Entries for July 2013

A community pharmacist in the Northern Mariana Islands reports that his Medicare patients' closest preferred pharmacy is nine hours away by plane in Hawaii....

To pressure political decision-makers for more resources, SHARE has hosted mandatory camp-outs on council members’ lawns, at the mayor’s home and at the King County Administration Building....

...several roads will be crossing the historic National Register Hawaiian Railway, including directly through their historic rail yard....

One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg....

...pressure has been placed on our state legislators by the local and national gay rights lobby....

In celebration of Independence Day, we are rereading the Declaration of Independence....

American Islamists, like the American Stalinists before them, are unwilling to question the Muslim Brotherhood's ideology....

HB1149 (Relating to Wind Energy Facilities) requires a wind energy facility owner to be responsible for facility decommissioning and provide evidence of financial security....

Several hundred people visited the sale over this 2-day period to browse and purchase items and get acquainted with the HRP....

...if your population of patients is heavily inclined to Medicare and Medicaid then your reimbursements are low....

...mental health causes accounted for 5,180 hospital visits in Hawaii in 2011. That's well above the next highest cause, heart failure, with 2,954....

If the Alliance wants their report to become a basis for public policy making, we must insist that the Alliance report become part of the public domain....

testimony outlining the scientific, legal, and economic issues....

Two Hawaii high schools won major awards, while one Hawaii student took away a top award at the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center’s 12th Annual student Underwater Robotics Competition, held in Federal Way, Wash....

Biotechnology innovators rescued the Rainbow papaya in Hawaii from extinction. Now activists want to strangle this innovation....

all 32 charter schools and the State Public Charter School Commission...completed the execution of the first charter school performance contracts in the state’s history....

the Administration is delaying the employer mandate, which would force businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to provide government-approved insurance, until 2015....

both of the objectives mentioned by the US Energy Secretary are harder to achieve in Hawai‘i....

rising food and housing costs, a challenged public school system and few professional opportunities in a tourist-driven economy....

overcharged Medicare for a back procedure known as "kyphoplasty" using a fraudulent billing scheme first exposed by two whistleblowers....

The announcement follows the release last Thursday of a report by the National Parks Service (NPS) that was critical of the division’s efforts....

fingerprint, photograph and background checks for those bringing firearms into Hawaii....

Evacuation time, 10 hours....

Out of nowhere, all of sudden, OHA has an appetite for equity investments into high risk privately owned enterprises....

The truly “big news,” Slater said: Hawaii’s ranking at No. 49 for administrative costs per mile....

“It is a terrible time to be a journalist,” ...  Portnoy was referring to the Obama administration’s secret subpoenas for journalists’ phone and Internet records, as well as the US DoJ secret investigation into Associated Press and Fox News reporters....

Up to 5,000 new apartment and condominium units are being planned by the HCDA in Kakaako....

five states, on average, showed the smallest percentage premium increase by adding a teen driver to an existing auto policy: Hawaii — 18%, North Carolina — 59%....

At the bottom were Alaska, Rhode Island, Hawaii, California and New Jersey....

The number of veterans waiting more than a year to receive benefits jumped from 11,000 in 2009 to 245,000 by December 2012....

Justice Anthony Kennedy argued last week that the only reason Congress had for passing the Defense of Marriage Act was to “disparage,” “injure,” “degrade,” “demean,” and “humiliate” others....

"Lowering customers’ costs by accelerating development of low-cost, fast track utility-scale renewable energy projects...."

On Thursday, lawmakers in both the House and the Senate introduced a conservative alternative to No Child Left Behind (NCLB)....

The Governor also signed bills that extend the voluntary foster care age to 21 as well as keep keiki safe from a parent who has been convicted of a sexual assault....

The agreement will go into effect upon the settlement and ratification of union contracts by Hyatt associates in San Francisco, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and Chicago.....

• Senate: Pritzker Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Foxx Nomination – Confirmation
• Senate: Immigration Bill – Passage
• House: Offshore Drilling Bill – Passage

It’s July 4 week, which means Members of Congress are at home in their districts. As you head to your nearest town hall meeting, take these questions for your Representative....