...Grassroot Institute President Akina calls for strengthening system to improve employment incentive....

..."Congress is deemed by the Supreme Court to have exclusive and plenary power to deal with Indian affairs"....

...would parents be considered bigoted if they raised their daughters to be attracted to boys and their sons to be attracted to girls? Or must parents now be completely neutral....

...Pastor Wayne Cordeiro responds to lawsuit against five churches, three of which are New Hope churches....

...Is your church on their list?  Find out here....

..."With the current language, you're still mandating that church facilities as well as clergy be forced into supporting marriages that go against their religious beliefs."....

... "Mr. Kahle, can I ask one other question? If you could direct your threats to this board and to the senior management. Respectfully, I ask you not to threaten our employees in the field."....

...why is Senator Russell Ruderman submitting personal business testimony and signing it as a Senator?

....this is the only recorded comment by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr on homosexuality....

...Souki described the count as "soft." House leaders, who met privately on Wednesday, want a cushion of at least a few more votes before signing off on a special session....

...churches standing together number in the hundreds....

Under the Affordable Care Act, Hawaii could face millions of dollars in fines for the highest-grade health plans it offers public workers, adding to the already skyrocketing cost of health care for the state.... 

...UPS yesterday announced it is dropping coverage for spouses of employees....

...when county officials had the opportunity to push back against the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers' demands for more pay and other concessions, they merely deferred to the union....

...a special edition of "Hawaii Tomorrow" to discuss education in our islands....

...meaning they missed 15 or more days of school, according to data released Monday....

Once they establish principles for reform, legislators can choose from a menu of options.... 

...The man at the center of 2012's general election disaster will not get a $36,000 pay hike....

...adult obesity in Hawaii has increased nearly three times from that it was a little over 20 years ago. In the past year alone, obesity has risen more than seven percent....

...The 5,345 Hawaii students, most of whom took the ACT as juniors in 2012 and graduated this past spring, represent about 40 percent of the Class of 2013....

...Recipe for Success: If the test numbers are bad, change the test....

...Waste-to-energy and Geothermal power plants are among the best choices.....

...During the hearing on Bill 2491 on Kauai a council member "Gary Hoosier" said the seed companies paid zero Hawaii taxes.....

...the orchestration of the hearing and the invitations sent by the chair to selected mainland-based organizations were designed to provide the committee exclusively with the opinions of only those experts on one side.... 

...The Hawaii Health Connector offers only policies from HMSA and Kaiser.  Now your tax dollars are funding an ad campaign urging people to use your tax dollars to buy themselves insurance from HMSA and Kaiser....

...Recently, the Rhode Island legislature adopted a law requiring that state tax credits undergo a process of regular and rigorous evaluations....

enthusiastic supporters of some very specific causes pushed lawmakers to allow taxpayers to designate a portion of their state tax refund for their specific cause.... 

BOEM's Pacific Region is responsible for managing the development of ... renewable energy resources (wind, wave, ocean current) on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.... 

Dobelle spent "$8,000 for a four-night stay at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Bangkok; $883 from the upscale clothing store Louis Boston; $10,000 for tickets to shows at Tanglewood; more than $4,000 for limousine rides" and a total of $200,000.... 

...52 percent answered, "Yes," to amending the Constitution, 43 percent said, "No, " and 5 percent did not know or refused to answer.... 

...Here are links to the cases and other materials (and more) we spoke about at the Aug 21 conference on Eminent Domain and Condemnation in Hawaii....