Entries for May 2022

... red states effectively lost at least three seats in Congress while blue states effectively gained them ....

... Anti-Vaxxer Shannon Matson Campaigns for Party Chair, Loses ....

... Hawaii’s gross domestic product is down by 4.43% since 2019, yet even as the economy suffers, all four counties seem determined to spend like crazy ....

... the good, the bad and the ugly ....

... Fat chance of the Feds giving us that much now ....

... Have you been renting out a room to help pay your mortgage? ....

... The Hawaii State Department of Education is paying tens of millions of dollars to feed Hawaiian school children due to a flaw in the funding method used by the federal government ....

... to ensure that children continue to receive balanced nutrition during the summer break ....

... bills introduced and votes cast in Congress ....

... overtime cards, which document overtime requests and approval for payroll purposes, are managed manually, increasing the risk for human error, abuse, and fraud ....

... It just so happens that these repairs are also the repairs needs to continue using the facility. What a coincidence! ....

...  a Kahele representative said Kahele had a meeting with kalo farmers on Maui and could not attend ....

... sponsored by Hawaii Christian Coalition ....

... 818,268 visitors in April 2022, representing a 96.3 percent recovery from April 2019 and the highest recovery rate since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hawaii. Visitors spent $1.6 billion, an increase of 21 percent compared to the $1.32 billion reported for April 2019 ....

... Hawaii is among the first states in the nation to be approved for participation ....

... Eighty-seven percent of over 2,000 survey participants reported at least one new or worsening health symptom following exposure to JP-5 jet fuel in the Navy water system. Thirty-seven percent sought medical care and 17 people reported being hospitalized overnight ....

... By 2021, the team relied on the locally tailored model developed by UH Mānoa Professor Monique Chyba ....

... Brun, who was indicted with 11 other defendants on drug trafficking offenses, an assault on a federal law enforcement officer, witness tampering, evidence tampering, and firearm offenses, pled guilty to ten of those charges ....

... Recktenwald today appointed two individuals to fill judicial positions in the District Family Court of the Third Circuit and one individual to fill a position in the District Court of the Fifth Circuit ....