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...The data set ranges from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health care....

During floor session today (March 5th, 2015) after 1:00 PM, House Finance Chair stood up and requested a waiver of the 48-hour requirement to hear an agenda of bills with just one hour of notice....

Evangelical Protestants are becoming less white....

"...inappropriate behavior and bribery that could happen during legislative session and when legislators fund raise during session.”

Neighborhood Board elections will be held in April and May of this year....

...In 1950, 43 percent of global shipping was done by US-flagged vessels. According to a 2009 Department of Transportation report that percentage has fallen to 1.5 percent....

...testimony of marijuana supporters argue that the bills being considered should decriminalize marijuana for BOTH adults and minors....

Ownership of a Hawaiian vacation rental has become a dangerous investment....

...Seventeenth Amendment issues matter. Its strange wording allows legislatures to game the system....

The 2015 Neighborhood Board elections will be held in April and May of this year. At stake are 437 seats on Oahu’s 33 Neighborhood Boards, whose volunteer members hold monthly meetings and serve as advisors on community concerns....

As the Minority member on the House Special Committee to investigate the residency challenge to Rep. Calvin Say, I know many people expected me to put forward a dissenting opinion....

...The question now is not whether the dispensary bills will pass, but more what these bills will look like....

The problems were partly due to mismanagement but even more, as I have suggested, to the dishonesty of the leadership and its willingness — even eagerness — to shamelessly lie to its own employees....

Marijuana advocates are hard at work trying to game the system....

Italy’s largest union, Cgil, called for “a meeting with the government to discuss the possibility of blocking the sale to protect jobs and one of the country’s strategic industries.”

...While the FCC is inserting government bureaucracy into all aspects of Internet access, the FEC is debating whether to regulate Internet content, specifically political speech posted for free online....

Neighborhood Board elections will be held in April and May of this year. At stake are 437 seats on Oahu’s 33 Neighborhood Boards....

The state House investigation of a challenge to former speaker Calvin Say’s right to hold his seat in Hawaii’s House of Representatives has taken a new twist....

Incorporating the precautionary principle into public policy is itself “an activity [that] raises threats of harm to human health or the environment.”....

In the past nine years, Utah has decreased the number of homeless by 72 percent—largely by finding and building apartments where they can live, permanently, with no strings attached....

The 2015 Neighborhood Board elections will be held in April and May of this year. At stake are 437 seats on Oahu’s 33 Neighborhood Boards....

The fasted growing type of pass-through business is the S corporation....

The Hawaii state legislature committed three more waivers of notice....

Church attendance provides ties that bind members to their communities, and research shows that at the individual level, those who are most religious have higher well-being than those who are less religious....

Honolulu Ranks 42nd Overall (tied with Irving, TX): 77th for 'Income Diversity' and 101st for 'Educational Diversity'....

Refineries would have access to cheaper domestically-produced crude oil, which would lower the cost of gasoline, diesel and fuel oil. And there would be less need for imported oil....

Requires PUC to establish community-based renewable energy tariff or tariffs by no later than January 1, 2016....

...Healthcare.gov failed customers on the last hours of open enrollment this past weekend and now anyone who had problems signing up is getting an extension....

...HB631 will be granted a hearing tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18th....

...If HCR33 gets a hearing, it will first be in the House of Representatives Ocean, Marine Resources & Hawaiian Affairs committee chaired by Rep. Kaniela Ing....

...Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement will soon be requesting funding from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs....

Consumers should be especially aware of the difficulty that continues to exist in trying to get straight information....

...to make experimental drugs available to terminally ill patients who meet certain qualifications....

Opposition parties are rightfully tattletales. They are critics and watchdogs. Without this tattling, many things go on that the public does not know about....

...they would like the public to believe that they can offer more transparency to government by decreasing transparency....

...Expenses, including the $1.25M loan to IDG, would not be recovered....

...“coexist,” written on a wall using a Muslim crescent as the letter “C,” a Star of David as the letter “X,” and a Christian cross as a “T.”....

...Chinese threats to back several groups of Hawaiian independence activists....

On August 22, Neil Abercrombie sent a letter to Washington, D.C., urging the Federal Communications Commission to approve Comcast’s controversial proposal to merge with Time Warner....

...Native American reservations are among the poorest communities in the United States. Here’s how the government keeps Native Americans in poverty....

...‘In the business and trading world, people go to jail for such manipulations of data’….

Longtime Hawaii mediator and facilitator Peter Adler will coordinate the effort....

...While advocacy organizations may feel this strategy is useful, their fight has taken a heavy toll on those of us living in the war zones they orchestrated....

...a short autobiographical piece highlighting some of Parks’ early experiences with armed self-defense....

...the strengthening US dollar is driving down Hawaiian’s projected unit revenues by 3.5% to 6.5%....

The President’s budget has a proposed increase in the federal capital gains tax rate....

...In coming weeks, Hawaii’s Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision....

...A single filer earning Hawaii's median income of $61,408 can expect to pay $4,043.88 in state income taxes, the highest dollar amount of any state, or 6.59% of his income....