Entries for 'News Release'

Due to the passage of recent legislation, Kaiser Permanente is preparing to submit a letter of interest to participate in the process for the selection of a partner for Maui Memorial Medical Center....

"We were high-fiving." -- Robin Danner

...CEOs favor states that foster growth through progressive business development programs, low taxes and a quality living environment....

The Hawaii State Senate today announced a new line up of committees and committee chairs as part of its recent reorganization....

Eligible voters were mailed passcodes they may use to access their digital ballots; they have until May 15 to submit them....

Outshipments of seed are projected to total 7.97 million pounds during the 2013-14 season, down 3 percent from the revised 8.25 million pounds shipped during the previous season....

This public comment period runs from May 4, 2015 through May 15, 2015....

...provide a total of eight dispensary licenses statewide, three in Honolulu, two on Maui County and Hawaii Island, and one on Kauai. Each dispensary licensee would have the option to open up to two retail locations.... 

... July 1, 2011 through July 9, 2013, Sasao collected eleven payments from various probationers that had been assigned to him and kept the payments for his own use....

"In total, Mr. Waikiki’s schemes scammed up to 21 victims for more than $100,000.00.”

...The median women’s salary (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Virginia than in Hawaii....

...Total federal income tax breaks from 2008 through 2012: $4.2 billion....

...$20 million in capital improvement projects (CIP) funding and $8 million in operating funds....

The term of office of a circuit judge shall be ten years. The annual salary in Hawaiʻi of a circuit judge is $193,248....

Hawaii averages 6.28 hours of sleep ....

“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 ...

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....

... 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....

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

...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....

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....

...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....

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

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....

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

...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....

The number of homeless individuals on Oahu is 4,903, a 4% (191) increase over 2014. The percentage of those who are unsheltered is 40% (1,939), the highest percentage since these data were collected in 2009....

The humpback whale is currently listed as endangered throughout its range. The proposed rule finds that ten of those 14 populations do not warrant ESA listing....

Modest Innovators need improvements in several policy and other foundational criteria to better create an environment for innovative companies to thrive....

Hawaii levies the second highest tax burden in the country on its low-income families. A major reason for this is the General Excise tax....

A new 50-state study, Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy....

...grants and appropriations had lapsed or were subject to de-obligation because project managers lacked accurate, complete and reliable information....

‘Ōlelo to provide live television coverage of next week’s Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s (HART) Board of Directors meeting....