Entries for June 2015

HHIC Insights Medicare report illustrates the impact of the numerous Medicare payment cuts to Hawaii’s hospitals and how it would be potentially exacerbated by additional cuts proposed by Congress....

Our data set includes 23 key metrics, such as age, gender and income as well as household makeup and housing tenure....

It's a fine balance, and until the Hawaii Supreme Court's recent decision in Kellberg v. Yuen, and the Intermediate Court of Appeals' decision in Hoku Lele, LLC v. City and County of Honolulu....

Public hearings will be held in American Samoa, CNMI and Guam on July 6, 13 and 15, respectively....

...new leaders are appointed to key state offices....

...TMT International Observatory Board has decided to move ahead to restart the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the morning of Wednesday, June 24....

...we don’t want to inflict a disproportionate amount of pain on our friends....

...it is OK that their plan would gut the tourism industry because it would also drive Hawaii's cost of living up to the point where residents could no longer afford to leave....

... two draft replies--one labeled "the truth" and the other labeled "option 2" ....

A prominent European politician has urged the region's shipowners to get behind important trade talks....

...the median district in states like Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is more than 70% to 30% for the majority party....

...A total of 1,217 homeless refusing shelter have been added to Hawaii's homeless population in the last two years....

Recently increased enforcement by the Commission has made the ethics code come to life and reach beyond the mere platitudes it was in the past when enforcement of the code was a rare exception....

...Hawaii’s employees earn 9 percent more than those in the private sector—the 3rd highest wages and salaries ratio in the country....

Remember This?  "Rail Construction Will Create about 10,000 jobs Each Year" ....

...ugly comments happily hoping to send people who work on these farms back to where they came from....

This is far more than a trade agreement, but creates a self-governing and self-perpetuating Commission with extraordinary implications for American workers and American sovereignty....

...the Board itself failed to properly disclose that the “opt-out” policy was once again being considered....

The median income for families (dad present) with kids younger than 18 adjusted for cost of living is two times higher in the District of Columbia than in Hawaii....

...nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identify as multiracial....

Kevin Jennings, founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)....

Clare Connors, David Louie, and Jill Otake....

2015’s Strictest and Most Lenient States on DUI....

Some play video games in homes littered with pizza crusts and empty Mountain Dew cans. Others watch daytime soap operas....

"...only if the student’s parent or legal guardian provides prior consent.…"

WalletHub compared each of the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 30 key metrics. Our data set ranges from crime rates to school system rankings to housing costs....

• Senate: Fiscal 2016 Defense Authorization -- Cloture
• House: CFTC Operations – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Transportation-HUD Appropriations
• House: Police Body Cameras – Passage
• House: Meat Labeling – Passage
• House: Fiscal 2016 Defense Appropriations – Passage

Laurie Temple Field, a former associate of the ACLU and now a representative for Hawaii Planned Parenthood, lost no time....

The idea that one’s sex is a feeling, not a fact, has permeated our culture and is leaving casualties in its wake....

...many common vegetables contain nicotine....

“TMT and our partners support the Governor’s vision. In the past two weeks, Caltech and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences have pledged their support...."

...retirement in Hawaii would require $65,822 annually in disposable income, and (given Hawaii’s relatively high income taxes) pre-tax income of $91,451....

...it does not specify any penalties. It also outlines broad reasons the requirements may be waived....

Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S....

This aquifer is also the same one that BWS uses to provide water to residents from Moanalua to Hawaii Kai....

...federal subsidies to wind power do not create investment out of nowhere; they simply distort the relative cost of producing wind energy, shifting investments from other sectors of the economy to wind projects....

Hawaii collects $2,088 per person....

The applicant is requesting an ITP to authorize take of one threatened and six endangered species....

...analysis reveals those who love their job enough to tweet about it in the United States live in the Western half of the country....

...Newsflash: The Land is Moving too....

...highlights of the media coverage of the decision....

These claims are separate and apart from matters being addressed in Arnold’s pending grievance....

Many fossil fuel producers will benefit, while the poor—and the economy—will suffer....

The Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act now goes to the Senate....

...Secretly Scheming For Three Years To Turn Hawaiians Into A US Tribe....

...driving conditions for teens in the 50 U.S. states based on 16 key metrics....

"It must always be remembered how cost-effectiveness works in the public sector: the cost is the benefit."

...one more organ of old-boy power is dissolved into corporate America....

"...Calvin K.Y. Say is the uncle of one of my current law clerk’s spouse, and that another law clerk, prior to joining my staff, worked on a campaign involving Respondent Calvin K.Y. Say...." -- Rectenwald