Entries for February 2017

Farmers in SE Colorado started harvesting the plant in 2013, and farmers in Vermont began harvesting in 2014....

There are 20 bills currently on the table dealing with vacation rentals....

HB381 is scheduled on Wednesday, February 8, 9:00 a. m. at the capitol's room 429....

...give everybody a pay raise--by cutting taxes....

Candidate recruitment has begun and will end on February 17, 2017....

Is a 7% return on investment sustainable into the future? Another organization that studied the issue said that a more realistic rate of return would be the “risk-free” rate, which they calculated at 2.344%....

the Department of Taxation has been allowed to keep a full 10% of the rail surcharge for the costs of administering it, despite the fact that the law directs DOTAX to calculate how much is required for its management of the surcharge, then return the remainder to the rail project....

...the sea water air conditioning business can use the funds to pay management highly inflated salaries, purchase other business opportunities, build sea water air conditioning plants outside of the State, or for any other purpose....

New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.6 percent), Hawaii and Alaska are tied for second at 21.7 percent each....

Trannies used by the left as a driver of far-reaching social re-ordering....

Hawaii is trying to copy California, but look how that turned out!  ... tons of lawsuits ....

...an owner of an investment property in Honolulu worth less than half a million dollars can expect to see his (her) combined City and State property tax bill double....

“Within days of my call for an independent audit of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Rep. Kaniela Ing has announced plans to use the legislature to target me...."

Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....

"A person can be lying in their feces in a public stairwell and have an absolute constitutional right to do so, but the citizens walking over or through this public health hazard have no rights.”

Gov. David Ige today announced the appointment of First Circuit chief judge Derrick H.M. Chan to the Intermediate Court of Appeals....

Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income....

Considering how often we are promised "effective" policy or political plans that "work", there's surprisingly little effort spent measuring that effectiveness....

The new application deadline is March 4, 2017....

Senate Bill 548....

Hawaii’s State Government has unnecessarily profited from the Honolulu rail project....

Wednesday, January 25, marked the cutoff date for bill introduction in the Hawaii legislature....

Documents submitted by county police to the state's Department of the Attorney General show that every application by a private citizen for a concealed-carry permit was denied in 2016....

Trustee Ahu Isa was named acting OHA chair....

The Board has scheduled voting on Akina's proposed audit for the February 8th meeting of the Resource Management Committee, a committee of the entire Board....

"The Nov. 1 employment agreement is void and of no legal effect because it was not duly authorized and approved by the Board of Trustees."

The company had also placed discarded materials and equipment in a drainage ditch that is recognized as a state water body and protected by state and federal regulations....

Both bills could deprive individuals of their Second Amendment rights simply based on allegations, without a conviction....

The maximum penalty for each count is a $2,000.00 fine and up to one year in jail....

Grade F -- Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Funding....

Hawaii, Alaska and South Dakota, states with track records of high well-being, were the top states in the 2016 rankings....

It's always fun to watch one segment of socially conscious progressivism light into another....

“…the Managers shall have the power and authority on behalf of the Company to acquire or lease any real or personal property from any Person, whether or not such Person is directly or indirectly affiliated or connected with the Managers or any Member….“

OHA BoT meets Thurs Feb 2 at 9AM ....

...2016 data from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, Polaris's BeFree Textline, and communications....

This is how the state spends your taxpayer money....

...not only will the government tell faith-based pregnancy centers what they CANNOT say, they will now also tell them what they HAVE to say....

The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) begins its annual School Quality Survey (SQS) this week....

Tourists used to stay in designated tourism zones like Waikiki, but now they are everywhere....

...for a new term that will begin July 1, 2017 and run for four (4) years....