Entries for January 2013

Tesoro announced they were shutting down their refinery .... The question on everyone’s mind—what does this mean for Hawai‘i?

Among the major challenges identified by the USDOE was the delayed principal evaluation implementation.

Global Metro Monitor update of the Brookings Institution. Yet another non-flattering economic statistic....

Last week the State Department of Education finally released the criteria for principal evaluations....

Instead of cutting taxes on the poor, Abercrombie proposes to extract more taxes from them by hiking the minimum wage.

“Our unilateral president must take his unilateral medicine.” 

NRA-ILA is pleased to report that an attempt to repeal newly-enacted protections for National Rifle Association instructors has failed....

The type of ship needed to transport LNG is a highly-specialized kind of tanker ship known as an LNG Carrier, none of which have been built in the U.S. since the mid-1970’s....

• Saturday, February 2 at 9:30 a.m. Hawaii Time
• Wednesday, February 6 at 7 p.m. Hawaii Time

The Heritage Foundation has released the following statement....

...liberals are increasingly shedding their humanist pretentions and showing (their true) misanthropic nature....

The average person who voluntarily surrenders a firearm to police is not a criminal and the firearms surrendered are not those misused by criminals....

"I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonising an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment."

"Hilo Medical Center, the other thirteen HHSC facilities, and hospitals nationwide are being pushed to the brink of collapse, given the new health reform law changes."

In October 2012, HECO again raised the limit to 75 percent of minimum load (which roughly translates to 23 percent of peak....HECO's proactive approach, fundamentally, aims to move beyond arbitrary limits....

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is likely to be confirmed today as the next Secretary of State after sailing through a Senate hearing last week. What does this mean for America and its foreign policy?

Comparison: Highest RETAIL electric rate on Mainland -- Connecticut at 19.5 cents per kwh

...the good professor labeled the record of the 1993-2010 Hawaii Supreme Court on property issues "appalling," so it should come as no surprise that two of the beneficiaries of those rulings have now rallied to that court's defense....

As part of the settlement, HELCO will withdraw its request for a 4.2 percent or $19.8 million rate increase in 2013. HECO and its subsidiaries will also reduce by $40 million the amount being sought for improvements to two major projects....

• Senate: Temporary Rules Changes
• Senate: Permanent Rules Changes
• House: Short-Term Suspension of Debt Limit – Final Passage