Entries for October 2018

...OHA Wants You To Watch The Left Hand So You Wonʻt See What The Right Hand Has Been Doing....

...Bill 42 break the promise made by the full City Council in 2006 that city funds or bonds would not be used to fund the rail....

...the day after Election Day, maybe nobody will notice....

...we are perfectly positioned to develop and model the behaviors we hope to see in our society-at-large....those who feel threatened should reach out for help from an appropriate campus office....

...2018’s States with the Most and Least Powerful Voters for the Midterms....

...visitor spending and arrivals are up sharply everywhere except the Big Island....

...The state depends on mostly low-sulfur fuel oil for about 70 percent of its power. In 2020, though, demand for that fuel is expected to surge, pushing up prices....

...Aloha State utilities cost $730.86 -- $202.90 more than #2 Alaska....

...a “blank check” for adding fees and increasing Oahu property taxes for rail construction and operations....

...FTA has exercised considerable patience in waiting for the City to identify and implement the method it would use to provide the $44 million, yet the process is still incomplete....

...it alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033....

...Hawai’i Free Press has obtained a copy of the Fiscal Year 2017-18 Office of Hawaiian Affairs check register in response to an open records request....

...their overall statistics are in the bottom 10th percentile of the rating scale for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions, employee satisfaction, primary care new patient wait time, and mental health continuity of care....

...a prior Hawaii Supreme Court case, Cieri v. Leticia Query Realty, 80 Haw. 54 (1995), said, “[R]eal estate is, particularly in Hawai`i, both scarce and expensive. As a result, the purchase of real estate or a residence likely is the largest ‘investment’ a person in Hawai`i may make in a lifetime.”....

...Proposals responding to RFP Part 1 will be accepted up to 2:00 p.m., Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST) on December 21, 2018....

...Ranking Property Taxes on the 2019 State Business Tax Climate Index....

...Contact your City Council member and strongly urge them to vote NO on all these gimmicks....

...Hero of Holocaust Deniers, Alfred De Zayas....

...to duck budgetary limits in the short run and spread their higher costs over the long run....

...the Star-Advertiser, which earns most of its revenue from ads, ran six convention related ads—all in opposition—beginning on October 14, 2018....