Entries for January 2016

"Public-Private partnerships are really hard."

The estimated cost of the removal is $3.5 million. The additional $16.5 million assigned to the project will be returned to the Harbors Division for use in other improvement projects....

...construction cost escalation for Oahu for years 2013 and 2014 has averaged 10.3% per year....

...“We are happy" -- Burning Anti-Cane Activists ....

UH now has 30 days to state its case and submit relevant documents and the NCAA Committee on Infractions will then have 30 days to respond. A final decision is expected by early summer 2016....

Whatʻs In It For Them If TMT Decides To Stay....

The nine teachers who are suing their union in Friedrichs v. CTA are doing so because they believe that many union stances taken in collective bargaining are bad for public schoolteachers and bad for the children they teach....

The rally supported what organizers claimed was the constitutional “right to travel” with no driver’s license, registration, license plates, safety stickers and motor vehicle insurance....

...Anti-GMO activists cheer New Years Eve arson attack against Waialua farmer....

Under the CPP, states have been given the choice of meeting either a rate- or mass-based goal for their existing fleet of power plants....

“We are not doing enough” to educate Samoan students in math and science....

Alaska, Louisiana Have Highest Gun Death Rates in the Nation; Hawaii, Rhode Island Have Lowest....

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration volunteers, who shot the video, called police and told them he was "sitting next to the seal and possibly was harassing the seal,"....

Hawaii was one of fifteen states that were grandfathered....

"...it seems the Aha dictatorship thus far has no seeming means of keeping participants safe from stalkers and psychos...."

Be sure to thank the frackers ....

Three IT systems that were old, unreliable and costly to maintain were replaced with modern scanning and mail-opening equipment....

...ensure a “fair rate of return” in establishing sublease rent....