...Hawaii's Flu Vaccination Rate is 49.2 Percent, 18th Highest....

...Hokama also asked Thom Williams, executive director of the ERS, if the debt would still be owed if the county went bankrupt....

...Hawaii’s entrenched state and county bureaucracies delaying the advance of high technology into their own operations....

...To help provide a sense of how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would impact real taxpayers, we’ve run the taxes of eight example households....

...the second in a planned series of four editorials focusing on the impacts of Jones Act cabotage on the U.S. economy....

...DOH has filed a report with the Legislature identifying 14 priority areas of the state where 43,000 cesspool upgrades are critically needed to protect public health and the environment....

...Tourists are attracted to places with well-known Rat Lungworm infestations.  it is a selling point.  Really....

...Tests by USDA Lab Show No Evidence of Diphacinone in Whale Livers....

...Crime and Inability to Join Military or Workforce Present National Crisis....

...FY 19 amendments total $85.5 million – an increase of .6 percent over FY 19...FY 19 amendments total $1.497 billion, an increase of 215 percent over FY 19 CIP....

• Senate: Grasz Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Willett Nomination - Confirmation
• Senate: Ho Nomination - Confirmation
• House: Mortgage Lender Escrow Requirement Exemption
• House: Iranian Asset Report Requirement
• House: Privacy Notice Requirement Exemption
• House: Iranian Aircraft Purchase Transactions

...How Tickets Forced 16 Homeless to accept Housing....

...share of sheltered homeless persons to number of volunteering hours per capita to share of income donated to charity....

...islanders to trade in “U.S. government handouts, which are scheduled to end in 2023, for the wide-open promise of Chinese-style capitalism....”

...looking to introduce legislation to combat predatory practices by game publishers. He called Star Wars: Battlefront II, an “online casino...."

...high visibility current and upcoming highways projects statewide....

...Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin issued a formal advisory opinion today stating that when the shoreline migrates landward (or mauka) due to erosion or sea level rise, the dividing line between public and private ownership also migrates mauka....

...More than half of renters in Honolulu are spending more than a third of their income on rent each month, and 29 percent are spending more than 50 percent of their monthly income....

...The ACUF has reviewed each piece of legislation voted on in both the Senate and House of Representatives to produce average scores for each chamber as well as individual scores for each sitting member....

...Improving global conditions provide a favorable environment for continued expansion in the Islands....