Entries for August 2021

... if you implement a policy that segregates the vaccinated with the unvaccinated, we're inadvertently incentivizing the unvaccinated community to gather and spread COVID within their own communities ....

... This affects individuals receiving Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC). ...

... Honolulu rail project get a portion of the revenues? ....

... City launches “Safe Access O‘ahu” program to help protect businesses, employees and customers ....

... Visitor spending decreased compared to $1.70 billion (-6.8%) in July 2019....

... The order of summary judgment will not take effect until 15 September 2021 ....

... Compared with July 2019, RevPAR was 16.9 percent higher, driven by increased ADR (+21.0%) which offset slightly lower occupancy (-2.9 percentage points) ....

... “Yes,” Weinberg said. “You are going to mess up Hawaii’s finances.” ....

... One fundamental assumption that has been made over the years by our lawmakers is that if you enact a tax, money will be raised.  What if that weren’t true? ....

... Hawaiʻi college graduates are among the least likely to leave school with debt. And for those who do graduate with debt, they owe among the least in the country ....

... Dr. Keawe Kaholokula of the John A. Burns School of Medicine addresses 10 fears and rumors about the vaccine currently circulating in our community ....

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

... Here is the Supreme Court majority's explanation of why the moratorium is illegal ....

... Campbell HS is #1 followed by Waipahu, Kapolei, and Farrington ....

... Judge McCullen has served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney with the Honolulu Department of the Prosecuting Attorney for a combined 11 years in the Appellate Division ....

... Would the Hawaiian Kingdom Compel Everyone to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine? The Answer is “YES” ....

... The other shoe -- perhaps the most predictable shoe drop in legal history -- dropped yesterday ....

... the affordable housing credits paid to Dowling are worth $1.4M to $20.6M over and above DHHL’s $10.8M parcel valuation ....

... DBEDT revised its economic growth projection for 2021 to 2.7 percent, down from  3.5 percent ....

... I have to laugh because they mocked me as being sheep but, uh, they are the ones taking enough of a toxic substance made for sheep! ....