On Friday, Governor John Kasich's presidential campaign filed the necessary paperwork to appear on the Hawaii Republican primary ballot....

This morning, the Supreme Court heard a challenge to the requirement in California that government employees, such as public school teachers, pay fees to the local union even if they choose not to join the union....

The commission has been meeting since March 2015 and received over 150 proposals for changes to the charter. Fifteen of those proposals have been deferred....

We are only days away from the opening of the Hawaii State Legislature....

This all began in Hawaii in 2011 when Act 195 was passed....

Serious students of history may wonder what is going on. There is, after all, a federal law that prevents Hawaii taxes from touching an airline’s gross income....

Hawaii Business Magazine published in its January 2016 issue an article entitled “Change Agents” profiling four Hawaiian activists and describing their visions for Hawaii....

Implementing K–12 programs in computer, engineering or biomedical science....

I don’t know whether or not I want to cry or scream today....

...the Obama Interior Department’s proposed regulation would be contrary to laws against racial discrimination and would be an unconstitutional end-run around Congress, which has repeatedly rejected legislation granting tribal status to Native Hawaiians....

...DLNR Officer “was fired (from Honolulu PD) in 2013 after he falsified records and lied to investigators about transporting a female runaway, who was underage.”....

Since about the 1970's, sugar plantations have been legal pariahs....

One of the leases at Banyan Drive has expired and has been placed on a month-to-month revocable permit. Other leases at Banyan Drive and in the Kanoelehua Industrial Area will expire in the next several years....

...Department of Health (DoH) officials faced scathing rebukes for doing their job well....

$104 million in omissions combine with mystery spending cuts to create unrealistic budget scenario....

... states with low levels of support tend to have higher per capita tax collections and populations with lesser reliance on federal assistance ....

One hundred and fifty years ago the 13th Amendment officially was ratified, and with it, slavery finally was abolished....

...Grassroot Institute Calls Na'i Aupuni Process an Embarrassment to the Hawaiian People....

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Neal Blaisdell Center, Hawaii Suite....

Hawaii's Industrial Hemp Research Project exceeded expectations in not only the quantity, but the quality....