DCCA issued a Preliminary Order to Cease and Desist and Notice of Right to Hearing against a Hawaii businessman, David T. Low, and his company, Hawaii Capital Management, LLC...

The FDA estimates that first-year compliance costs could be as high as $537 million for all regulated businesses covered under the rule....

Artates is also executive director of the Hawaii Operating Engineers Stabilization Fund...Sentencing hearings are scheduled Sept. 23....

the day rail is operative your sewers, water, bus, roads, and parks get bled dry ....

U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity....

During the August congressional recess, a pro-amnesty coalition of business and union interests is putting the squeeze on members of the House....

Hawaii's bid for it got a $5,000 donation from the global law and lobbying firm Skadden Arps....

...Hawaii is at the forefront of modern, high-output agriculture: biotech farming....

Friday, August 16, 2013 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. HST...

OPEB-related corruption has been in the news for years.  For instance....

...spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa stood by his comment....

The State Department closed 21 U.S. embassies over the weekend....

Over the next few months state agencies will be transitioning from the current eProcurement system, HePS, to the new Hawaii State eProcurement application, HIePRO....

$12.9 million for capital improvement projects....

...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”....

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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....