Entries for 'News Release'

...these units would account for up to 25 percent of Hawai‘i’s total lodging inventory. In comparison, hotels units make up approximately 50 percent of visitor accommodations....

Despite being unemployed and residing in a homeless shelter, Mr. Rios applied to be a foster parent, and was deemed fit to serve as one by DHS....

"We will spend public funds wisely to avoid raising taxes."

ILWU slowdown tactics have reduced productivity at Pacific Northwest ports for more than a month and a half....

West Loch, Waipahu Transit Center and Leeward Community College stations....

...how many workers commute in and out of the area on a typical workday? ....

Monday, December 29, 2014, 9:00 AM, Conference Room 329, State Capitol....

“Serving on your Neighborhood Board presents the opportunity to create real change in your community, build a legacy, and network with other leaders.” 

This report does not make any substantive recommendations to the Legislature related to innovations that should be included in a waiver proposal....

The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) announced several steps to explore new revenue sources in an effort to worsen your financial challenges....

This is happening now because Dan Inouye is dead.  There will be more....

Candidates may apply online at www.honolulu.gov/nco ....

Tuesday, January 27th at 6:30 p.m. during the Church with No Walls service at Nanaikapono Protestant Church....

...to design and test health care payment and service delivery models that will improve health care quality and lower costs....

Benjamin has served on the Hawaiʻi Board since 2007 and has worked closely with Conservancy staff....

...Any Oahu resident who will be at least 18 years of age by February 20, 2015 can be a candidate....

The city has prepared the real property assessment notices for 2015, and the total assessed valuation of all taxable real property on Oahu has increased from $200.74 billion to $214.90 billion....

...resulting in employers paying $50 million less in taxes, or $100 less per employee on average for 2015....

...it's jarring that the first order of business under new leadership is to challenge OIP's solid ruling that seeks to keep OHA's business transparent....

Study sheds new light on e-cigarette behaviors in teens as regulators consider curbing sales to minors....

...ordered by the college administration to stop handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day....

From 2009 to 2011, he served as the FBI liaison officer to a counter-narcotics task force at U.S. Pacific Command at Camp Smith, Hawaii. In 2012, he was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Honolulu Division....

according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations....

It was done in 2002 and 2006 and it can be done again....

WalletHub ranked the 100 most populated U.S. cities to find the ones that offer the most cost-effective and accessible fitness and sports facilities....

“Evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are being used by students who are not cigarette smokers....”

Hawaii’s strengths include low prevalence of obesity and low rate of preventable hospitalizations; state’s challenges include high prevalence of binge drinking and high incidence of infectious disease....

“The only thing these churches have done is serve the schools and bring great benefit to their surrounding communities. They don’t deserve to be dragged through court any longer by two people who are seeking financial gain by attacking these congregations.”

...Robert K. Lindsey Jr. is the Trustee who put Sen Brickwood Galuteria on the payroll of Peletron Inc while Galuteria was pushing against his own community for OHA's Kakaako Makai schemes....

List of candidates who have filed as of Dec 7, 2014....

...2014’s Cities with the Highest and Lowest Population in Need....

...a nonprofit organization was lobbying at the State legislature, but had not filed lobbying expenditures and contributions reports with the Commission....

The average price of the seven new solar projects is 14 cents per kilowatt-hour....

Notably, five of the eleven highest performing public high schools in the state and two of the four highest-performing middle schools, as measured by Strive HI, are charter schools....

Hawaiiloa Foundation collected approximately $468,000 from approximately 200 individuals who went through the debt elimination process. Many of the individuals tried to use the bonds but ultimately lost their homes through foreclosure....

Friday, February 6, 2015 at the Pearl Country Club....

"We will spend public funds thoughtfully and without waste to avoid raising taxes...."

The BOE was set to approve a calendar submitted by the DOE until teachers presented their proposals....

Honolulu City Lights will celebrate three decades of tree lightings and holiday fun on Saturday, Dec. 6, starting at 6 p.m. at Honolulu Hale....

...Ige today announced the appointments of six additional members of his Cabinet and two deputy directors....

The OSD was established to immediately address the lack of overall planning and management of the city’s real estate portfolio, which has existed since the Department of Housing was eliminated in 1996....

“With this new contract, Hawaiian Electric will be purchasing approximately half our production volume...."

...the group will be composed of not fewer than nine knowledgeable individuals from Kauai....

NextEra Energy, Inc. and Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. today announced a definitive agreement under which the companies have agreed to combine....

In Hawaii and Utah total borrowing by students at public institutions spiked by more than 100 percent since the start of the Great Recession....