"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"

Doug Chin is former managing director for the City and County of Honolulu.  Randy Iwase was Supervising Deputy Attorney General whose division provided legal counsel to the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the Public Utilities Commission....

Tuesday January 20, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Kailua District Park, Multipurpose Room, 21 South Kainalu Drive....

...a new report from the Hawaii Commerce and Consumer Affairs Department shows the Connector won’t be fiscally sustainable until 2022....

...at the Wai'anae Boat Harbor, outreach workers are trying to help transition to supportive housing....

The collaborative is a partnership among four Hawaiian firms: Edith Kanaka‘ole Foundation; DTL; PBR Hawai‘i; and WCIT Architecture....

At that point—and hopefully sooner—all students should have transferred to other schools....

...to fill one Maui County seat and one City and County of Honolulu seat for 5-year appointments, beginning July 1, 2015....

Firearms Policy Coalition and a dozen other civil rights groups ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on an NRA-backed lawsuit....

the text of McCain's proposed amendment repeals the US Build requirement of the Jones Act....

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

...keeping the Oahu half-percent rail surcharge in place will only encourage lawmakers to increase the surcharge whenever there is a rail transit shortfall....

State land records show the couple illegally built two bed and breakfast units and operated the lucrative business for more than a decade in a conservation district in Hanalei....

Insurance Division Releases Annual Premium Comparison Guide to Help Residents Shop and Compare....

Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 4:30PM William S Richardson School of Law ....

The Native Hawaiian Roll Is Filled With Fraud - All Those Names Of People Lifted From Other Lists....

...for not permitting it to use their site on Maui's north shore for things like weddings....

Hawaii's Effective 13.4% rate of taxation on the poorest 20% is second only to Washington State....

Top concerns include the state economy, education, the Hawaii Health Connector, oversight of the Public Utilities Commission in light of the Hawaiian Electric Industries/NextEra merger, and positively affecting the cost of living for Hawaii residents....

The annual median wage for STEM workers (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Houston than in Honolulu....

The Affordable Care Act is now law, but controversy over the bill is far from over....

American sugar prices would be a lot lower if the government would stop interfering in the sugar market....

Saturday, January 31, 2015 @ Kewalo Basin Park- check in 6:30 am- start @ 7:00 am....

OHA's promised 'neutrality' regarding any choice between State recognition, Federal recognition or International recognition is gone....

...Caldwell announced that the rehabilitation of Kamehameha IV Road in Kalihi Valley will include a “road diet”....

Students were given a letter to take home to their parents as a reminder ....

Retailers in the gun industry say they’re being discriminated against....

...To date, the ILWU and PMA have reached tentative agreements on health care and increases to pay guarantees....

She previously told PBN that she would like to continue as chair....

...five states with the lowest costs Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Hawaii....

Thursday, February 19 at the Ko`olau Ballrooms in Kaneohe....

The board of directors and management of NEE became more familiar with HEI through NEE’s involvement with energy projects in Hawaii in 2011....

Hawaii receives 23.5 percent of its total state general revenues from the federal government....

Those served include many seniors who have been homeless for over 10 years (41%)....

...According to a report by the Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, it lifts more families out of poverty than any other federal policy....

From Opening Day to Sine Die....

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

All of the problems sister isle medical patients face trace back to Randy Perreira's need to keep his pathetic little union presidency job....

...what is to prevent community colleges from escalating tuition and fees once the federal government – via taxpayers – begins paying the tab?

“Islamophobic is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons....”

Professor and Transportation expert, Panos Prevedouros joins host Keli'i Akina to discuss Oahu's fixed-rail project....

Setting the stage as the executives walked in, the Hawaiian flag flew upside down outside HHSC's Leahi Hospital....

Without the six-month extension, Medicaid providers in Hawaii would have suffered a 48 percent pay cut....

...HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president’s 16-day vacation. That’s $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012....

...placing a lien for unpaid civil fines on agricultural property where sludge from the Hawaii Kai Marina was illegally dumped....

The case thus represents a target-rich environment for the petitioners and the court....

In Hawaii, we have the right to transparency. We just don’t have actual transparency....