Entries for 'Andrew Walden'

...bills up for final reading in the Senate and House on Tuesday, April 29....

Last November, this writer filled out an incomplete application for an individual marketplace plan on the Health Connector....

To see what coverage of the delegation looks like in a newspaper which does not worship at the shrine of home-state congressional seniority, readers must turn to the Wall Street Journal....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 17, 2014....

"So if you hear of ‘secret’ trips or backroom dealing, rest assured that we aren’t straying from the process.  We’re doing our job to keep diplomacy alive and keeping all options open...."

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 11, 2014....

Here is a complete list of the bills under consideration for Third Reading before Crossover....

The governor plans to push for a waiver....

"Let's hope the legislative carping isn't a sign that teachers are trying to worm out of evaluations they agreed to in order to get pay raises, just as they once before reneged on drug tests...."

In Honolulu, unofficial tent cities are now set up in strategic locations designed to pressure the tourism industry, the Chinatown community, the Korean community, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Honolulu Council debate over Housing First....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 4, 2014....

...If you are not politicized, you are not Hawaiian....

The life of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole tells the story of how Hawaiians came to be Hawaiian-Americans.

Like price fixing, 'thought leadership' is a pretty good gig...until you get caught....

the Hawaii Republican State Committee voted 37-8 with one abstention to elect former US Rep Pat Saiki Party Chair....

The hearing—with decision making to follow--is set for March 20, 2014 at 9:35am in the State Capitol Auditorium....

...IDG officers and associates gave over $10,000 to Malama Solomon for her tightly contested 2012 primary race against Lorraine Inouye....

Topping off the irony, Rep Rhoads also introduced HB2577  which would ban indoor tobacco smoking in public housing....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 7, 2014....

The post-Obamacare increase averages out to an additional 1,174 persons applying for Medicaid each month since October 1.... 

Cults are known for their ability to draw in devotees and make them worship the leader.  In a recent poll, Tulsi Gabbard’s popularity was tops among Hawaii politicians at 76%....

Brower mentions “carts” ten times, and suggests his attacks were part of an effort to "create a better society."

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The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 28, 2014....

Even more interesting, the breakdown on Djou’s support is completely inverted from the traditional Republican pattern....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 21, 2014.....

It is expected to cost consumers $800 per year in higher food prices and many products could simply disappear from Hawaii shelves, but SB2521 is on the move thanks to Senator Clayton Hee....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 14, 2014....

...what was left of Ansaldo Breda would turn into a "bad company" to be gradually liquidated....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 7, 2014....

Watch the Senate committee system falling apart....

...the conservatives in this survey may be disproportionally counted among the non-voters....

...the Hawaii Attorney General argued that even if voters were tricked in 1998, they had no say in their family structure and that the legislature and governor were within their rights to force a new one on the people....

Hundreds of young people turned out Saturday for a ‘March for Life’ commemorating the 41st Anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision....

...here is a selection of some of the most interesting ingredients included in "organic" foods and another list of synthetic pesticides and other substances allowed for use in "organic" crop and livestock production....

...Jeff Davis has filled papers with the Campaign Spending Commission to form a campaign committee to run for governor....

Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the only candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is an assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

State retirees should be afraid, be very afraid....

...the bleeding baby whales are left to suffer an unknown fate in shark-infested waters....

"Aloha and mahalo e Sanford Dole for registering with Kana'iolowalu"

...7,000 well-paid waiters are being played against 7,000 underpaid dishwashers....

...premium payers will get a new round of cancellation letters starting this September, just in time for the elections....

...BU13 salary schedules reveal a base salary scale which will top out at $148,704....