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Hawaii's largest oil refinery is closing, precisely as we predicted it would....

...the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Hawaii legislature from substantively constraining the Governor’s choices in making a temporary appointment....

there are now more Republican minorities in the Senate (South Carolina’s Tim Scott, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Texas’s Ted Cruz) than Democrats (New Jersey’s Robert Menendez and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono).…

The mother claims that her daughters teacher and state administrators not only failed to investigate the abuse that occurred on and off school grounds, but conspired to cover it up, and then suspended her.

The deal also greatly relaxes the standards for companies to qualify to grab that tax credit.... 

When Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased taxes in return for spending cuts—cuts that never ultimately came—they did so at ratios of 1:3 and 1:2....

...a right to keep and bear arms for personal self-defense in the eighteenth century could not rationally have been limited to the home....

Angry comments were plastered on Abercrombie's Facebook page following the announcement of his decision Wednesday, with some predicting he would be a one-term governor....

Judge Tashima issued his final ruling yesterday and that allows us to at last appeal both this ruling and the others that he has made over the 19 months that this case has taken....

...this matter is remanded to the Federal Transit Administration....

“This does not make any logical/political sense, so therefore it must be personal.” --Washington Post

Obama spent most of the speech describing his own impressions of Inouye....

Inouye's chief of staff, Jennifer Sabas, says despite the disappointment, Inouye's office wishes Schatz "the best of luck."

"The lesson for everybody is you don't want your town to turn into this."

Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks is speaking January 6-9 at events throughout Hawaii.

When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar....

The notion that religion belongs in the realm of governance has its origins in the host culture, said Lilikala Kame‘eleihiwa, professor at the Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies....

The wind lobby is working overtime to convince Congress to pass an extension before the clock runs out on December 31st....

If Hanabusa is appointed senator, you can take the names of most of the folks listed above as possible candidates in the special election ....

Operation Southern Fist II near Shor Bak, Afghanistan....

“…we’re electing our next senator-for-life in this process….”

...Federal Aviation Administration issued several flight restrictions for Hawaii from 8 P.M. Friday through midnight on Sunday January 6....

Pacific Gas & Electric, the state's biggest utility, will pass on about $700 million in annual costs to people without solar systems ....

...parts are still arriving there and automobiles still being produced....

...the U.S. build section of the Act should be modified in certain trades of domestic shipping in order to support the U.S. Merchant Marine....

Hawaii had three major industries: tourism, the military, and Sen. Dan Inouye....

Boylan said the letter is Abercrombie's to release. But he confirmed it was Inouye's "last wish" for Hanabusa to succeed him.

Inouye died of respiratory complications at 5:01 p.m. EST (12:01 HST) Monday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, his office said....

Daniel Inouye has been hospitalized since Thursday after suffering a fainting spell before a vote in the U.S. Capitol....

Asians are America's fastest-growing immigrant community, and Asian voters constitute 2 percent to 7 percent of registered voters in half of the traditional 10 swing states....

“We have emptied the nation's hospitals, gutted state and local mental health programs, and turned involuntary treatment into a debate point instead of using it as a viable option to prevent tragedy...."

Tropical Cyclone Evan was stationary over Samoa for approximately 24 hours.... 

The loss of Senate Seniority will not completely sink Hawaii and Alaska’s economy, but it will definitely have a big impact....

The lawsuit claims the methodology and rules that were adopted and used did not comply with proper rulemaking....

...there's still lots of room for Mr Obama's administration to do more, and the US Travel Association has a great plan to further improve the situation....

"...it's certainly not unconstitutional for a public school orchestra or other singers to go to a religious venue like, in this case, New Hope Church and have a concert."

They do not want to protect fish. They only want to eliminate fishermen who stand in the way of their ocean based businesses....

Taxes on wages, dividends, interest, and partnership/sole proprietor income would exceed 50 percent only in Hawaii, California, and New York City….

In keeping with a long tradition in Hawaii that land use cases are litigated in court on procedural rather than substantive grounds, the opening skirmish in Sierra Club v. D. R. Horton was fought over whether one of the parties’ appeal in the case should be disallowed....

"...the aquarium take on Maui is literally a drop in the bucket, representing less than 2% of the total mortality of (Maui) reef animals that year...."

Services will be held at Waialae Baptist Church on Sat., Dec. 15....

...providing safe and reliable utility service at a reasonable cost, through the development of Resource Plans and Scenarios....

Hounded by Luddites, the Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai County Councils have voted to demand GMO food labeling but in California the forces of ignorance and superstition were beaten back as Prop 37 GMO labeling was defeated 53-47% on the November ballot....

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...she has not read a Senate Special Committee on Accountability report that was released on Monday, because she has been traveling to the neighbor islands for community meetings....

Souki and Minority Leader Aaron Ling Johanson "have pledged to begin work immediately."

...because Hawaii link its system to the federal revenue code by adopting various federal definitions of income or various federal deductions and credits....

Consumers, Contractors, And Tax Practitioners Should Be Familiar With Ramifications of Announcement 2012-14 On 2012-"Installed" Systems....

FULL TEXT -- Senate Committee Documents Released Today

...190 soldiers from the Hawaii Army Guard’s 29th Infantry Brigade Combat Team....