This hearing is a brushback to Sen Schatz' pipe dream of creating the Akaka Tribe via the US Department of the Interior without a vote of Congress....

In Hawaii, the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,671.... 

 ...The USW expects a response from the governor....

Rep. Gene Ward introduced a resolution calling on Congress to enact Jones Act reform legislation....

"Resident Commissioner intends to introduce legislation in light of report’s findings"

The Pro Bowl is back for 2014, and it's back in Hawaii. After that, we'll just have to see....

Characteristics receiving the lowest excellent or good ratings were the availability of affordable quality housing (9%) .... 

All we have to do is pass the bill unamended, and we can move the PLDC repeal along to the final step. And then Senator Solomon announces she want to amend the bill....

If Congress alters the health care law's payment cuts to doctors and hospitals, costs could skyrocket....

The internet sales tax mandate would force businesses to become sales tax collectors for all states....

For the first time in four years, the U.S. Congress is engaged in a full-throated budget debate....

“Pa`ina in the Country” celebration of Dr. Akina’s appointment as Grassroot Institute’s new president on April 6, 2013 from 12 PM to 2 PM at 45-114 Waikapoki Rd -- Kane`ohe Congregational Church

"...we face the potential retirement of a number of veteran principals,” stated Superintendent Kathryn Matayoshi....

...huge wide roads were bulldozed through these Hawaiian sites causing massive, irreparable damage to the ancient Kualaka'i trail that is many hundreds if not one thousand years old....

Even though total wind power capacity grew by 30 percent last year, with 13,000 megawatts in new wind turbines, the actual portion of our electricity coming from wind energy did not increase proportionally....

Gov. Neil Abercrombie today announced the nominations of Eugene Bal III, Barry T. Mizuno, and Randolph A. Moore to the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. The nominations are subject to state Senate confirmation....

“The meeting is an opportunity to work with international leaders to open doors of trade and commerce while working with federal leaders on issues that may impact the way Hawaii serves its people and families,” said Lt. Governor Tsutsui....

... they did ask to become a part of the country ....

Hawaii Does Not Have A Single Health Care Price Transparency Law....

...a former U.S. Army officer who works as a civilian employee of a defense contractor at U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) in Hawaii, has been arrested....

It would take only 33 minutes for a missile to reach the U.S. from anywhere in the world....

“Hawaii’s rates of marijuana use are significantly higher than in the rest of the country.”

David Chang, 33, state chairman of the Hawaiian Republican Party, is a second-generation Korean-American....

...15 initiatives, many of which depend upon more efficient seaborne transportation....

From Hawaii House Republican Legislative Update ....

The phrase “corporate welfare” usually leads people to clench their pocketbooks a little bit tighter....

...the governor interrupted by saying he has been hearing “the same propaganda.”

House Judiciary Committee TOMORROW, March 19 at 2:00 p.m. in House Conference Room 325 at the state Capitol....

...a new path and new solutions for a Republican Party that’s more inclusive and successful....

Emerging new details about the application process for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) suggest that applying for benefits will be an onerous and grueling process....

On this date in 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Statehood Bill ....

Marriage is the fundamental building block of all human civilization....

Undercutting the trope that the lawsuit by a Marin County, California oyster farm to keep operating is all a right-wing plot ....

... as quickly as demands for repeal of Act 55 were heard, legislators introduced a bill establishing bills to establish a Public Private Partnership Authority ....

...what is the real track record of Seattle’s “four successful homeless camps”?  Hawai’i Free Press found some answers and they aren’t pretty.... 

A bipartisan group of five Hawaii State Representatives introduced in the current session a pair of resolutions calling on the U.S. Congress to enact reform ....

we, mere mortals, cannot predict what the prize industry of the future will be....

Last year, Australian police reopened inquiries into the 1982 bombing of the Israeli consulate in Sydney and a Jewish club, after finding links to Rashed....

A feature focusing on the relationship a Hawaii Advisory Team has with the Qalat Reserve Kandak.... 

...accountability measures for financial and organizational performance for all charter schools in the state....

Some raise, some redistribute. Others give credit where credit may not be due....

10:00am this Saturday, March 16th, at Moanalua Middle School....

“The message from both Lana`i and Molokai residents is very clear – no wind turbines, no undersea cables,” Carroll said.

...no trace of the chemical was ever found in our Waimea-Kekaha water system, and there has been no detection (Countywide) since 2005....

Scott Bullock, the Institute for Justice lawyer who argued Kelo will be speaking next Monday at the University of Hawaii School of Law ....

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Heritage experts took a look at the President’s plan to see if it would actually help America’s needy children get ahead in the “race of life.”

Evidence from Oklahoma and Georgia, two states that adopted universal preschool in the 1990s, suggests that Obama's plan to expand preschool would have few meaningful effects....

When we asked Dick if we could celebrate his birthday publicly, he said only if we celebrated his most important birthday, America's Birthday: July 4th 1776....