Entries for July 2013

For this list, we looked at six pieces of criteria....

“Any action that weakens the protectionism of the Jones Act will ultimately be to the long-term benefit of U.S. shipping.”

The court concluded that the Charter amendment adopted by the voters was, in reality, a prohibited zoning initiative....

DLNR will hold a public information meeting from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, July 18....

Recent Congressional Votes

• Senate: Student Loan Interest Rates – Cloture
• House: Energy-Water Appropriations – Passage
• House: Farm Bill – Passage

When Harry Reid gets frustrated, he threatens to change the Senate’s rules to get his way....

I was once a libertarian activist....

News of the very generous pay increases granted to police officers sent shock waves through the ranks of city and county officials across the state generating calls for “revenue enhancements” or tax increases....

If OHA were more skilled at 'due diligence' it would have spotted the million dollar loan IDG's New Zealand partner wrote off last year....

Written comments must be received by July 22, 2013 or postmarked by that date....

Hawaii’s federal judges say the proposed rail line passes too close to the Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Federal Building...

We always believed that the issues in this case merited resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court....

an exclusive luncheon fundraiser for the Hawaii Republican Assembly's campaign to 'conservatize' Hawaii....

...the impending total depletion of its trust fund....

Schatz brought on many of the national consultants who helped Hirono win her seat last November....

Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys say clerks need to enforce law, not bound by district court injunction....

...some jurisdictions did not accurately define compact migrants, account for federal funding that supplemented local expenditures, or include revenue received from compact migrants....

Obama backed the administration of Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was just ousted by the protesters and the military....

Judge Susan Oki Mollway's letter to HART and federal transit officials....

This is an excellent summary of our appeal and why the District Court's decision was in error....

Full text of today's ruling....

...for causing or permitting visible fugitive dust to become airborne....

It still goes out of its way to tax Christmas trees....

Some of the gifts are valued at up to $1,000....

identify changeable policies so that Hawaii can move off the bottom of this list....

Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sent a letter to JPAC’s commander, demanding information about that internal report and the military’s efforts to suppress it....

In 1979, around the time that imprisonment rates began their sharp uptick, 314,000 people sat behind bars in the United States. As of mid-2013, that number stood at about 2 million....

a thick new blanket of North American oil cushioning the markets....

DOH has acquired an adequate supply of purified protein derivative solution used for tuberculosis skin testing and will resume providing the test....

to hire 21 additional workers, who will assist 21,516 people with enrollment into affordable health insurance coverage....

Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate....

The Governor this year signed a total of 269 bills into law, and Lt. Gov. Shan S. Tsutsui this afternoon will sign seven as Acting Governor. Twelve other measures will become law without signature....

DLNR is seeking new projects for its Hawai‘i Forest Legacy Program....

Christians across the country are increasingly becoming targets because of their "intolerance."  In Hawaii, it is already happening and it could get worse....

it is difficult to argue against empirical evidence....

Tsutsui will sign the following bills passed by the 2013 Hawaii State Legislature....

Dr. Christopher B. Happy has been selected as Honolulu’s Chief Medical Examiner....

turning to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could become a road map for cash-strapped cities....

Even Democrats have admitted the law has turned into a massive “train wreck,” with delays, glitches, and problems aplenty....

"The Director continues to assert that this is a priority for the Bureau, but at this point, there's little evidence to suggest that this probe is on the fast track."

On April 12, 2013, OHA Trustees were surprised to learn that the loan we got from Bank of Hawaii was not a secured loan and that it had to be backed by Trust dollars....

On this date 115 years ago, the U.S. began absorbing an island paradise....

...some of the ways the highway user is tapped to fund what is obliquely related to the construction, repair and maintenance of state and county roads....

...prevent Hawaii residents from having their private medical information used as a marketing tool by drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), some of which also operate mail-order pharmacies....