...Tesoro indicated that domestic supply was not competitive, in part due to Jones Act restrictions....

"Congress needs to follow up on this presidential trip by passing trade promotion authority to conclude a free-trade agreement across Asia and the Pacific”

Shippers are increasingly moving crude to a refinery in Canada....

...the budget specifically appropriates $300,000 of general obligation bond funds toward design ... another $2 million is appropriated for the actual construction of an air conditioning system....

...$6M of added work due to unidentified utilities, design changes and added work scope....

The budget, which provides $6.189 billion in general funds and $12.147 billion in all means of financing, was characterized by House Finance Chair Sylvia Luke as measured and prudent....

VIDEO: House Republicans speak out on Hawaii State Budget during final debate today....

Despite claims to the contrary, relatively few Hawaiians would benefit from the increase....

Do conservatives still want to repeal Obamacare?  It would seem the media don’t want you to think so....

...what if America had never been founded?...

Super PACs and special interest groups look set to have the opportunity to hijack all future elections in Hawaii if HB2590 CD1 passes....

The Hawaii Refinery Task Force has completed its year-long study of the potential impacts of refinery closures....

...Design funds for plans to modernize the case management system for the Social Services Division. The current system is approximately 25-years-old....

Ige said he would vote against confirming Brian Tamamototo permanently to fill a small-business seat of the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA)....

...how your hard-earned money helps subsidize loans for people in other countries....

• Kihei Maui May 6
• Kona & Hilo May 7
• Honolulu May 8

We continue to advocate for the State of Hawai‘i to remove Basic Health Hawai‘i from Hawai‘i Administrative Rules and repeal Haw. Admin. Rules Chapter 17-1722.3....

At OHA's Kana'iolowalu Roll Meetings the message from the people comes across loud and clear....

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 38,978 adults aged 18 years or older from 6 states: Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsin....

Kobayashi Group is in partnership with the Howard Hughes Corporation to build ONE Ala Moana, the ultra-luxury condominium being built above Nordstrom’s parking in Ala Moana....

...bills up for final reading in the Senate and House on Tuesday, April 29....

A quick glance at the table below, and you see how powerful the money committees are....

...may the challenger institute a quo warranto lawsuit in state circuit court?

...the rebirth of an issue that should have been finished once and for all with the Supreme Court decision in Rice v. Cayetano....

...without registered voters who take the time to participate in every election opportunity, we will continue to be ruled by tiny minority who do not share our values....

"It would be an opportunity for us to within the existing resources acquire the easement." --Ige

“...investment in enhanced biotechnology is an essential component of the solution to some of our planet’s most pressing agricultural problems” -- President Barack Obama 

...SB3122 conference hearing continues Friday, April 25, 2014 at 11:30am in conference room 312 (State Capitol)....

Biofuels made with corn residue actually release 7 percent more greenhouse gas....

A new Rasmussen poll shows that 61 percent of the American public favor building the pipeline....

Hawaii has 144 structurally deficient bridges....

A student ordered by administrators to stop handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution at the University of Hawaii at Hilo has filed a lawsuit today in federal court....

Not surprisingly, they almost always report that funds spent on advertising translate into tourist spending and tax revenues many multiples of the original outlay....

Charlie Cook, a respected political journalist, ranks campaigns across the country.  On April 17th, he moved his ranking of our race....

The terms will begin on July 1, 2014 and last for three years....

Many well-known people such as Governors Lingle and Abercrombie, Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Blue Planet Foundation's Henk Rogers, and Hawaii's only billionaire Pierre Omidyar have Sopogy egg on their face....

A new opinion poll sponsored by solar scammers argues that Hawaiian Electric (HECO) has a significant public image problem....

...Washington cronies dole out special treatment to certain companies....

...a windfall gain for the typically wealthy households able to take advantage of the situation....

...this finding would not hold if fuel prices were substantively lower than current levels, either from falling prices or fuel-switching to lower cost products....

Establishes a rewards and recognition program (RRP) for the last two years (sort of)....

Graduation dates begin in May 18 with the ceremonies for Pahoa on Hawaii Island....

...the lack of meaningful competition between political parties can be stifling to new ideas, regardless of the underlying ideology....

...there are only 13 ships that can legally move oil between U.S. ports, and these ships are “booked solid”....