...Representative Bob McDermott, he has determined that the holdup of VA loans for homes with catchment systems is the direct result of arbitrary actions by the State Department of Health...

Your final charges probably will be higher than shown here because the most highly variable costs are not included: title insurance, title search, taxes, other government fees and escrow fees....

Congress will be in recess until September 9, 2013....

Hawai‘i Health Connector today announced that it is partnering with 34 community organizations throughout the state....

...this IOM report has been pretty thoroughly debunked....

Just as the GOP activists in Idaho want bad-intentioned Democrats and free-thinking independents out of “their” nominating process, so do Democratic Party leaders in Hawaii....

Detroit’s demise was the result of big-government, liberal policies promoted by self-interested politicians and coercive public employee unions....

A number of questions about Hawaii’s general excise tax seem to resurface....

The ethical response is to try again, not to proceed in violation of Hawaii law and court rules....

High anxiety is gripping Capitol Hill. The reason: On January 1, 2014, Members of Congress and their staff will lose their current employment-based health insurance and will instead be offered coverage in the health insurance exchanges established under the new health care law....

The Grants in Aid Advisory Commission has released its recommendations for grant proposals to the Honolulu City Council....

President Obama assured lawmakers that they and their staffs wouldn't be foisted onto the same health exchange as millions of Americans....

...a couple would be eligible for subsidies worth $3,452 to purchase a so-called silver insurance plan if they made up to $62,040 per year. But if they made just $1 more than that, they would lose the subsidy....

Hawaii is full-fledged Democrat and leftist, Democrat and worse.  And they're tired of 'em....

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an expedited hearing for the federal rail lawsuit on August 15th....

The study, done by the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh, marked the first time that a drilling company let government scientists inject special tracers into the fracking fluid and then continue regular monitoring....

Members of Congress head home tomorrow for a month-long recess....

It’s not even August, and Members of Congress are starting to buzz about the upcoming budget and debt ceiling fight....

The Examiner used the Census Bureau's 2011 Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll to rank every U.S. city with a population of 200,000 or more....

Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) this morning received notification from the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) that its Race to the Top (RTTT) grant is no longer considered “high-risk”....

• Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates – Passage
• House: Defense Appropriations – NSA Phone Record Collection Amendment
• House: Defense Appropriations—Final Passage
• House: Coal Ash Regulations – Passage

The movement to defund Obamacare is gaining traction in Washington....

As much as an additional 12 cents/kilowatt hour could be added to each HECO bill on O`ahu, just for the undersea cable, according to an Integrated Resource Planning Final Report filed recently with the PUC....

...community forum on Monday, July 29, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. in the Queen’s Conference Center Auditorium....

it may in fact require everyone who wears or eats or sells a GMO food or other product to register with the county and pay a fee....

In addition to the fees and charges levied for these required permits and licenses, there is the time that it takes to secure many of these permits and licenses....

Correcting the misinformation being spread by special interest groups about how we farm....

The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there....

Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries....

Visitors who came to Hawai‘i in June 2013 spent a total of $1.3 billion, an increase of 7 percent from June 2012....

Sue and Settle process has left Hawaii burdened with an EPA mandated ‘Regional Haze’ plan which forces human emitters to make up for emissions from Kilauea Volcano....

The same author in 2011 made the same type of claims in the run-up to Civil Unions....

...a delayed and untested verification process is an open-invitation to cheat....

Tracking the success of the plan will be coordinated with the state Office of Information Management and Technology....

Caldwell announced today the selection of veteran transportation planner Harrison Rue as the Administrator of the City’s Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Program....

...create a limited exemption from the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act allowing foreign-built ships to transport bulk cargoes the domestic Puerto Rico trade...