Entries for November 2011

Instead of 15% of peak, the limit is now 50% of noontime usage....

Total expenditures by visitors who came to Hawaii in the first 10 months of 2011 grew 14.8 percent, compared to the same period in 2010, to $10.3 billion....

Republicans have landed prominent women candidates too, with former Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle and former New Mexico Rep. Heather Wilson best positioned for victory next year....

This judgment is repeated so often and so forcefully that you will almost never see it questioned. And yet it may not be true....

In Hermann Hesse’s final novel, The Glass Bead Game, the reader encounters a fanciful society in which the best and brightest citizens are groomed to become masters of an exceedingly complex game....

American was forced into bankruptcy when the airline pilots union refused to budge on its demands for massive signing bonuses and wage increases.

ROME: Finmeccanica: signed a contract worth USD 1,334 million for Honolulu driverless metro.

Hawaiian Telcom announced today that, through the efforts of a federal mediator working with bargaining representatives of both the Company and the Union, the Company made an updated collective bargaining agreement offer to the Union....

The State Commission on Water Resource Management is seeking nominations for two positions on the Commission....

"... the seals are doing better in the main islands without a habitat designation .... "

Treasury and municipal bonds rallied Thursday as fears of European contagion spread ... Yields on the Hawaii bond deal were lowered as much as nine basis points, compared with levels offered earlier in the morning....

...perhaps this will mark the rise of the paleolibs?

The government says it would cost automakers $8.5 billion per year to comply, which means a spike in sticker prices of at least $2,000 to $2,800, according to official projections....

"The movement is inspired by popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and aims to expose how the richest 1 percent of people are writing the rules of an unfair global economy that is foreclosing on our future."

There has been an ongoing debate about the depth of anti-Semitism within the OWS movement....

...states are already responding to Obamacare’s “maintenance of effort” clause and the anticipated 2014 expansion by cutting services....

• UH Richardson Law School- Classroom 1
• Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:45am-1:15pm
• Free Lunch & Speaker, Hon. Peter N. Kirsanow

At its December 9, 2011 conference, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review Corboy v. Louie....

Below are the dates that the Postal Service suggests Hawaii residents mail their letters, cards and packages to give them the best chances of reaching their destinations by Christmas.... 

The problem is not the size or scope of U.S. support, the problems lay within the ways that money is structured, allocated and managed....