The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) is receiving high praise from the U.S. Department of Education....

A judge on Hawaii's Big Island last week halted enforcement of part of Hawaii's flawed anti-GMO law....

The hearing—with decision making to follow--is set for March 20, 2014 at 9:35am in the State Capitol Auditorium....

For 2014, the penalty for not purchasing insurance will be either $95 or 1 percent of your annual income (whichever is greater)....

The downward forecast means that the state has now fewer projected revenues that could be used to fund some of the proposed spending initiatives....

...Executive Office on Early Learning Director GG Weisenfeld was joined by state legislators, preschoolers, community groups and business representatives....

Here are the tax highlights from the 2014 Legislative Session....

...leases which may be essential for Par Petroleum’s refinery operations....

The decision to cease operations in Hawaii follows significant growth in the Company’s flight operations on the mainland and was a strategic decision....

Every major poll shows small-business owners the most highly regarded group in America, and every elected official claims to be your friend....

The Hawai‘i Health Connector and Planned Parenthood of Hawai‘i today announced a joint effort....

The House and Senate will be in recess until March 24....

...the housing entities’ “profits paid to the Treasury in 2013 alone have resulted in federal spending and deficits being underreported by more than $100 billion....

Video March 17, 1959: Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill....

Because of the lack of transparency, it’s not totally clear who actually selected the three candidates from a field of nine....

This bill is still alive and it represents probably the largest TAX INCREASE still moving.....

In this policy brief, we identify the existing PURPA-based contracts in Hawai'i ....

$27,695,000 – Kamamalu Building Renovation, Oahu....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 14, 2014....

...based on the County’s efforts to restrict what Neldon Mamuad may say on his prominent “MAUIWatch” Facebook feed....

IRONY: PUC Commissioner Hermina Morita, adored by environmentalists, is facing fines for violating Hawaii conservation and zoning laws....

For more than a decade, the college has made it into the top 50 to 100 teacher preparation schools....

Along with a full-time load of law school courses, she’s a full-time realtor, and also spends one day a week on an externship with Senator Sam Slom’s Minority Research Office....

... McDermott says the payment of "stipends" to Hawaii teachers, for delivering SPLC's version of "Tolerance Training" breaks the law ....

Ukraine is an independent country. Its people voted overwhelmingly (90 percent in favor) to declare independence from Russia in 1991....

In Hawaii, Obamacare has disrupted a health-coverage system that had seen 98 percent of the population insured before the recession....

...Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico lawmakers say the U.S. ship build requirement of the Jones Act is a major contributor to the high cost of living in their locations....

...Judge A. Wallace Teshima’s truly final order in the case: the Order on Objection to Notice of Compliance, which coincidentally (or perhaps not) was issued on the same day (February 18, 2014) as the Ninth Circuit opinion....

...to continue efforts to turn around their persistently lowest-achieving schools....

It’s getting difficult to take any part of Obamacare seriously....

The Richardson Law School was ranked in 100th place among 146 law schools... Richardson was tied for 80th last year ....

Mr Zell controls 33 per cent of Par Petroleum, an oil and gas company operating in Hawaii....

...both the Governor and the House budget drafts are not in balance....

...work ethic concerns, lack of professionalism in the workplace, questions concerning the propriety of conduct toward women in professional contexts, and the ability to serve at the level of a Supreme Court Justice....

David Chang, the chairman of the Hawaii Republican Party, will step down to concentrate on military and business commitments....

Californians face the highest top marginal personal dividend tax rate in the United States of 33 percent, followed by taxpayers in New York (31.5 percent), and Hawaii (31.6 percent)....

...$64.7 million for various capital improvement projects (CIP) that will help stimulate....

More than 120 Makua (parents), kapuna (grandparents) and aunties and uncles on the rural island of Molokai joined together at the Kalanianaole Hall to hear the truth about Pono Choices....

The House of Representatives today approved HB1638 HD2, appropriating $161,137,650 for operating expenses and $50,590,000 for capital improvement costs of the Hawaii State Judiciary....

...At this point last year, the House had reduced the Governor’s budget by almost $600 million....

This is the first phase of a plan which would develop smart grids across Oahu, in Maui County and on Hawaii Island by 2018....

The administration had proposed new rules for seniors’ prescription drug plans in Medicare Part D....

The council projected zero percent growth for the fiscal year that ends in June, down from 3.3 percent....

Meanwhile: Get Medicaid? Lose Kupuna Care....