... conference committee will reconvene tomorrow, April 23, at 10:30 am in Conference Room 312 ....

... BRT was not considered even a reasonable alternative to be studied ....

...the $25 million taxpayer gift was specifically allocated for a biofuels demonstration plant to be built on Oahu....

• Senate: Firearms Legislation – Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Amendment
• Senate: Firearms Legislation – Background Checks Amendment
• Senate: Firearms Legislation – Republican Substitute Amendment
• Senate: Firearms Legislation – Straw Purchases Amendment
• House: Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing

Why are states so eager to collect taxes on Internet sales?  In short, because they could grab money from other states....

Due to maneuvers by various legislative committees resulting in major changes in bills without public notice, we are petitioning the legislative bodies to defeat the following bills....

...take a moment to look back on the last 50 or so working days to see how they handled taxpayer funds....

Why would one of the state’s largest developers fund so-called anti-development groups?

... civil litigation involving Enron’s collapse, the Catholic Church’s priest abuse scandals, Bridgestone/Firestone’s allegedly defective tires, tobacco company liability and almost any product liability lawsuit ....

THAAD remains the most successfully tested Missile Defense system since 2003, with a 10 for 10 intercept flight record....

The 32 non-profit groups were selected from 146 applications for OHA grant money....

...Young is currently serving as the director of communications and acting deputy director....

"There are many changes coming to medicine that some physicians might not like."

House Bill 634, which would require the purchase of a company to hire 100 percent of the seller’s employees, is now in a conference committee....

SB535SD1HD2 would make it illegal for any Hawaii family to fire or otherwise change the employment status of nannies, babysitters, caretakers, and other domestic workers....

Both the House and Senate will present a CD1 draft of SB 642 and HB 668 that would amend the bills....

...seeking proposals from (ahem) 'qualified non-profit organizations' for $1.6 million in Grants-in-Aid funds....

Subsidies for renewable energy and energy efficiency total $23 billion over ten years....

SB1084 proposes a constitutional amendment to allow the appropriation of public funds for private early childhood education programs ....

Watson will be the only Native Hawaiian serving as an Article III judge ....

Retailers would be forced to act as tax collectors for states in which they have no voice....

... 999-year homestead leases to be assigned to trustees of land trusts that are created for managing and holding the homestead ....

...anticipating a time when the forces of Islam, led by the Mahdi, the Guided One, will conquer the world prior to the Day of Judgment....

Department employees were initially told to expect to be furloughed for up to 22 days, but that was reduced to 14 days....

On April 8, 2013, EarthJustice secured a court order to resume aerial eradication on Mauna Kea....

Each enforcement action costs the city about 15 thousand dollars.  Bill 7 will cut that expense in half ....

The Democratic Party of Hawaii will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to seek an injunction against the state of Hawaii over its primary election laws....

...an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers....

...They are now trying to convince governors and state legislators that a series of state-level “grand bargains” could produce “savings“ in exchange for expanding Medicaid....

A comprehensive amnesty bill was tried before and it failed....

...the case seemed like a good vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit the pretext-in-eminent-domain issue it teased us with in Kelo....

Meanwhile ... Hawaii Health Insurance Rates to Rise 12% to 21% Next Year....

As of June 30, 2011, there were 9,922 homestead leases statewide and 26,170 applicants waiting for homestead leases. In FY2011, the department issued 177 new homestead leases....