Entries for 'Rep Gene Ward'

"We’ve got to wake up and sell development rights along the rail, like they do in Japan and Hong Kong."

According to Deputy Attorney General Diane Tiara, the Hawaii Kai Homeless Map poses no legal or constitutional issues....

Civil Disobedience Idea: Make a map of homeless camps in YOUR community....

...there’s still a better way and it’s pretty simple and practiced by the best rail systems in the world....

...so E Oahu residents are against sweeps....

Dr. Sarah Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health....

...no one in the Senate or the House was ever consulted by leadership's terse "Notice to Intervene"....

"The only model we have in Hawaii is Kauai Island Utility and its rates are among the highest in the State and nation."

...I believe the SSMA is written in a rather one-sided manner....

“The bottom line of this bill is to start saving lives."

Voting has been compulsory in Australia since 1912 and appears to have reached about 94% voter turn-out in most elections....

"We listened, and we heard an open invitation to work with Governor Ige on legislative issues...."

...the people of Hawaii are paying thousands of dollars more per family to subsidize this act....

...legislation that will make it legal for a terminally ill patient to access investigational drugs....

Souki's call for a pension tax on older, well-off residents of Hawaii is like Governor Abercrombie's Pension Tax of 2011...

Hawaii Solutions is the only state Super PAC focused on getting more Republicans elected to the State Legislature and the funds raised at this event will go directly to do just that....

Republicans in the State House of Representatives successfully led the way in opposing a series of bills that would have resulted in lasting damage to our environment....

The bank's board of directors is appointed by, and serves at the pleasure of, the Governor....

We have the best bank and best airline in the nation; we’re the national leader for renewable energy, have the largest solar telescope in the world, serve as the home of the Pacific Command responsible for the security of over 50% of the earth’s surface, have the biggest shipyard in the US: Pearl Harbor, as well one of only two missile ranges in the nation; and grow 80% of the world’s seed corn in our soil....

...Abercrombie's solutions focus on spending more on government services rather than growing our economy and creating jobs. His statement today didn't even mention our small businesses or entrepreneurs ....

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s statements against the Pro Bowl last Thursday revealed the severity of the vision deficit facing our state.

The Governor’s proposal will require Hawai’i citizens, particularly our seniors to fork over more than $100 million, at a time when their families are struggling to make ends meet.  In total his budget will increase taxes by over half a billion dollars in the next two years.