| Tulsi Gabbard Hires Russian Agent to Keep Hawaii Media in Check |
...Gabbard's consultant, Chris Cooper, is allegedly one of seven identified as being at the center of illegal Russian lobbying efforts reaching into the Trump campaign and Congress....
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| Gabbard Political Career Begins in Cult School |
... "What you've got to do is get one of these kids to run for office," Butler said ....
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| Chin to Campaign on the Job for 9 More Weeks |
...will appoint committee of cronies to choose the most advantageous legal positions....
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| After Losing Million Dollar Judge, KSBE Tries to Force Victims into Mediation |
...Kamehameha School Child Molester Case - Hidden Payoff to Judge Exposed....
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| State Fires DoTax Tech Consultant After it Begins Telling Truth |
...This should give the HGEA time to sabotage the tech upgrade while nobody is around to say anything....
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| Auditors couldn't figure out what this state office does - or plans to do |
...Energy Office's personnel costs now account for more than 90 percent of the office's expenses....
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| GEMS Takes One on the Chin from the PUC |
...the PUC has basically said that it expects the program to crash and burn....
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| Honolulu GOP: Key Issues in 2018 Legislature |
...look for the following bills to be revived in the 2018 legislative session....
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| Your paycheck going up soon because of Republican tax cuts |
...Millions of working Americans should start seeing fatter paychecks as early as next month....
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| Supreme Court Justices asked to uphold third Trump immigration order |
...This request, in a case from Hawaii, is the first of two that the government is expected to file....
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| Attorney General Jeff Sessions Appoints Kenji Price As Interim United States Attorney for Hawaii |
..."Kenji Price is a former Army Ranger with two Bronze stars, and a former federal prosecutor who worked organized crime, public corruption, and international drug trafficking cases-including against the Sinaloa Cartel," said Attorney General Sessions....
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| Complete List: 35 Hawaii Legislators have a Second Job |
...Sen. Will Espero: "...for a while I was looking for a job, and I couldn't find one, or nobody would hire me," he says, until he got a job doing community relations at D.R. Horton....
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| $82K Per Bum: Hospitals Rake in $1.2B Treating Homeless Shelter-Refusers |
...a very small percentage of our population on Medicaid, about 3.6 percent, were consuming 61 percent of our Medicaid resource....
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| Victim Sues DLNR For Hiring HGEA President's Rapist Son as Cop |
...Ferguson was fired by the Honolulu Police Department in 2012 for misconduct involving a teenage runaway. The department had told DLNR not to hire Ferguson when he applied to become an officer with DLNR's Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement....
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| Maui hospitals point the way |
...the state should consider privatizing more of its medical facilities....
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| HGEA Hospital Workers who let Saito Escape to Stockton are back at work after 1 Month Vacation |
...Maybe his HGEA girlfriends/wives/exwives will post bond so they can be with him in their love nest at the State hospital....
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| Report: 3 Patients Responsible for 25% of Assaults at Mental Hospital |
...Analysis of data revealed that just 10% of active patients (55 of 532) were responsible for all assaults on staff. In fact, more than one-fourth were attributable to 3 highly-assaultive patients....
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| DBEDT: 31% of Hawaii families can't cover basic needs |
... this study defines economic self-sufficiency as the amount of money that individuals and families require to meet their basic needs without government and/or other subsidies ....
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| Best Place to Find a Job? With Record Low Unemployment Honolulu Still Ranks 42nd |
...comparind more than 180 U.S. cities across 26 key indicators of job-market strength....
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| Hawaii Most Sleep Deprived State |
...Hawaii reported the lowest levels of adequate sleep at 56 percent, while South Dakota got the most sleep at 72 percent....
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| Have Honolulu Rents Peaked? |
...Currently, median rents in Honolulu stand at $1,550 for a one-bedroom apartment and $2,060 for a two-bedroom....
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| Monster Homes Only a Problem if they Create Affordable Housing |
...The irony is that the mayor has been very lax in enforcing current vacation rental laws, and has established a task force to expand permits for them. These rentals have limited the housing supply and have similar affects on the character of residential neighborhoods that he decries for monster houses....
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| Hawaii tax policy feels the heat |
... The administration just told New York and New Jersey they would have to fund their $13 billion Hudson Tunnel rail project on their own, backing out of an Obama-era promise to foot half the bill ....
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| Next Trick to Justify Higher Rail Costs-P3 Plan Designed to Fail |
...The Federal Transit Administration will decide in 2018 whether a controversial new financing plan for Honolulu's $9 billion rail line is backed by enough money....
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| Greasing the HSTA: Ige Requests $174M More In Education Spending |
...Ige's supplemental budget request to the Hawaii Legislature for next fiscal year includes an additional $24 million in state Department of Education operating funds and an extra $150 million for public school improvement projects....
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| Why save the Hawaii Aquarium Fishery? |
... We need legislation to save the fishery and all DLNR ocean issued-permit businesses ....
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| DLNR: West Hawaii Aquarium Fishing Permits Stopped Pending Environmental Review |
... applying a Hawai'i Supreme Court ruling from last year to an existing DLNR rule ....
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| Fishermen Settle Labor-Trafficking Case |
... "We hope it becomes a model for all captains who want to do right by their immigrant crew." ....
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| Tahiti Gets Superferry for 1/4 the Price |
...Hawaii Superferry was required to build its vessels in the U.S. by the Jones Act....
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| KIUC Nominating Committee Confirms Six Candidates |
...six candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 10, 2018....
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| State Robotics Championships Jan. 13-14, 2018 |
...with more than 140 elementary, middle and high school teams from around the state competing for 25 qualification slots at the VEX World Championships....
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| Application Period Begins for Preschool Open Doors Program |
... Applications received during this period will be considered for preschool participation during July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019 ....
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| UH Manoa Prof Quits Modern Language Association After Refusal to Boycott Israel |
...Israelis--the one indigenous people whose rights are not upheld by UH Manoa prof....
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| Rapid Response Team Deploys to Lehua Island After Two Rats Detected |
...We knew from the beginning there was the possibility that a few rats could linger....
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