We should proceed with cautious optimism and be careful not to overcommit our state’s financial resources during our fragile economic recovery....

• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Substitute Amendment
• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Long-term Recovery Aid
• House: Sandy Recovery Supplemental – Final Passage
• House: Disaster Aid Reform

The virus of absolutism now infecting the Congress of the United States appears to be seeping into Hawaii....

Repeal Bills:  SB 1; SBs 245, 246; SB 338; SB 425; SB 480; SB 663; SBs 780, 781; SB 866....

...the state Office of Planning is now drafting a resolution for Abercrombie to sign as an executive policy, recognizing that TOD is a priority of state government....

...who is going to be held responsible if one of their patients decides to take out some poor store clerk? Is the shooter's doctor now a potential target for a lawsuit? Can the shooter claim at his trial that he was not properly counseled by his physician?

Obama was honest about his intentions to grow government in order to remake our country along his progressive vision....

Hawaii Families for Educational Choice is proud to participate in this nation wide effort and will be hosting several events during National School Choice Week....

In 2011, he had attempted to pass a soda tax under the Orwellian title “Sugary Beverage Healthy Hawaii Fee,” but the state legislature saw through the obfuscating rhetoric and defeated it.

Under the agreement, The Garden Island, with a total average circulation of 9,509 daily and 8,413 on Sundays, will continue to be published Monday through Friday and Sunday.

In both percentage and numerical terms, the Hawaii Legislature has fewer Republicans in its ranks than non-communists in communist China’s National People’s Congress....

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob.  They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.

The politics of division and class warfare, the centerpiece of Obama’s campaign rhetoric, are the antithesis of King’s dream....

The politics of the civil rights struggle has much in common with Hawai`i’s path to statehood....

In 2003, Hawaii congressman Ed Case introduced legislation to free his state from the Jones Act....

A 12 ounce soda would cost 12 cents more....

Conservative ideas work. Numerous states are demonstrating that low taxes, right-to-work laws, school choice, energy development and other common-sense policies improve the lives of everyone....

The author of this outrageous left-wing fever dream is John Dickerson, the political director at CBS News....

...each bright, shiny and eager face will have an agenda to deliver to his or her constituents back in their home districts. That means money!

Hundreds of local hunters and their supporters rallied at the Capitol today as at least one Senator backed away from a gun control measure he had earlier introduced....

Caucus meetings are open to all Republican Party members. You can sign up at www.GOPHawaii.com if you are not already a member.

40^th Annual March for Life rally at the State Capitol on Saturday, January 26, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m....

“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”

Effective Feb. 1, 2013, GA payments will be reduced from $319 to $298 per person per month for an estimated 5,537 Hawaii beneficiaries....

Opening enrollment for the University of Hawai‘i System for the spring 2013 semester stands at 55,373 students, a slight decline of 1,303 students, or 2.3 percent, compared to spring 2012....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' unpublished memorandum opinion in Diamond v. Dobbin....

Beginning this month, schools will mail or ask students to bring the surveys home....

To date, one school has successfully applied for funds. Because the school was not awarded the full amount of the carryover, HIDOE has asked USDOE for approval to use the balance of the carryover for ... Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind (HSDB).

Rep Thielen introduced House Bill 9 to repeal the controversial Public Lands Development Corporation....

"VSE was unaware that despite DEI’s military ordnance background, the company had no experience with fireworks disposal.”

...a survey through which we could measure the military-friendly policies enacted at each school....

Many small-business owners haven't yet realized that the way they structure their firm in 2013 could determine their status under the law in a year's time....

Thousands of developed U.S. Forest Service recreation areas have utilized this PPP model successfully for more than 25 years....

“Given the weak track record of federal mental health programs, states should exercise primary responsibility for determining appropriate mental health services, which will entail eliminating restrictions currently imposed by the federal government.”

...the total staff-to-faculty and total staff-to-enrollment ratios for UHM are also consistently and substantially below the averages...

Overall, the $1.40 billion of education-related expenditures attributable to UHM generated $2.45 billion in local business sales, $735 million in employee earnings, $131 million in state tax revenues, and slightly under 20,000 jobs in Hawai‘i in FY2012....

...The Gas Company relies on a single source for its SNG: the Tesoro oil refinery....

“The State informed HSTA that there will be a formal response made at our next bargaining session on January 22."

"If the Legislature cannot achieve this outcome, the possibility of repeal will ensue."

...schools that enter into these contracts and see their electric bills drop will actually get to keep the savings as a result....

Thank God, this body will once again have daily prayer, because if ever there was a time elected officials should call on a higher authority for guidance, it is now.

I hope, first and foremost, that there will be NO new tax burdens thrust upon our citizens … that we will not automatically open the taxpayers’ pocketbooks to every budget request, every new proposal, every capital improvement project....

ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase....

"Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health." 

“As we observe Religious Freedom Day, let us remember the legacy of faith and independence we have inherited, and let us honor it by forever upholding our right to exercise our beliefs free from prejudice or persecution.” -- President Barack Obama

Should the Legislature require the state Public Utilities Commission to approve energy projects that further the state’s renewable energy goals even if it costs consumers more?  -- NO 75%

NFIB is recruiting members to serve on its Hawaii state Leadership Council....

Toxic chemicals managed, treated or released into the environment from facilities operating in Hawaii slightly increased in 2011 when compared to 2010....

Approximately four years ago, the Hawaii State Legislature commissioned Stroudwater Associates to evaluate our Hawaii Health System Safety Net Hospitals....

The Senate preceded the House in this action in 1981 ....