It turns out they never needed the battery system in the first place.... 

...what was left of Ansaldo Breda would turn into a "bad company" to be gradually liquidated....

The “Nirvana” of a transit-, walking-, and cycling-oriented metropolitan area proves to be no Nirvana at all.... 

"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2008

Rep. Bob McDermott, Richard Fale, Gene Ward, Jo Jordan and Marcus Oshiro address HB 1624....

...its major impact has been as a funding source for energy and food security initiatives....

...90% of the exposures occurred in a residence, 4.4% in the workplace and 1% in a school. The remaining 4% consisted of miscellaneous locations....

In Kihei, located on Maui's southwest shore, travelers will have to spend $416 per night ....

Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....

The Hawaii legislature publicly debated and then rejected a pair of Azerbaijan-initiated anti-Armenian measures....

• DATE: Thursday, February 13, 2014
• TIME: 1:15 p.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 225

...Xtreme Power earned the 15th spot on Inc. Magazine's 500/5000 list of the fast growing private companies in the U.S. in 2012--now they're BK....

...the economic life of onshore wind turbines is between 10 and 15 years, not the 20 to 25 years projected by the wind industry itself, and used for government projections....

Pono Choices, intended for young impressionable children, is clearly not age appropriate....

SB 2160, named Caylee’s Law for Caylee Anthony, would make it a felony if a parent or guardian does not report the death or disappearance (for more than 48 hours) of a child....

FLASHBACK Oct 18, 2013: “We urge you to allow Bill 2491 to become law.  We will be there to defend it.”....

After the first year of implementation, the state reduced its corrections population 4 percent, averted $2.5 million in costs, and allocated $3.4 million into its reinvestment strategies....

President Obama tells us that "health care costs are growing at the slowest rate in 50 years."....

These bills offer 50 million dollars in bonds for the Ikehu Molokai project proposed by Molokai Ranch and Princeton Energy....

Policymakers should adopt privacy measures to protect patients from potential problems with electronic health records....

Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....

February 12, the House Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts is scheduled to hear House Bill 2148 at 8:30 a.m., in House conference room 312....

If he loses their August showdown, Schatz will be the first appointee spurned in a primary since 1996....

How vibrant Hawaii’s fiscal health is depends on who you ask....

Hurting workers doesn’t play well in an election year.....

...examining allegations of administrative abuses and an ongoing failure to provide a safe work environment at the Hawaii State Hospital....

...Abercrombie today announced the appointment and promotion (resignation) of Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia as Chief Advisor for Technology and Cyber-Security (CIO), effective Feb. 18, 2014....

It doesn’t take long to figure out that people haven’t learned a blessed thing from flushing $20 billion down the toilet....

Upcoming Congressional Bills

• Senate: Military Retirement Pay
• House: Consumer Financial Protection and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013

This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....

"I will be out of the office starting 02/07/2014 and will not return until 04/30/2014....."

On the 50th anniversary of the ‘War on Poverty’, poverty and income inequality are major policy issues ....

The Lincoln Day Dinner registration deadline is February 13th....

Shapiro has closely examined the relationship between law and freedom....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 7, 2014....

"He specifically targeted troubled and special-needs children...."

Iwasa said her top priorities for both her district and Honolulu County as a whole are budget, transparency and accountability, and land use and infrastructure....

Hawaii legislators set to hear a bill to combat fraudulent lien filings on February 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in room 229 at the Hawaii Capitol....

The Hawaii Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("Little RFRA") of 2014 would restrict government actions against people of faith by applying the "compelling interest" test....

...Hawaii has some of the most generous welfare benefits in the country, and one man took full advantage of them....

93 percent more liberal than the rest of the Senate on economic issues, 73 percent more liberal on social issues, and 71 percent more liberal on foreign policy issues....

Balli, 42, of Kapolei, was killed in an insurgent attack in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 20....

...replacements, renovations and upgrades to our aging infrastructure at several state hospital facilities....