Entries for April 2015

“The proposed bill will give the state the beach front property around Kawela Bay in fee simple for $35 million...."

Before signing a long-term lease, ask yourself some questions....

Read detailed Hospital Safety Scores for nine Hawaii Hospitals ...

...when people can resort to this kind of behavior, it really shows that they are not capable of considering the consequences of their actions....

NOAA is often influenced by the large environmental lobbies that have no personal stake in the region....

DHHL is pursuing claims for damages against SORT, which includes but is not limited to the cost to clean-up and remediate the property, in an action currently pending in the First Circuit Court....

Watch HART try to pitch a Property Tax hike in order to make the GE tax seem palatable....

Joe McIlhaney, MD is the Founder and Chairman of The Medical Institute for Sexual Health....

...77 separate contributions by Navatek or by employees linked to Navatek made to elected officials totaling $81,000....

... But the Maui News isn't so sure it still won't be sabotaged....

All voting is done online or by phone. Registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail including a passcode they will need to use in order to access their digital ballot. This passcode was mailed out on April 23, 2015....

House Appoints Conferees, Conference Committee to meet Tues 5PM....

"Whenever there is a new product, whether it be powdered alcohol or e-cigarettes, we want to jump on it, and ban it."

...the number of self-employed Americans is expected to rise to more than 60 million by 2020....

Having two accidents in the last two years on your record is the most costly traffic violation....

The survey asks participants about how possible OHA stances on the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope affects their views regarding OHA....

I lived as a woman for eight years....

...will be updated daily, shortly after decisions are made in the Conference Committee budget meetings....

• Senate: Human Trafficking Victims' Fund - Passage
• Senate: Lynch Nomination – Cloture
• House: Consumer Financial Protection Advisory Boards – Passage

...these efforts were unsuccessful largely as a result of federal and state regulators seeking to impose financial penalties and conditions on buyers and teach-out partners....

...Exchanges run by the federal government both retained a higher percentage of 2014 enrollees and enrolled a higher percentage of new enrollees in 2015 than states that run their own exchanges....

...OHA has a financial interest in the outcome of the dispute....

Voters may use the passcodes to cast ballots online via their computers or mobile devices from today, April 24, until May 15....

...The UH Cancer Center is being administratively incorporated into JABSOM to improve efficiency....

...Hirono, Schatz, Takai already endorse Hillary....

"...Ten years of rent and revenue sharing lost = $500,000,000 .... "

"While tobacco use among Hawaii’s public middle and high school students has declined over the past decade, e-cigarette use has been increasing rapidly."

OHA recommends the following or similar guidelines for the valuation of future subleases for telescopes on Mauna Kea, including the TMT....

On February 27, 2013, the department conducted department-wide training for deputies whose clients administer non-general fund....

Perhaps the largest expenses these operators are forbidden from deducting under § 280E are the excise taxes and license fees they pay to the state....

...a meeting tomorrow (April 24) for representatives from the Governor’s office, the University of Hawaiʻi, the Office of Mauna Kea Management, the Mauna Kea Hui, the Mauna Kea ʻOhana, and OHA to di$cuss the thirty ­meter telescope....

...regulations should then be applied equitably to taxi and ride-sharing companies and drivers....

Hawaii's Ohana Policy Group is developing strategies and tactics to combat in-school lifestyle indoctrination....

...Consumers pay for electricity twice: once through monthly electricity bills and a second time through taxes that finance subsidies for inefficient wind and other energy producers....

Heavy-rail lines have much higher capacities because train lengths are limited only by platform lengths, which in most cases is 8 to 11 cars. But Honolulu is building a heavy-rail line whose platforms are only long enough to allow four 60-foot cars....

One-time lump sum payment of $2000 for all active, full-time licensed teachers....

The clearance paves the way for an anticipated final closing before the end of the second quarter....

...that 95-year-old law has become a key bargaining chip in one of the world’s largest trade accords....

"I don't think we should get all agitated and upset when there's an effort to look at the Jones Act," Murkowski said....

Students for a Free Tibet has launched a global “Say No to China’s Confucius Institutes” campaign....

Since 1990, Roll Call has been tracking the potential influence each state has on national affairs....

...HB321, SD2 proposes a 15% gross proceeds tax and a 10% special sales tax on so-called 'medical' marijuana sold in Hawaii....

...projects will take place in West Hawai‘i, West Maui, and He’eia (O’ahu)....

House and Senate conferees met today to begin negotiations on a final version of HB500, the state budget bill....

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has continued to urge Governor Ige and University of Hawaiʻi President Lassner to address the outstanding legal i$$ue$ involved in the planned Mauna Kea thirty-meter telescope before the moratorium on construction is lifted....

On April 21, 1898, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with the United States in a long-simmering dispute over Cuba....