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Monday, June 3, 2013 |
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Caldwell Encourages 'Qualified' Non-Profits to Apply for Grants
By News Release @ 7:37 PM :: 4384 Views :: Honolulu County
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“This is the transparent process initiated by the City Council and approved by voters last year."
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Monday, June 3, 2013 |
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UH Study: 92% of Global Warming Climate Models Fail
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 5744 Views :: Environment
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one model out of the 12 is consistent with the proxy-inferred patterns of the rainfall changes....
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Monday, June 3, 2013 |
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Coming Next: Medicare's $35T Bankruptcy
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:09 PM :: 3488 Views :: Health Care
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The Medicare program that provides health insurance to seniors faces a dire financial future. And Obamacare is making it worse....
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Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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Feds Bust Sandwich Isles Com: $25M/year Funneled to Hee Company
By Andrew Walden @ 9:16 PM :: 19057 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, National News, Ethics
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The FCC order exposes more information on Hee than has ever before been made public....
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Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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HIRA Candidate for GOP Chair Stars in Gay Pride Parade
By Andrew Walden @ 5:37 PM :: 7394 Views :: Family, Republican Party
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...Hayes, Miss Gay Pride 1987-88, "has been coming here to fight for a quarter century."
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Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
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No Good Intention Goes Without Consequences
By Lowell L Kalapa @ 6:01 AM :: 5197 Views :: Taxes
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One issue that has irritated lawmakers for the past few years is the ability to transfer ownership of companies or organizations that have substantial holdings of real estate without having to pay the conveyance tax....
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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.05% Solution: Abercrombie Quietly Appoints DUI Taskforce
By Andrew Walden @ 4:11 PM :: 4621 Views :: Law Enforcement
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...a mandate to cut the legal blood alcohol limit from 0.08% to 0.05%.....
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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UHPA to NEA: "Thank you for trying to destroy our union"
By News Release @ 1:39 PM :: 5826 Views :: Higher Education, Labor
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You threatened to destroy us (“decertify” is the technical term) when you visited last June if we ceased our relationship with NEA....
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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NRA Debunks Ammo Shortage Rumors
By News Release @ 12:58 AM :: 5952 Views :: Second Amendment
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...there are more than enough actual threats to the Second Amendment to keep gun owners busy....
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 |
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New AIS Testimony: Rail Route Illegally Damages Hawaiian Cultural Properties
By John Bond @ 12:35 AM :: 7653 Views :: Rail
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The fixed guideway and stations directly overlay the 1825 trails....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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More Flooding in Kakaako's Future
By John Bond @ 9:29 PM :: 9339 Views :: Environment, Development, Hawaii History
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Right now there is a race to see how fast Kakaako can be sold and developed before the mainland and foreign real estate investors find out they will be stuck with enormous future expenses....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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Gun Permitting Among Bills on Honolulu Council Agenda
By Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine @ 4:07 PM :: 6710 Views :: Honolulu County, Second Amendment
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Resolution 13-74, CD1 (2013) – Requesting the Honolulu Police Department to provide for firearm permitting and registration at the Kapolei and Kaneohe Police Stations....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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VIDEO: I Aloha Molokai ‘Bottom Up Planning’
By Video @ 2:42 PM :: 5023 Views :: Energy
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I Aloha Molokai looks at bottom up planning ....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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New Global Energy Leader: The United States
By NCPA @ 1:51 PM :: 4251 Views :: Energy
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the United States has blown past Russia to become the world's largest producer of natural gas, and America will shortly occupy the number one position in oil production as well....
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Friday, May 31, 2013 |
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Governor Releases $21.8 Million for Airports, Highways Statewide
By News Release @ 2:44 AM :: 5051 Views :: Hawaii State Government
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Allotment of funds for the following priority projects, identified by members of the state Legislature, has been approved....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Vanished Hawaii Travel Agent Ordered to Pay $4.2M
By News Release @ 9:50 PM :: 7167 Views :: Tourism
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Pulaski County Circuit Court Judge Collins Kilgore ordered Ope Saaga to pay $407,003.93 in restitution to consumers and $3.86 million in civil penalties....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Hawaii Ranks 6th for Senior Health
By News Release @ 8:13 PM :: 6187 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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The America’s Health Rankings Senior Report finds that Hawaii has its share of strengths and challenges for senior health....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Shipping Industry under “environmental siege”
By News Release @ 7:47 PM :: 7814 Views :: Energy, Environment, Jones Act
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a “huge, politically inspired environmental agenda” which would impose significant costs on the industry at a time when it could least afford them....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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NCLB Waiver: DoE's Latest Trick to Hide Failure
By Selected News Articles @ 3:18 PM :: 4801 Views :: Education K-12
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Hawaii’s move to give equal waiting to middle-class students and those lumped into its “high-needs subgroup” could obscure how poorly districts and schools are doing in helping the latter achieve success....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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38 Hawaiian Species Are Endangered, Agency Says
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 PM :: 5999 Views :: Environment, Land Use
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...the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has listed three tree snail species and 35 plant species on the island cluster of Maui Nui in Hawaii as endangered ....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Public Meetings: HECO to Hear Comments on Resource Planning
By News Release @ 2:45 PM :: 4714 Views :: Energy
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...part of the Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process, which looks at how the utilities will meet future energy needs....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Biomass: Hugging a Burning Tree
By NCPA @ 1:51 PM :: 5219 Views :: Energy, Environment
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biomass could diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive and potentially increase carbon emissions....
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Thursday, May 30, 2013 |
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Who Really Gets Farm Bill Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:43 PM :: 4814 Views :: Agriculture
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Whenever Congress throws too much into one bill, special interests profit....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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City Transport 2020: The Future Can't Come Soon Enough
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 11:13 PM :: 5028 Views :: Rail
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I foresee an epic battle: Google and the Technologists vs. Sierra Club and the Greenies....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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As DHHL War Rages, Robin Danner Relinquishes Presidency of CNHA
By Selected News Articles @ 10:37 PM :: 14901 Views :: Akaka Bill, DHHL, OHA
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Michelle Kauhane, senior vice president of CNHA and former deputy director of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, will succeed her....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Chinatown Tenants: FACE does not Represent Us
By News Release @ 10:11 PM :: 6529 Views :: Honolulu County, Cost of Living
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FACE continued claiming to represent residents through its support group OH-NO as late as the October 2012 Budget Cmte meeting, four months after the state administratively dissolved OH-NO....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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DLNR Requires Permit for Canoe, Paddleboard--Swimmers OK for Now
By News Release @ 7:07 PM :: 7835 Views :: Environment, Small Business
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....special use permits – with specific use conditions -- for non-commercial recreational use of kayaks, stand-up paddle boards and one-person canoes....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Hawaii TEA Party Groups Sue IRS
By News Release @ 5:34 PM :: 7629 Views :: First Amendment, TEA Party
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...six counts arguing the federal government violated the Constitution, federal law, and even its own rules and regulations....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Meet the Cult Leader: Hawaii Resort Developer Teams Up with Arianna Huffington
By Selected News Articles @ 4:42 PM :: 11703 Views :: Ethics, Development, Pierre Omidyar
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In order to properly greet Huffington to the Isles, we present readers with some of the best material out there on this very strange bird....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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NYT: Up to 34% of Installed Solar Panels Defective
By Selected News Articles @ 2:05 PM :: 4309 Views
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First Solar, one of the United States’ biggest manufacturers, has set aside $271.2 million to cover the costs of replacing defective modules....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Public Spending Per Student Drops
By NCPA @ 1:43 PM :: 4023 Views :: Education K-12
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In 2011, public education spending dropped for the first time in more than three decades....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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ObamaCare Discriminates against People without Bank Accounts
By NCPA @ 1:40 PM :: 4068 Views :: Health Care
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There is no federal law that requires health insurers to accept all forms of payment, including credit cards or the cash-loaded, pre-paid debit cards that people without bank accounts often rely on....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Heritage: Join the Fight Against Common Core
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 4728 Views :: Education K-12
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Common Core is an effort to centralize education by dictating the standards and assessments that will determine the content taught in every public school across the country.....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Governor Sees Council on Revenues Forecast as Sign of Strong Economy
By News Release @ 4:05 AM :: 6028 Views :: Economy, Hawaii State Government
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Council on Revenues revised forecast reaffirming its previous General Fund tax revenue projection for the current fiscal year and increasing its projections for the next three fiscal years....
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 |
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Group Organizes to Save Jefferson School
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 6881 Views :: Education K-12, Development
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...let the community know of the dangers that Jefferson Elementary School faces because of the existence of Senate Bill 237, commonly known as the 21st Century Bill....
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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Dueling Petitions as HSTA Targets Principal of Kapaa Middle School
By News Release @ 5:36 PM :: 6056 Views :: Education K-12
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...individuals are resistant to making the necessary personal changes to improve the quality of education....
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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Picking the Next Greenwood: BoR Appoints Task Force to Form Committee
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 4766 Views :: Higher Education
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The Board will hold a public, facilitated meeting in early June to consider the process for the selection of the University’s next leader....
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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Hawaii residents renew fight for free market in shipping
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:29 PM :: 5179 Views :: Jones Act
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Carroll’s lawsuit was dismissed on standing, but he filed an appeal Thursday, May 23....
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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Hawaii Congressional Delegation How They Voted May 28, 2013
By Congress.org @ 2:11 PM :: 4373 Views :: Congressional Delegation
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- Senate: Farm Bill Amendment Vote
- House: Keystone Pipeline Approval Final Passage
- House: Student Loan Interest Rate Reform Final Passage
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 |
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VIDEO: Time to Shrink the Monster
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:51 PM :: 6045 Views :: National News, Taxes
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A new video by Bankrupting America....
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Monday, May 27, 2013 |
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Serving Those Who Served
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:14 PM :: 5067 Views :: Military
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 |
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A New Moral Treatment: Humane institutionalization can help the mentally ill and protect society
By Selected News Articles @ 10:22 PM :: 8554 Views :: Health Care, Second Amendment
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...over 90 percent of patients who would have been committed before deinstitutionalization are now out in the world....
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 |
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So you don’t think Stop Rail Appeal has a Chance?
By Honolulu Traffic @ 9:07 PM :: 6093 Views :: Rail
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Here’s what you need to know about our appeal....
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 |
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Hawaii Republican Assembly Elects New Board of Directors
By News Release @ 2:58 PM :: 5780 Views :: Republican Party
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New officers were unanimously elected at the organizing meeting of the Hawaii Republican Assembly ....
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