... No Lahaina burn zone property owners have been given building permits ....

... The developer requested a waiver for the project, but a year later, the permit is still pending ....

... for the past 153 days HONU connected 119 clients with shelter or supportive housing ....

... more than 500 companies with commercial use permits from the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR), began collecting one dollar from each passenger or customer ....

... Mercado Kim's uncle, John Sayin Kim, became Godfather of Hawaii organized crime after the explosion of his Cadillac Eldorado in Chinatown ....

... the dispensaries don't want the competition ....

... The Judicial Council is seeking applicants to fill a vacancy on the Hawaiʻi State Ethics Commission. The term will be for four years ....

... Chris Butler told me go big or go home ....

... Overall Tax Burden 11.80% ....

... Biden recently signed the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2024, which extended federal benefits to COFA citizens who legally reside in the United States ....

"Major decisions about our national energy policy must be made at the federal level, not dictated by one lawsuit brought by one city in its own courts.”

"Our decisions impact virtually every area of life on the islands."

... The legal ownership of a firearm inherently includes the right to carry it ....

... Total salary needed for two working adults with two children $299,520 ....

... The bills would enable starter homes, widen mixed-use housing, attract nurses to Hawaii and exempt doctors from the state GET ....

... How Much Pot Does One Person Need? ....

... HB 1675: GET exemption for medical services paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE ....

“The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey”

... National-level polling shows Kennedy pulling more votes from Biden than Trump ....

"As we approach March 31, International Transgender Day of Visibility, I stand with pride alongside fellow members of the House who consistently affirm, embrace, and support transgender folks in our communities."

... there's a price to be paid for preening and posturing .... 

... Joint Task Force – Red Hill transferred authority of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage to the Navy Closure Task Force – Red Hill ....

... Park will be retiring from OIP at the end of March 2024.  Supervising Staff Attorney Carlotta Amerino will become OIP’s Acting Director in April. ....

... only these insiders are qualified to bid ....

... Applicants Also Sought for Attorneys and Judges Assistance Program Board ....

... The appointment is subject to Senate confirmation ....

... Additionally, due to the August 2023 Maui Wildfires, Ways and Means unanimously approved other emergency appropriation bills, House Bill 679 Senate Draft 2 and House Bill 2610 Senate Draft 2 ....

... The driver of the vehicle failed to stop to render aid and was last seen making a U-turn toward Kapa‘a ....

... February 2024 average daily census of 236,008 is a decline from 2023 ....

... Twenty years later, we are still having the same conversations ....

...When government is finally saying it is the problem, it’s on the right track to finding a solution....

... Hawaii hands out an average of 5,000 jaywalking tickets per year, the highest per capita in the nation, but that has done virtually nothing to promote pedestrian safety ....

... Green: No Permits to rebuild Until End of 2024 ....

"... Pro-Israel supporters at UHM planted Israeli flags in a common space to express their support for Israeli Jews following the Oct. 7 massacre ...."

... BLNR, BoE, UH Regents and more ...

... Many political disagreements divide neatly along party lines, but the protectionist Jones Act isn’t one of them ....

... outmigration since 2020 has resulted in the loss of $185 million in general excise taxes and state income taxes, or approximately $61.8 million per year ....

... prohibiting persons under the age of 21 from purchasing or possessing ammunition ....

... The Hawaii Senate committee’s approval of S.R. 168 and S.C.R. 196 is another example of how the Left supports an Article V convention and would use one to push radical, anti-American revisions to the U.S. Constitution ....

... Once Hawaii County forces families to apply for permits, the next step will be an effort to ban our industry entirely ....

... admitted to the emergency room with various burn marks, physical signs of dehydration and malnutrition, bruising at various stages of healing, and a fractured rib and femur bone ....

... it "harms the legal system, the profession, and the public" while fostering "a perception of privilege and arrogance" ....

... especially when wind, solar and hydroelectric output is lower than forecast ....

... The files, which were leaked from within the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), were published by the US-based think tank Environmental Progress ....

... bills that could significantly ease Hawaii's emergency-status housing crisis ....

... Resolution 24-65 contains most of the usual anti-housing rhetoric, and even claims that making it easier to create smaller, more affordable homes would somehow result in more so-called monster homes ....

... votes cast and bills introduced ....

... marijuana, abortion, parental rights ....

... 100 years later, only 9,800 homesteads have been opened and 28,000 Native Hawaiians remain on a waitlist ....

... some bills replace a current tax rate with a blank.  Or several blanks.  Those are scary because you don’t know what our lawmakers are thinking of putting in there ....