“They’ve been in the lead,” said the 1st ABCT commander, Col. James R. Crider. “Now we need to make them independent.”

Effective Feb. 1, 2013, GA payments will be reduced from $319 to $298 per person per month for an estimated 5,537 Hawaii beneficiaries....

Opening enrollment for the University of Hawai‘i System for the spring 2013 semester stands at 55,373 students, a slight decline of 1,303 students, or 2.3 percent, compared to spring 2012....

The Hawaii Supreme Court has accepted certiorari and agreed to review the Intermediate Court of Appeals' unpublished memorandum opinion in Diamond v. Dobbin....

Beginning this month, schools will mail or ask students to bring the surveys home....

To date, one school has successfully applied for funds. Because the school was not awarded the full amount of the carryover, HIDOE has asked USDOE for approval to use the balance of the carryover for ... Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind (HSDB).

Rep Thielen introduced House Bill 9 to repeal the controversial Public Lands Development Corporation....

"VSE was unaware that despite DEI’s military ordnance background, the company had no experience with fireworks disposal.”

...a survey through which we could measure the military-friendly policies enacted at each school....

Many small-business owners haven't yet realized that the way they structure their firm in 2013 could determine their status under the law in a year's time....

Thousands of developed U.S. Forest Service recreation areas have utilized this PPP model successfully for more than 25 years....

“Given the weak track record of federal mental health programs, states should exercise primary responsibility for determining appropriate mental health services, which will entail eliminating restrictions currently imposed by the federal government.”

...the total staff-to-faculty and total staff-to-enrollment ratios for UHM are also consistently and substantially below the averages...

Overall, the $1.40 billion of education-related expenditures attributable to UHM generated $2.45 billion in local business sales, $735 million in employee earnings, $131 million in state tax revenues, and slightly under 20,000 jobs in Hawai‘i in FY2012....

...The Gas Company relies on a single source for its SNG: the Tesoro oil refinery....

“The State informed HSTA that there will be a formal response made at our next bargaining session on January 22."

"If the Legislature cannot achieve this outcome, the possibility of repeal will ensue."

...schools that enter into these contracts and see their electric bills drop will actually get to keep the savings as a result....

Thank God, this body will once again have daily prayer, because if ever there was a time elected officials should call on a higher authority for guidance, it is now.

I hope, first and foremost, that there will be NO new tax burdens thrust upon our citizens … that we will not automatically open the taxpayers’ pocketbooks to every budget request, every new proposal, every capital improvement project....