"The headline could have been Schatz Launches Re-election Campaign, Puts Campaign Manager on Congressional Payroll.”

We are also cognizant of related 2011 - 13 contract disputes being undertaken by other Hawaii public employee unions, including several ongoing arbitrations....

• House: Establishing the Rules of the House
• House: Hurricane Sandy Relief – Suspension

As part of the campaign, DCCA has launched www.HFIC.Hawaii.gov....

“There is buzz that folks are going to get primaried, there’s no question about that.”

Hawaii's largest oil refinery is closing, precisely as we predicted it would....

He is a member of the Hawaii Bankers Association, Financial Services Roundtable, Hawaii Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii’s Military Affairs Council

If enrollment in consumer-directed plans increased to 50 percent, there would be an annual savings of $57 billion....

Wind subsidies cost $52.48 per one million watt hours generated....nuclear power costs $3.10. Hydropower only costs 84 cents and natural gas costs only 63 cents.

"Hawaii is making progress on strengthening its education policies" -- StudentsFirst

Overall prevalence of self-reported falling asleep while driving during the previous 30 days was 4.2%. State-level prevalence ranged from 2.5% in Oregon to 6.1% in Texas (Hawaii was 2nd at 5.7%).

The deal that Congress and President Obama struck that finally—but only partially—avoided the fiscal cliff resulted in seven tax increases.  Those hikes combined with six tax increases from Obamacare....

Previously appointed to the House in January 2009 to complete the unexpired term of the late Bob Nakasone.... 

 “Any action that weakens the protectionism of the Jones Act will ultimately be to the long-term benefit US shipping.”

Uncle Sam and Kanoho have a talk about the future....

Nearly 51,000 high-school students in 81 cities around the world joined the 2013 Kickoff via live NASA-TV broadcast and webcast....

Oahu will grow taller thanks to strong volcanic forces that lift it up from the bottom of the ocean....

...the Seventeenth Amendment prevents the Hawaii legislature from substantively constraining the Governor’s choices in making a temporary appointment....

Hawaii. Student enrollment increased 2.7 percent while administrators and other non-teaching staff increased 68.9 percent from FY 1992 to FY 2009....

...an audit of HART’s contracts and spending for public relations and public involvement services to determine what service(s) each employee, contractor and subcontractor provides....