Dobelle spent “$8,000 for a four-night stay at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Bangkok; $883 from the upscale clothing store Louis Boston; $10,000 for tickets to shows at Tanglewood; more than $4,000 for limousine rides” and a total of $200,000....

...churches standing together number in the hundreds....

Wednesday August 21, 2013 9AM....

52 percent answered, “Yes,” to amending the Constitution, 43 percent said, “No, ” and 5 percent did not know or refused to answer....

Congress defunds mandatory spending on appropriations bills every year....

A hearing on the plan’s disclosure statement has been scheduled for Sept. 16, 2013....

Pastor Wayne Cordeiro responds to lawsuit against five churches, three of which are New Hope churches....

Dr. Keli’i Akina, Grassroot Institute president, asks former Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann about his controversial decision to empty sewage from a failed pump directly into the Ala Wai Canal....

...The U.S. Army published the record of decision to construct and operate a modern Infantry Platoon Battle Course and associated infrastructure to support current and future Army training requirements at Pōhakuloa Training Area....

For many years it was difficult for policymakers and administrators to conceive that services, like goods, could be purchased for resale....

...most major departments have reduced furlough days, or eliminated them altogether....

it looks like at least two of the three judges are very skeptical whether there was an appeal able final order in the case....

Judicial Selection Commission is accepting applications and nominations to fill the following anticipated judicial vacancy:  Associate Justice, Supreme Court

The state’s Data Book is the most comprehensive statistical book about Hawaii....

...final judgment in favor of the State of Hawaii and against nine Online Travel Companies selling Hawaii hotel rooms over the Internet....

More than 1,000 swiftly sign letter denouncing anti-GMO militants’ criminal act in Philippines....

"...swift action on the center was necessary since the senate will store papers for no longer than six months from the time the office is closed...."

57 percent—support defunding this unfair, unaffordable, unworkable law....

A new bipartisan, inter-branch working group will analyze the state’s juvenile justice system and develop data-driven policy recommendations for the 2014 Legislature....

In state reapportionment cases such as this, the Court has "appellate" jurisdiction to directly review decisions by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii....

results of the Hawaiʻi Police Department’s 2013 Community Satisfaction Survey and the police chief’s responses....

America has reached an education policy fork in the road....

ObamaCare's new insurance exchanges and expansion of Medicaid represent the building blocks....

...the Schatz and Hanabusa camps seek to outdo each other in hare-brained schemes to invent the Akaka Tribe.  And the Star-Advertiser editorial board has been suckered by the rhetoric....

...any law or set of laws that work against the public interest will give rise to chink-in-the-armor attacks by other, competing special interests....

...a refrigerated food warehouse in Honolulu occupied by Unicold Corp. and nine tenants....

Ninth Circuit Appeals Court hearing will last about one hour or less....

For decades, a specter has haunted the U.S. economy: surging gas prices....

...taxes are rising faster now under Obama than they have under any other president since WWII....

...the President has shown a distinct contempt for the legal limits on his power....

Closing date for applications is August 30, 2013....

the Judge ruled that the FTA and the City undertake the following....

During this last legislative session, Monsanto and associates sought to pass SB727....

...the case for defunding Obamacare....

The Akaka Tribe hasn’t even formed yet--but the expulsions have already begun....

...it is not the cost of the tax that adds to the price of locally grown products as much as it is the external factors such as the cost of land, labor, and regulatory compliance....

Other services include financial assistance with asset-building strategies, such as Individual Development Accounts, which are special savings accounts....

the prevalence of preschool obesity ranged from 9.2% to 17.9%....

Musto discusses with Grassroot Institute’s president Keli’i Akina the similarities and differences between Detroit and Hawaii in light of Detroit’s recent declaration of bankruptcy....

Just as in Hawaii, the Obamacare Exchanges in other states are not attracting insurance competitors....

...submit applications to the Department of Customer Services by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30....