Given the nature of negotiations, the proposal HSTA took to the table is a starting point and is subject to change....

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Growth in total visitor expenditures and arrivals in every month of the year elevated annual 2012 total visitor expenditures to a record $14.3 billion....

All Hawaii public school principals will receive enhanced supports and evaluations beginning in the 2013-14 school year under an agreement between the Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) and the Hawaii Government Employees Association (HGEA)....

Hawaii Renewable Energy Projects Directory....

“So that there is no mistake, or confusion, and our position is clear and apart from both the Executive and Majority Legislative branches...."

Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....

• Queens: 54 patients waiting
• Maui Memorial: 41 patients waiting
• Kuakini Hospital: 20 patients waiting

Think your state has equal representation in the Senate? Well, that could be eliminated soon.

Abercrombie was right about one thing in his 2013 State of the State speech, there are too many answers in the form of solutions being proposed before sufficient questions are asked and researched....

No hunter or target shooter currently uses an “assault weapon”. The term is a political and media invention, intended to cause confusion....

House Bill 17 is scheduled for its first hearing in the House Committee on Water and Land on Friday, January 25 at 8:30 a.m. in House Conference Room 325....

In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month....

"...we have a pretty good mess on First Wind and it is looking like it is going to get a lot worse and quickly...."

Today, the House will vote on a proposal that would suspend the debt ceiling until May 19....

The purpose of the NPC is solely to advise, inform and make recommendations to the Secretary of Energy with respect to any matters relating to oil and natural gas....

As public audits recently revealed, it's difficult to trust the Department of Health to spend our tax dollars wisely....  

“I believe comprehensive educational reform can still be done, but not with the ill will the current administration has sown among the educators."

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....