Entries for October 2016

...between 2005 and 2012, the illegal operation, established by Allen Yamada and led by Felix Tom, placed gross wagers totaling over approximately $670 million through internet websites....

The TMT International Observatory Board of Governors met last week to discuss the progress of TMT in Hawaii and to consider potential alternate sites....

Is Hawaii Too Big to Fail?

Candidate Answers to the HFF Questionnaire ....

...The first public hearing on the proposal will be Nov. 7 at noon at the Pier 11 terminal at Honolulu Harbor....

In 2016, Hawaii ranked 40th among the states with an OPEB funding ratio of 29.2 percent....

...holdovers from the legacy economy -- the owners of city-issued taxi medallions and permits -- did not have their property taken when the city allowed ridesharing services to operate....

Back in June, it looked like the hike would be 16 percent....

In Hawaii, this can be seen most starkly with the advent of the "shared" economy....

Expenditures on gasoline and other energy goods declined 27.4 percent in Hawaii....

...submitting false applications for federal clean energy grants to which they were not entitled....

...IUCN, Other Conventions Contributed to Strong Showing in September....

...job search, job referrals, vocational training, and work-based learning opportunities to individuals with disabilities....

Mr. Francis states he never consented to appear in any paid Caldwell political ad - an action that would be a clear breach of basic journalistic ethics....

...Washington could find itself strategically outflanked....

... at a cost of $287,500 per unit ....

Glen Nohara gave $12K to Caldwell and a total of $102K mostly to the usual list of Democrat incumbent candidates...

The finalists will be participating in a final round of interviews on the Mānoa campus, November 14 and 15 and November 21 and 22, respectively....

OHA is losing $20M a year on revenue of $31.4M... How much longer will they stay in 'business'? ....

...premiums have continued to grow by 5 percent per year or more in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, and Utah....

The Grassroot Institute argues that this is not about the right to collect taxes, but rather a matter of mis-allocation of the funds....

Caldwell actually paid for an ad that highlighted how he is owned by the establishment and totally controlled the old-boy network....

...propose installing a city-wide surveillance system....

...so E Oahu residents are against sweeps....

...The HSTA put Ige in office.  In return he is going to get rid of Matayoshi and the tests....

...2015 Science assessment by the National Assessment Governing Board and the National Center for Education Statistics....

Robert Lindsey’s Been Keeping A Secret From You For Years....

Federal law protects against such crimes as intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input....

...Public Hearings November 2 and 3, 2016....

...remediation rates (retaking high-school-level coursework) among students attending the University of Hawaii System are down 8 points in math and 6 points in English in three years....

In the film, a woman was pregnant, homeless, and already caring for other children. However, I can’t remember any mention of a father....

...the project will expand by adding 6 modified shipping containers to accommodate up to 21 additional clients....

Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces (also called exchanges) are expected to increase faster in 2017 than in previous years....

The concept of Complete Streets is to ensure that our streets and public spaces serve everyone’s transportation needs (unless) they are traveling by car....

On September 15, the Commission contacted Respondent Young to inquire about the events described in the Hawai’i Free Press article....

...MACRA imported all the worst elements of Obamacare into Medicare....

Mrs. Sandefur will be speaking on Oahu and Maui on October 24th and 31st respectively....

One ballot will contain 20 Honolulu Charter Amendment questions....

...free workshop, offered at numerous locations on Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and the Big Island this fall....

463 of the 479 active primary care practices in Oahu were contacted between 2/11/16 and 8/26/16 and questioned about current acceptance of new patients....

...OHA Trustee Haunanai Apoliona is a Director of Bank of Hawaii and BoH does substantial business with OHA....

...Four large power plants could produce as much electricity as offshore wind turbines placed side by side along the entire Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida....

...the tax credit program boosted California’s economy only minimally, if at all....

...HNN asked about my three decades old criminal history but didn’t bother to ask Representative LoPresti about his far more recent arrest for drunk driving....

...Only 8 states have RETAIL rates higher than the 0.145 per kwh WHOLESALE rate HECO is touting here as if it were a good price for erratic electricity....

...if a portion of Caldwell’s “beneficial ownership” in the Bank may have been in the form of stock options, such options are a “thing of value” and should be disclosed under both Federal tax and City ethics rules....

...Judge Katherine G. Leonard of the Intermediate Court of Appeals served as Acting Chief Justice for the Hawaii Supreme Court in this case. All five of the regular justices of the Hawaii Supreme Court had recused themselves....