| Legislators Exploit Caldwell's Unpopularity to Distract Public While Enacting Massive Tax Hike |
... Make Sister Isles Pay for Rail? Big Island Senators say 'No' but Big Island Reps Ready to Stab Constituents in Back ....
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| Hanabusa: Caldwell's $548M Surprise Covers up for Something |
... While Rail Hangs in Balance, Caldwell Plans to Splurge $500M on Blaisdell ....
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| UPDATE: Billion Dollar Bailout Added to Rail Tax Hike Bill |
... SB1 has been deleted from the WAM Hearing notice and replaced by SB4.... WAM Hearing Monday 3pm, Capitol Auditorium ....
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| Hawaii Millionaire Will Go Broke Faster Than Any Other State |
...If you retire with $1 million in Hawaii, you have just shy of a dozen years to ride out your savings....
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| OPEN LETTER: Tulsi Gabbard's GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives |
...It's disheartening to see intelligent individuals on the political left like yourself continue to focus your efforts on this issue despite an overwhelming scientific consensus that indicates you are simply tilting at windmills....
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| What Does it Take to be Expelled from Manoa Mosque? |
...it has not been easy going for Saleem Ahmed....
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| Mauna Kea: UH to Trade 10,000 Acres for Telescope Approval, Lease Extension? |
... expedite the return of the 10,000 acres to the State of Hawaiʻi and pursue a new lease or land tenure for the reduced acreage that will support the continued viability of astronomical research ....
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| Carvalho for Governor? Ige to Remind Votes that...uh...uhh.... |
...Ige plans to ramp up his political fundraising efforts to raise $1 million before the end of the year to prepare for what could be a bruising Democratic primary....
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| "Rising seas will devour Waikiki, wash away billions from Hawaii's economy" |
...If they really believe this, they would shut down the Rail project immediately....
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| Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Hike--Legislators' rail funding deal makes Sister Islands Pay |
...Caldwell to Legislators $3B Tax Hike or Nothing--Promises Tax Hike Trifecta--GE Tax, TAT, Property Tax all to go up....
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| Rail represents everything that is wrong with state government |
..."It's this insider game where the unions and construction that benefits that's sort of poorly managed and largely corrupt."....
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| Rail: Hannemann, Hanabusa Pointing Fingers |
...Hannemann said if they didn't move forward then, there would be no rail today....
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| Full Text: Feds Letter Demanding Rail Plan by Sept 15 |
...The Recovery Plan does not include a financial plan with funding sufficient to cover HART's current estimated total Project cost....
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| Honolulu Republicans Protest Rail Bailout Bill |
...Senate Committee on Ways and Means to hold hearing Monday, August 28th beginning at 3pm....
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| Rail: How to Gut an Audit |
... how they follow through could make it all for naught ....
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| Full Text: Caldwell Rips Legislators' Rail Tax Hike Plan |
...we were told that this was not a negotiation but a take it or leave it situation....
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| Postpone tax talk until after rail audit |
...there is, in fact, another feasible option: no tax increases at all....
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| Keep Traffic Jammed: Rail FEIS Shows Plans for Lane-Elimination |
...buried in one of the technical reports that are referenced and made part of the FEIS so you would not be able to say they didn't tell you....
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| State GOP Calls for Forensic Audit of Rail |
...A call for Republicans to push for a forensic audit of HART and their failed rail project....
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| West Oahu Schools Underfunded? AG Responds to McDermott Suit |
... The State has asked the Intermediate Court of Appeals to affirm Judge Nacino's decision to dismiss the case ....
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| Which Counties Benefit Most From the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction? |
...how much U.S. taxpayers deduct in home mortgage interest by county....
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| Schatz: Put Everybody on Medicaid |
...Let us all share in the biggest failure....
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| Interior Dep't Sends Trump Recommendations on National Monuments |
...findings and recommendations on national monuments that were under review as a result of the April 26, 2017 executive order....
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| VIDEO: Panos on Mauna Kea Telescope |
...Panos Prevedouros joins Jay Fidell on Community Matters to discuss developments in the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) plans on Mauna Kea....
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| Oahu, Maui Events: New Directions in Education |
...Students in Hawaii have few options when it comes to school choice....
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| College Rankings: BYUH, HPU, Chaminade Trounce UH Campuses |
... College Choice Releases 2017 Rankings of the Best Colleges in Four Western States ....
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| UH Selected to Host 'Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center' |
"...while naming and honoring the ongoing pain and trauma wrought by belief in racial hierarchy, structural racism, and white privilege...."
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| Kona DLNR Harassment: Judge Throws Case out on Technicality |
...Judge Fujino dismissed the case because plaintiffs cannot file suit directly in the circuit court challenging the application of a rule....
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| Feds Search for Criminals Buying Honolulu Real Estate Thru Shell Companies |
...about 30 percent of reported transactions involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that was also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report....
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| A strange mix of piracy and racketeering |
...How Congress abets seaway robbery....
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| Saltchuk puts Matson's terminal expansion at risk? |
..."Matson signs contracts for a total of six new and upgraded cranes for Honolulu terminal"....
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| Pasha signs contract to build two containerships; what now? |
...Pasha Hawaii's announcement is in direct response to Saltchuk Resources Inc.'s press release....
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| Survey: 70 Percent of Union Members Want Re-certification Vote |
...Survey Coincides with Fifth Annual National Employee Freedom Week (Aug 20-26) to Promote Workplace Rights....
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| Pearl City: 43 Homeless Forced to Accept Shelter |
...US Vets provided transportation to its Waianae Civic Center shelter....
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| Lawsuit Filed Over Kauai Bird Deaths--HDOT Claims to be in Compliance |
...HDOT recently expended hundreds of millions of dollars to install energy efficient lighting improvements at the State airports and commercial harbors....
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