... Hawaii’s ranking in children’s economic well-being dropped in one year from 25th to 44th, according to the 2021 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report analyzing how families fared between the Great Recession and the start of the COVID-19 crisis ....

... we can use an emergency to FORCE the homeless back on to the streets but we can't use an emergency to build SRO housing for the homeless and then FORCE them to use it.  This is an artificailly created crisis ....

... Statewide 595,300 were employed and 52,150 unemployed in May ....

... in April 2021 the state of Hawaiʻi had 53,000 people unemployed and 27,415 job openings ....

... State taxes a major driver of the exodus ....

... Russia says that they are 300 miles off the coast of Hawaii, yet unconfirmed satellite images from June 19 appear to show them much closer - within 35 miles of the U.S. state ....

... according to this study 105% of Hawaii's homeless are enrolled at UH ....

... New guidance document to integrate Native Hawaiian culture into management of Papahānaumokuākea ....

... Gov. David Ige has notified legislative leaders and key lawmakers of his intent to veto 28 out of 268 bills passed during the 2021 Hawai‘i legislative session .... 

... In order to steer a consulting contract to its former Board Chair, Colleen Hanabusa, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART), a federally-funded rail transit project, imposed the following narrowly tailored requirements on bidders ....

... Admittance into the DCIL enables the companies to conduct business in Hawaii without first obtaining a state money transmitter license ....

... Taxing Income in the New World of Teleworking ....

... Anyone Claiming That An Affordable Housing Project Might Impact Their Property Interests In A "Clean And Healthful Environment" Has Standing To Object ....

... More than a year into the COVID-19 emergency, we’re still experiencing the many ways in which the government can regulate and limit our daily lives ....

... Hawaii - Tahiti flights begin Aug 7 ....

... Wilcox utilized his Kailua clothing company, “Armed and Dangerous,” as a front business to launder cash drug proceeds ....

... The BOE also tapped Hayashi to be interim before current Superintendent Christina Kishimoto was hired in August 2017 ....

... Applications for Commissioners on the first-ever Honolulu Youth Commission will be accepted beginning Thursday, June 17, 2021 through Friday, July 16, 2021 ....

... Maui County Democrats will now scramble for the next prize--appointment to DeCoite's vacant House seat ....

... Police reported seizing more than $160,000 in cash, along with gambling ledgers and paraphernalia, from an illegal cockfighting derby attended by 300 to 400 people last month on Molokai ....

... The Legislature’s decision to strip the county’s share of TAT revenues is certainly a stark change from just a few years ago ....

... the trial court sanctioned 'Judges for Justice' $17,000 for making the request ....

"...I support HB 862 as it provides the City the option of restoring a revenue base which has been lost – allowing us to continue services to our people...."

... Department of Labor & Industrial Relations (DLIR) today announced it will start processing MEUC applications beginning on June 17, 2021 ....

... States Hurt the Most by the European Travel Ban -- Hawaii 5th ....

“It is the height of irony that those claiming to right the wrongs of the past fail to see they are perpetuating them by seeking to override American Samoa’s precious self determination from without."

... Officers responded to calls of a burglary in progress in the Nuuanu area where they shot 29-year-old Lindani Myeni after an altercation at a home on Coelho Way ....

... SB 404 would roll back key transparency protections, making it almost impossible for voters to know who is paying for an election advertisement, and why, about a political candidate ....

... routed the proceeds of these schemes through at least six pieces of real estate on the Island of Hawaii ....

... A University of Hawaii position currently occupied by a tenured faculty member is potentially being eliminated because of a legislative bill designed to target that specific job position ....

"... a household of four people earning up to $100,700 a year in total and demonstrating financial hardship from the pandemic can qualify for support ...."

“...The rental subsidy program offered by the City, serves more than 3,800 households in partnership with more than 1,400 landlords....”

... Transfer of Surplus Federal Land to the Hawaiian Home Lands Trust Could Provide Up To 400 New Homesteads for Native Hawaiian Families ....

...“Landlords are subject to GET on these amounts whether the payments are received from the tenants or directly from the agency that administers the relief program on behalf of the tenant.”  The same reasoning applies to income tax, federal and state....

... Federal authorities, March 30, 2021, unsealed indictments charging six DPP employees in a bribery scheme going back as far as 2012.  Challacombe had been Deputy Director of the Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting from 2013-2016, and then Acting Director in 2016-17 ....

... votes cast and bills introduced ....

... Hawaii businesses might be reopening, but Hawaii government agencies still have a ways to go ....

... Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has introduced three bills to repeal and reform the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 (PVSA), an outdated, protectionist law that harms American jobs and American tourism ....

... The Hawvers and the Chocks were plaintiffs alongside Rose Dradi, a Keanu Sai-Dexter Kiama collaborator, in a now-dismissed Sept 7, 2018 lawsuit claiming the IRS had no legal authority to collect taxes from them ....

... Social gatherings up to 25 people allowed outdoors ....

... Join us online for a series of free webinars ....

... Thursday, June 17, 2021, from 9-11 a.m. ....

... The funds target preservation of Native Hawaiian history, heritage and culture programs ....

... the short two-year duration will allow HSTA to begin this process once more in a little over a year’s time with the next permanent superintendent ....

... a retrospective of one of the Hawaii Supreme Court's most famous (or infamous) decisions ....

... Qualified customers will get help with installation of charging equipment ....

... The lawsuit seeks to end HPD’s continuing policy of allowing officers with conflicts of interest to abuse their police powers for personal benefit ....

... $800K to fund loans up to $40,000 each ....

... The biggest gainer in this year’s index is Honolulu. The city rose 46 places to fourteenth after its strong progress in containing the pandemic and rolling out its vaccination programme .... 

... OHA is hosting three public Zoom meetings to provide the public with an overview of the proposed biennium budget on Thursday, June 10 at 6 p.m., Saturday, June 12 at 9 a.m., and Monday, June 14 at 4 p.m. ....