...The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a paradox on its hands....

...Statewide Effort Underway to Identify Certain Inmates for Release from the Prison Population Amid COVID-19 Concerns....

...More than one in four jobs in Nevada, Hawaii and Wyoming are at risk....

...As part of his supplemental emergency proclamation, Ige suspended the state’s Sunshine Law, which allows public access to the meetings of government bodies. He also suspended the state’s open records law — the Uniform Information Practices Act — which governs access to public records....

...IQ Test: Do you believe that banning these cargoes protects YB workers from Corona Virus?....

...Emergency Bulk Procurement of GeneXpert COVID-19 Testing Kits and Machine for the U.S. territories of American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, as well as the freely associated states of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau....

...Updated Law Authorizes U.S. Treasury to Issue Payments to Guam War Claims Recipients....

...Mayor Victorino presents administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal....

...Reality Check: None of the vaccine tests currently underway involve the use of dead baby parts....

...she went to a residence, threw a rock at a window and started an argument with occupants of the home, which violated a court order--COVID violation becomes a tack-on charge....

...USS Theodore Roosevelt Quarantines Sailors on Guam as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads....

...postponement of mortgage payments for Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL) direct loans and loans assigned to DHHL....

...Hawaii health officials said there have been 4,658 COVID-19 tests completed, all but 379 from private laboratories....

...the first Hawaii case which uses the term "police power"....

...This measure is one of several that the Chamber is proposing to provide relief to local businesses....

...The non-dispatchable nature of these technologies creates operational challenges for system operators....

...written comments must be received from interested parties no later than April 13, 2020....

...time was spent communicating with her former co-workers at the Health Information Management department....

...This petition will be sent to Governor Ige on Thursday, March 26th....

...Six additional COVID-19 cases have been identified since 1200 yesterday and one case has been deleted after correcting a mistaken positive lab test....

...Hawaii 2nd highest taxes paid per capita....

"...On March 17, 2020, we mailed letters to all affected individuals...."

"...Petitioners and Opposing Intervenors claim broadly that their beliefs should give them veto power over any proposes land use on Mauna Kea. The law does not support that view...."

...Green Ouster Related to COVID-19 screening of Senators?....

...This includes 10 new cases on Oʻahu, bringing that island total to 58; 3 new cases among US non-Hawaiʻi residents; and one pending case, which officials have yet to classify....

...Ige’s Health Emergency Declaration waves many of the state laws ensuring public participation, transparency, and accountability.    

The implicit understanding is that elected officials will utilize these extraordinary powers only to combat the Corona Virus pandemic in Hawaii.

It only took two days to find out....

“...I replaced CIP funding for renovations and improvements to the Blaisdell Center and Ala Moana Park with funding for rapid housing, mobile hygiene centers, addiction rehabilitation facilities, mental health treatment facilities and quarantine and medical triage facilities...."

...what a difference a week makes....

... Our product will take between six to nine months to be ready for clinical trials ....

...Media personnel are amongst the exempted 'Essential Businesses'....

...The Department of Health reports the person passed away on March 20th and suffered from multiple underlying health conditions....

...As of 22 March 2020, 27 cases of COVID-19 have been reported by Guam....

... VIDEO: The March 22, 2020, Imua TMT Panel Discussion on TMT YouTube ....

...Hawaii County is still going its own way....

...Hawaii ranks 17th for Medicaid spending, 46th for quality....

...Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, began analyzing the number of COVID-19 cases worldwide in January and correctly calculated that China would get through the worst of its coronavirus outbreak long before many health experts had predicted....

"...The only way to contain community spread of the virus is to impose a shelter-in-place directive upon all persons in Hawaii...."

...Airline to focus on returning guests home ahead of Hawai‘i’s March 26 quarantine....

...islandwide nighttime curfew beginning Friday, March 20. The curfew will be in effect from 9 p.m. through 5 a.m. daily until further notice....

...all individuals are ordered to stay at their place of residence startyng Mon March 23, 2020 at 430pm....

...Mayor Victorino announces Public Health Emergency Rules for Maui County....

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

...Governor Ige’s 14-day quarantine announcement may feel like a health precaution, but it's really a tourism marketing plan....

...Why is this latest effort by Hawaiian officials political suicide? Because ……. Sher Edling....

...Another eight cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Hawai’i as of noon Sunday, state officials said....

...the JSC is extending the application period for one Supreme Court vacancy and is now considering a retention petition for Chief Justice Recktenwald.... 

...When do Legislators know that enough is enough?  -- When somebody — or preferably LOTS of somebodies — tells them....

“...With the majority of Hawaiʻi’s COVID-19 cases linked to travel, it is critical that we further mitigate the spread of the virus by both residents and visitors who are coming from out-of-state....”

...21% of Hawaii businesses will lose more than $10,000 a day if they stop operations....

...Most Traffic, Criminal, and Civil Cases Postponed Until After April 30....