Entries for January 2021

... a perpetual emergency status ....

... ADC’s emphasis on land acquisition has made it a costly, disorganized and ineffective program while the state and counties have failed to fulfill their promises to landowners participating in the IAL program ....

... UHERO second quarterly survey of rental property owners and managers ....

... but he can get back to being a shyster in 5 years ....

... Hawaii vs Alaska Safest COVID States ....

... gas prices to rush-hour traffic congestion to road quality ....

... In December 2020, Hawai‘i hotels statewide reported substantial declines in revenue per available room ....

... DHHL last conducted a Beneficiary Survey in 2014, with previous studies conducted in 2008, 2003, and 1995 ....

... Senator Laura Acasio was appointed by Governor Ige to the Senate District 1 seat ....

... All that was required of Trump was to show up at the Imperial Hotel ballroom in Tokyo to gladhand a bunch of Japanese buyers and have his photo taken with them under the US and Japanese flags....

... Quick Connect will allow some new systems to be built and activated faster ....

... The public comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the New Aloha Stadium Entertainment District (NASED) project concludes on Feb. 8 ....

... OHA’s budget bill requests $3,037,879 in state general fund appropriations each fiscal year ....

... The comment period ends on February 19, 2021 .... 

... International Socialists taking over now that the National Socialists have been exiled to Florida.  Too bad you have only these two choices, eh?  How did you get yourself into that trap? ....

... He reintroduces his Safe and Quiet Skies Act targeting increasing safety and community disruption concerns from tour helicopters and small aircraft operations ....

...This represents about $123 million dollars that we can now restore to our public-school classrooms....

... Previously, Moku served as the director of Honolulu’s Department of Community Services under Mayor Peter Carlisle and is also a former director of the Home Ownership Assistance Program at DHHL ....

... Politics is a circle.  The extreme left and extreme right are the same ....

... Martin has been a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Maui County Department of the Prosecuting Attorney since February 2015 .... 

... We’ve learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile. And at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed ....

... As a service to our readers we are providing a line-by-line debunk of HSTA's argument in parenthesis below ....

... It pays to be able to put the governor in office.  I'm sure the 6,000 people on Maui will understand how this works ....

... The post caused a stir among some lawmakers during the Legislature’s opening day ....

... Honolulu is the only city where mortgages have taken up more than 40% of homeowners’ incomes in 2010, as well as in 2015 and 2020 ....

... 33 Hours worked to afford median rent for nurses -- Hawaii ranks 43rd ....

... Aloha State Parents Find New Ways to Celebrate Learning, Support Opportunity for All ....

... Hawaii's Legislature needs to step in to prevent the extensive exercise of unchecked unilateral power, says the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii ....

... Nickie Lum Davis has retained Potomac International Partners to push for a grant of clemency. One of the lobbyists on the account is Mark Cowan, who was a member of Trump’s transition team ....

... Hawaii Cost of Living Index is 196.3--the US Average is 100 ....

... The batteries will die in a few years.  Moving the smokestack does not equal 'emission free' ....

... gaps between black people and white people ....

... potential monetary losses — including both the lifetime and annual cost of a cigarette pack per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs .... 

... Approximately 800 American Samoan residents are anticipated to transit through Honolulu, be tested for COVID-19, and quarantine en route to their previously shuttered island home ....

... continue to stand with you for FAITH, FAMILY and religious FREEDOM ....

... “the carbon tax” is most likely the “barrel tax” ....

... bills introduced and votes in Congress for week ending Jan 16, 2021 ....

... 2020 STARTED OUT like any other year, but ....

... 2021 Key Dates in Legislative Calendar ....

... 2012: 'Critical habitat': Feds Seize Control of 67 square miles on Oahu; Maui Next ....

... from 2011 to 2018, Winslett paid over $100,000 worth of bribes to two U.S. Army contracting officials who worked at the Range at Schofield Barracks, in order to steer federal contracts worth at least $19 million  ....

... that $2 billion in “savings” is going to end up costing the taxpayers almost four times as much in the long term ....

... bribes from a drug trafficker to obtain United States Postal Service cluster box units ....

"...ADC has done little – if anything – to facilitate the development of agricultural enterprises...the State can no longer wait for ADC to figure out what it is, what it is supposed to do, and how it is supposed to do it...."

... His proposals would amend the century-old Jones Act to combat monopolies in domestic shipping ....

... until the aquarium fishing industry has completed the Chapter 343 environmental review process ....

...Of its 117 total traffic deaths in 2018, 45 traffic deaths in Hawaii came when one or more of the drivers had been drinking....

... Friday, Jan. 15, 2021 from noon to 1:15 p.m. ....

... VIDEO: The Knights of Aloha protesting at the Hawaii State Capitol Friday January 15, 2021 ....

"President’s incitement of January 6th’s violent assault on the U.S. Capitol violated his oath to defend the Constitution and cannot go unanswered" -- Rep Ed Case