Kauai County

KIUC’s rates decreased 1.6 percent since 2008. By comparison, rates on Oahu have risen 21.5 percent over the same period....

...since 2000, Matsumoto has been charged with 98 felonies, 51 misdemeanors and four petty misdemeanors. He’s been convicted of 10 felonies and one petty misdemeanor violation; 38 felonies and 46 misdemeanors were dismissed. Matsumoto awaits trial on 50 felonies....

The public and the employees were told that county offices needed to be shut down because the county was in financial difficulty. This was not true....

Expenditure growth has repeatedly outpaced revenue gains, resulting in recurring operating deficits and drawdowns in fund balance....

Kobayashi cited examples of physical abuse, exploitation, and barbaric security measures at Maui Pineapple Company's historic pineapple plantations and old worker dormitories where the Thai workers were forced to live and other abuses throughout Hawaii.

David Iha, Teofilo "Phil" Tacbian and Peter Yukimura have been reelected to the board of directors of Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative.....

The value of Pilaa beach, bay and reef includes use value, option value, commodity value, existence value, bequest value, cultural values, including value to indigenous people, and intrinsic value....

FLASHBACK Oct 18, 2013: “We urge you to allow Bill 2491 to become law.  We will be there to defend it.”....

...the creator of the "Lifetime Stand," a prison rehabilitation program that stresses work ethic, perseverance, discipline and personal responsibility....

...a “glaring problem” with Mr. Asquith’s motion was that it did not include the PUC....

The Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) Nominating Committee has confirmed 11 candidates for its Board of Directors election on March 8, 2014....

Must watch video ....

It is amazing how pages like this will have such vile, hateful commentary and then always end it with truth, love, peace, and unity!....

Last night I got a tweet from Christy Demuth, biotech opponent on Kauai.  She's always a delight.  She says that she's found the link between me and Monsanto....

Barca says. "For me, I can’t sit here and do that. It’s like seeing someone beat up a chick in a parking lot or something. Me, I’m going to go and grab them and tell them, ‘Brah, you can’t do that over here.’ Basically these guys are committing murder on our natural resources. I’m not going to let someone do that to my home. I can’t sit around and let that happen. It’s so personal to me because it’s in my backyard. There’s just no way."

...results of a feasibility study on the proposed adolescent residential drug treatment and healing facility are now available online....

Correcting the misinformation being spread by special interest groups about how we farm....

The court concluded that the Charter amendment adopted by the voters was, in reality, a prohibited zoning initiative....

...no trace of the chemical was ever found in our Waimea-Kekaha water system, and there has been no detection (Countywide) since 2005....

Numerous truckloads of rocks with an estimated value of around $6,000 were allegedly removed from the property between June 27 and July 4, 2011, and were reportedly to be used to build a rock wall on Sagum’s property....

...Five of his brothers and sisters opposed his appointment and not only communicated with the Mayor and county council to voice their thoughts, but filed a complaint with the attorney disciplinary board....

Under the agreement, The Garden Island, with a total average circulation of 9,509 daily and 8,413 on Sundays, will continue to be published Monday through Friday and Sunday.

Qualified KIUC Members may be nominated no later than 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 1, 2013....

HEWA: we do NOT endorse this unexpected news that OHA is giving us, Makaweli Poi, away to a random group we never heard of before....

The managers who made this year’s list of America’s Worst Bosses were named in workplace lawsuits filed by their employees ....

...providing safe and reliable utility service at a reasonable cost, through the development of Resource Plans and Scenarios....

“You may have noticed, I do like to fly under the radar.” -- Pierre Omidyar, 2009

One of the subplots of the South Park episode is about residents of Kaua'i claiming to be natives of Hawaii when they're just longtime residents who got there before the more recent tourists, whom they despise....

The owners want to build homes, which is consistent with the zoning but which cannot be built on a 1/2 acre parcel designated "Park."

Wind project impacts “may be worse than climate change,” says UK Environment Minister....

Keopuolani Park (corner of Kaahumanu and Kanaloa) on Sunday, November 11th between 11:30AM and 1:30PM....

Uncle Sam asks Kanoho why his electric bill is higher when he's using less power:
My electric bill. It went from 250 dollars to 400, and we didn't change nothin'.

The proposed wind project largely serves to limit the amount of imported biofuel used to meet the RPS (so we can make the numbers add up)....

Hawai'i Free Press endorsements on State and County ballot initiatives....

...the Company has 45 days from receipt of the notification to submit a plan to the NYSE to demonstrate its ability to achieve compliance with the continued listing standards within 18 months....

Maui county does participate in the poorly funded state pension plan. Its other post-employment benefit (OPEB) liability is also large....

The ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI, will actually begin at 9:30 p.m. Hawaii time....

...including more than $8.1 million for renovation, upgrade and expansion projects at Maui Memorial....

...It's been almost two years since I Aloha Molokai was formed to fight the big industrial wind turbines....

• False reporting and double reporting of campaign expenditures including expenditures of public funds.
• Failure to properly report a campaign loan
• Accepting a contribution in excess of the $2000 legal limit

The developer touts the proposed resort as "the most environmentally and culturally responsible visitor-oriented project ever to be proposed in the state."

County Attorneys barred planning inspectors from enforcing the law against Councilmember Tim Bynum for alleged zoning violations in order to influence Bynum’s vote on Mayor Bernard P. Carvalho Jr.’s TVR bill....

"One of our primary missions is to explore every option for converting the plantation from a sugar farm, into a bio-energy farm...."

A prosecutor cannot use a criminal prosecution against a political rival in an attempt to intimidate him.... Incredibly, they made tape recordings discussing their plans and they joked on those tapes about committing perjury if ever caught.

...she slipped and fell on uncleaned floor of the defendant’s fast food restaurant...$5,670,000....

"These business owners are looking for our government to restore much-needed certainty and confidence in our nation’s economy,” said Governor Lingle