Entries for July 2013

July 8-18, 61 total locations throughout the country were tested, with data collected on how many people paid for the beverages....

Members of Congress have debated various versions of the DREAM Act more than 30 times over the past dozen years. They’ll do so again today....

The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall....

the proposal would eliminate Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)....

More than 100 island conservatives from across Oahu came together to hear Humphries....

• House: Employer Health Insurance Mandate Delay – Passage
• House: Individual Health Insurance Mandate Delay – Passage
• House: Education Law Overhaul – Passage

More than 50 years of control by big-government liberals and union bosses have left a once-great American city crippled and deteriorating....

Hawaii, which had been among the top ten states in previous studies, fell from 8th in 2008, to 11th in 2009, and now to 13th in 2012....

M.R.C. Greenwood will earn a little less than $25,000 a month after she resigns as University of Hawaii president...

A local reporter attempted to pin the Foundation down on whether or not it supported the handful of measures that had been thrown into the Honolulu City Council hopper ....

Campanella, president of National School Choice Week, will speak on "Let's Work Together: Building Coalitions to Expand School Choice"....

The AAFES building was recently transferred to OHA, and DOH intends to transfer 325 employees from the Environmental Health Administration – 260 from AAFES....

the RNC is putting its time and money into California AP communities....

Process begins to select new administrator....

...the first private space telescope to operate from the lunar surface, available to researchers, educators and the general public through the internet....

Obama yesterday gave a speech on Obamacare, trying to justify the fact that premiums continue to rise, violating his 2008 campaign promise to lower them by $2,500 per family per year....

Gas is not only cleaner than coal, but the United States has become the largest producer of natural gas....

Most primary care doctors are still waiting for the Medicaid pay raise that was scheduled to begin in January under the Affordable Care Act...

This company holds a BBB rating of “F” due in part to failing to answer 45 of 87 complaints against the business....

As of July 1,  Hawaii has a new, expanded production tax credit, which grants motion pictures, digital media and film productions, an income tax credit of 20-25 percent....

HLE for males at age 65 years varied from a low of 10.1 years in Mississippi to a high of 15.0 years in Hawaii....

Lowering health care costs is tougher than improving the quality of care, according to first-year results from a key pilot program ....

Fourteen months ago, President Barack Obama was a bigot. Now he is simply wrong. That's what you have to believe to agree with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion ....

Perez has faced questions about his misleading congressional testimony about his involvement in a quid pro quo deal with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota....

...we’ve set a course to provide even more low-cost clean energy to our customers....

On July 10, 2013, Mayor Kirk Caldwell proposed ten property tax bills. All ten bills passed the first reading at the Honolulu City Council....

capital improvement grants to Maui and Hawaii Counties as well as two local nonprofit organizations....

No hospitals in Hawaii are nationally ranked. Three hospitals met standards for strong performance within the state....

Now that the odds that ObamaCare will crash and burn have ticked up a notch or two, the words “single payer” are being heard more frequently....

Obamacare was supposed to go so well, we were told....

There were no other modifications to the existing $44.7-million contract except for its duration....

The first phase ... includes route restoration to Aiea Heights, Halawa Heights and Waikele Elementary School attendance areas....

Businesses don't just look at their own costs when deciding where to set up shop. They also look at the costs for their employees....

...removal of 108,000 non-permanent military and their families is “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory”....

The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in education, and autonomy rights of religious institutions....

Businesses should see this as a warning, as they are a convenient target for politicians ....

Eleven state House and Senate Democrats face complaints before the Democratic Party of Hawaii for proposing a constitutional amendment on traditional marriage last session....

"The unintended consequences of the ACA are severe...."

Grassroot Institute President Keli'i Akina interviews Hawaii Shippers Council President Michael Hansen....

Public Safety and Economic Development Committee hearing at Honolulu Hale, July 16th at 9:00 a.m....