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...

1. Obamacare is going great.
2. I cut the deficit in half.
3. Middle-class income is stuck in the ’70s.

The feedstock for the biofuel is anticipated to be woody biomass-based....

Renewable fuel credit prices rose to record highs recently, reigniting the debate over repealing the federal government's ethanol mandate....

Jacksonville, Florida, brings in coal from Colombia rather than West Virginia.....

The airline industry, whose largest expense is fuel, is also behind the structural change in the legislation that would allow foreign-made vessels to transport on U.S. waters....

As Native Hawaiians and residents of Hawai‘i, we take serious offense at your public attack upon a local fisherman for catching ahi....

"...make the investment ... now...."

States with more homeowners and businesses “going solar” share these policies....

On our international routes we are seeing the strengthening of the dollar undermine some of the excellent results we have had in the last couple of years but this portion of our business remains the core focus of our expansion plans....

There are plenty of people out there telling us what we should eat—and worse, trying to use public policy to make us live by their opinions....

fraud has flown under the radar. And as sales have boomed and the stakes have risen, the scale of deception has broadened....

Obama says he’s ready to get back to the “kitchen table” issues after months of focusing on gun control, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and other tangents....

As billionaire Larry Ellison makes gestures....

Board of Regents has identified Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer David Lassner as Interim President of the university and will vote on the appointment at a special board meeting July 30....

With a vote of 7-0, the Hawaiian Homes Commission voted to amend its long-standing revocable permit (RP) program....

“Botched Abortion” project designed to hold abortionists accountable for medical malpractice....

Here are some short key points regarding the impact of the decisions....

...the institution of marriage is morphing into a whole new thing....

"...the budget includes new spending on program enhancements that could eventually result in fiscal pressure...."

July 8-18, 61 total locations throughout the country were tested, with data collected on how many people paid for the beverages....

Members of Congress have debated various versions of the DREAM Act more than 30 times over the past dozen years. They’ll do so again today....

The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall....

the proposal would eliminate Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)....

More than 100 island conservatives from across Oahu came together to hear Humphries....

• House: Employer Health Insurance Mandate Delay – Passage
• House: Individual Health Insurance Mandate Delay – Passage
• House: Education Law Overhaul – Passage

More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union bosses have left a once-great American city crippled and deteriorating....

Hawaii, which had been among the top ten states in previous studies, fell from 8th in 2008, to 11th in 2009, and now to 13th in 2012....

M.R.C. Greenwood will earn a little less than $25,000 a month after she resigns as University of Hawaii president...

A local reporter attempted to pin the Foundation down on whether or not it supported the handful of measures that had been thrown into the Honolulu City Council hopper ....