared to only 28.0 percent with less than a high school education....

...as a seven‐year‐old student at St. Anthony's grade school in 1975 when homosexual then‐Father Joseph Ferrario began to groom and sexually molest him....

We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....

...a health insurance premium sheet that will give consumers a better idea of what a new 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) plan will cost compared to their existing 2013 health plan....

On November 14, 2013, President Obama announced that States could decide whether to allow small group and individual health insurance policies existing on Oct. 1, 2013 to be renewed for a policy year starting between January 1, 2014 and October 1, 2014....

Recent confidential negotiations between Molokai Ranch, California wind developer Princeton Energy, Maui County and Maui Electric Company, however, have cast doubt....

Topics include the special session, the law, Australia, initiative, referendum, recall, term limits and the upcoming 2014 Legislature....

On January 8 and 9, 2014, the Seminar Group is putting on what we hope will become a regular event - the Hawaii Agriculture Conference....

...sentenced to federal prison for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by colluding on ocean freight rates and in cargo allocation schemes....

Matsuda resigned his post as Affordable Care Act (ACA) implementation manager in the Governor’s office on Friday, Dec. 6....